A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library

by David A. King

Book cover: A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library

Extent: 332 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies

Series: Catalogs

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Hardback (Out of print)

(December 1986)

ISBN: 9780936770147

Price: $7.00

Out of stock

The Egyptian National Library (Dab al-Kutub al-Misraya) contains a vast treasury of medieval manuscripts still largely untapped by modern scholarship. Among these are some 2,500 manuscripts relating to the exact sciences, mathematics, and astonomy, which constitute the largest single collection of medieval scientific manuscripts in the world.


  • By (author) David A. King