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'Im Wettkampfe mit den Bibliotheken anderer Nationen': Der Erwerb arabischer Handschriftensammlungen an der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin zwischen 1850 und 1900

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Authors: Rauch, Christoph 
Book title: Sammler - Bibliothekare - Forscher: zur Geschichte der orientalischen Sammlungen an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Series: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie Sonderbände
Volume: Sonderband 124
Locality: Frankfurt
Published by Vittorio Klostermann 2022
Pages: 87-150
Language: German
Contents:
This article is part of a volume dealing with the history of the Oriental collections held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library). Christoph Rauch focuses on the actors involved in building the holdings: the collectors of Oriental manuscripts, such as scholars, sales agents and antiquarians, but also librarians, compilers of manuscript catalogues and political decision-makers.
Chapter X. of this article is devoted to Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) who was dependent on the sale of his collections of manuscripts and antiquities to carry out his research in Yemen.
He sold a collection of 23 manuscripts originating from his first trip (October 1882-April 1884) to the then 'Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin' for 2,500 marks. (p. 130) Two and a half years later, the library acquired a further 241 manuscripts for 20,000 marks (p. 133) which Glaser had collected in the course of his second trip to Yemen (April 1885 - February 1886).
The collection from Glaser's third trip (October 1887 - September 1888) was acquired by the British Museum Library for £ 1,350 after the negotiations with Königliche Bibliothek had come to a nought, wheras the manuscripts from Glaser's fourth trip passed into the possession of then 'Hofbibliothek' in Vienna.
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