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Show T H E L I B R A R Y OF C O N G R E SS W A S H I N G T O N 25, D. C. Information Office -•• Press Release No. 777 For IMMEDIATE publication LECTURE ON MOUNT SINAI MANUSCRIPTS WILL BE PRESENTED BY NOTED EGYPTIAN SCHOLAR AT THE LIBRARY OF GONGRESS Aziz Suryal Atiya, Professor of Medieval History at Farouk I University, Alexandria, Egypt, will speak on "The Arabic Treasures of St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai" on Monday evening, March 19, in the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress. The lecture, to begin at 8:30 p.nu, will precede the formal opening of an exhibit of photographic reproductions of Arabic manuscripts which the Library recently microfilmed at the monastery. Entitled "The Development of Arabic Script and Signatures of Sultans," the exhibit will remain on view in the First Floor Exhibition Hall at the Library until April 1. A leading Egyptian historian and a medievalist of international reputation, Dr* Atiya formerly occupied the chair of medieval history at the University of Bonn and taught at the Universities of London, Liverpool and Cairo• He is well known to scholars in his field as the editor of several important medieval texts published in England, Germany, Holland and Egypt, and as the author of The Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1938), The Crusade of Nieopolis (London, 193A-), and Egypt and Aragon: Embassies and Diplomatic Correspondence between 1300 and 1330 £• 2» (Leipzig, 1938). He is now completing an assignment as Special Consultant in the Library of Congress, where he has edited the microfilms of Arabic manuscripts made on Mount Sinai and has compiled two lists of them. The exhibit will consist of photographic reproductions of the Mount Sinai scrolls carefully selected to trace the evolution of Arabic calligraphy, from the ninth century to the present, in an unbroken sequence derived from dated material. Specimens reproduced from the scrolls and more - |
