Belarusian Tatar Arabic Alphabetic Manuscripts from the end of the XVIIth to the beginning of the XIXth century from the collection of the British Library and Frantsysk Skaryna Belarusian Library in London

Abstract

A project entitled Belarusian Tatars Arabic Alphabetic Manuscripts from the end of the XVIIth to the beginning of the XXth century addresses some of the issues related study, preservation, conservation and cataloguing of the immensely rich literature of Belarusian Tatars to be found in Belarus in public and private collections. The project was conducted under the guidance of the British Academy during June 2006 in the United Kingdom. Extremely important for realization of project was to visit the British Library and Frantsysk Skaryna Belarusian Library in London, where a number of Tatars manuscripts of XVIII century are kept.