Special Collections
National Library of Finland
Arabica
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Analogue
The Arabica Collection contains works in Arabian, printed in the Russian empire between 1828 and 1917 and received as legal deposit copies.
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Arabica, Persica ja Caucasica korttiluettelossa (opens a new tab)Collection description
The Arabica Collection contains works in Arabian, printed in the Russian empire between 1828 and 1917 and received as legal deposit copies.
The collection includes some 600 titles: Korans, koranic science, classical Arabian literature and textbooks.
The Arabica Collection, together with the library's collections Caucasica, Persica and Turcica, forms an important entity of Islamic literature printed in Russia.
For more information, see Halén, Harry, Handbook of Oriental Collections in Finland. London & Malmö 1977. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Monograph Series 31, s. 268–284.Â
Collection languages
Material type
journals
Books
Ephemera
Newspapers
Accrual status
Completed
Temporal coverage of the collection
the Middle Ages beginning of the modern age modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Main collection
Special CollectionsParent collection
The legal deposit collections from the period of Russian ruleRestrictions of use
Only for Special Collections Reading RoomCatalogue information
Card catalogue made of the collection
More information about cataloguing
An alphabetised card catalogue is available in the Special Collections Reading Room and digitised in Doria.
Collection sizes
600
volumes
Parallel collections
TurcicaSignum
H Arab-
Provenance
The collection contains works in Arabian printed in the Russian empire between 1828 and 1917 and received as legal deposit copies.
Collector
Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto