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After nearly 50 years of obscurity, a large collection of rare manuscripts in the basement of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library has found new life as the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) and the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) agreed upon …

[Read more...] about Cataloguing an Archive in a Pandemic – The Progress and Development of the Esplin Arabic Manuscript Collection

In 1973, David Esplin, then associate chief librarian of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, purchased from Sulaiman’s Book Shop in Beirut, Lebanon, a collection of almost 1,200 manuscripts. These texts were primarily in Arabic and from the 19th …

[Read more...] about The Esplin Arabic Manuscript Projects: The History and the Future