CatCBUA: Union Catalogue of Andalusian University Libraries

Arabic manuscripts in the libraries of McGill University: Union Catalogue

bark". Dietrich provides eleven notes to Ibn al-Baitar's commentary and, as he does in all entries, attempts to identify the plant in modern nomenclature. In this instance, however, Dietrich says, "The plant's identification is very doubtful, perhaps impossible to know". And, he references his discussion of the plant in his Dioscurides triumphans. The reverse happens as well. As an illustration...

Union Catalogue of Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts in the Libraries of Hyderabad

work needs separate and special study.' Though in sympathy with this decision one cannot help regretting it, for few are in so good a position to make comment on Hunter's work than the present Curator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. In the result we are given an account of Hunter's life made vivid, unbiassed and authentic by so frequently using his own words to describ...

University Libraries

Libraries are a critical component in the functioning of a University. With students, faculty, and staff using the libraries, it has both direct and indirect impacts on the lives of thousands of people. The libraries, just by its core function, have been contributing to intellectual sustainability – a “connecting thread” for the sustenance of life. It is essential for the libraries to become su...

Towards a Union Catalogue of Encoded Manuscript Descriptions

The recent work of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in developing an XML standard for manuscript description has provided an opportunity to explore methods of making such information more widely available through a web-based system. While traditional web database applications built on relational systems such as MySQL are well-suited for web delivery of data-centric, tabular information, they ...

A catalogue of medical incunabula in Edinburgh libraries