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A bibliophile and a qadi: two libraries of oriental manuscripts in Zagreb

The author presents two collections of Oriental manuscripts. The one is stored at the Croatian State Archives, and the other at the National and University Library. The first one belonged to the Austrian nobleman and diplomat, Baron Franz von Ottenfels, and the other to Mustafa Muhibbi, qadi from Sarajevo. Muhibbi and Ottenfels were contemporaries ; they lived at the end of the eighteenth and in the first half of the nineteenth centuries. Von Ottenfels died in Vienna in 1851, Muhibbi in Sarajevo in 1854. As for their libraries, they were eventually transferred to Zagreb. The author presents their collections attempting to show diverse possibilities of approach to them, that is, taking into consideration the specific value of a collection formed by a person who did not belong to Oriental civilisation in comparison to the value of a library owned by a man who was brought up and educated within the confines of the Ottoman culture.

Arabic-script manuscripts; libraries; bibliophile; Muhibbi; Ottenfels; Zagreb

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