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BnF Arabe 328 consists of six parts, labelled a–f. Of these, parts (a) and (b) were later recognized as having formed part of a single original manuscript. BnF Arabe 328(a), 56 leaves (foll. 1–56), with additional leaves held by the Vatican Library , the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art and the National Library of Russia . [ 1 ]
The BnF Museum or Museum of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, formerly known as the Cabinet des Médailles (French pronunciation: [kabinɛ de medaj]), is a significant art and history museum in Paris.
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (French: [biblijɔtɛk nɑsjɔnal də fʁɑ̃s]; 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, Richelieu and François-Mitterrand. It is the national repository of all that is published in France.
Between 1880 and 1914 the library acquired a copy of every periodical published in Paris. In 1934 it became a department of the Bibliothèque nationale. The library was once known as the Library of Monsieur, and Balzac was once a reader there; in the early 20th century it was still accommodated in the former residence of the Grand Master. [1]
The Saint-Sever Beatus, also known as the Apocalypse of Saint-Sever (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 8878), is a Romanesque Illuminated manuscript from the 11th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The manuscript was made at Saint-Sever Abbey , then in the Duchy of Gascony , under the direction of Gregory of Montaner, abbot between 1028 and 1072.
Queen. The legend regarding the set states that these chessmen were given as a gift to Charlemagne by Caliph Harun al-Rashid, [3] who was an avid chess player. The fact that the set displays elephants instead of bishops and chariots instead of rooks denotes a form of the Perso-Arabic game known as Shatranj, itself coming from the original Indian Chaturanga (which compound word means the 'Four ...
[1] The collection contains almost 400 manuscripts. Athanase collected more than 300 manuscripts (probably 358) personally. After Séguier's death, all this collection was inherited by his grandson, Henri-Charles de Coislin (1664–1732), bishop of Metz. [2] He gave it to the Benedictine monks of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. Bernard de ...