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List of Contributors

Introduction, Alastair Hamilton

1. Les frères Vecchietti, diplomates, érudits et aventuriers, Francis Richard
2. Between Author and Library Shelf: The Intriguing History of Some Middle Eastern Manuscripts Acquired by Public Collections in the Netherlands prior to 1800, Jan Schmidt
3. John Selden, the Levant and the Netherlands in the History of Scholarship, G.J. Toomer
4. The Travel Notebooks of John Greaves, Zur Shalev
5. Peiresc, the Levant and the Mediterranean, Peter N. Miller
6. ‘To Divest the East of all its Manuscripts and all its Rarities’. The Unfortunate Embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville, Alastair Hamilton
7. Ancient Languages and New Science. The Levant in the Intellectual Life of Robert Boyle, Charles G.D. Littleton
8. From Istanbul to London? Albertus Bobovius’ Appeal to Isaac Basire, Hannah Neudecker
9. A Lutheran Translator for the Quran. A Late Seventeenth-Century Quest, Alastair Hamilton
10. Patrick Russell and the Republic of Letters in Aleppo, Maurits H. van den Boogert
11. The Sultan’s Answer to the Medici Press? Ibrahim Müteferrika’s Printing House in Istanbul, Maurits H. van den Boogert

Index Nominum

About the Author

Alastair Hamilton is Professor Emeritus of the History of the Radical Reformation at the University of Amsterdam, the C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at Leiden University, and the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute.
Maurits van den Boogert is researcher at Leiden University, and is currently working on Ottoman miscellaneous manuscripts.
Bart Westerweel is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern English Literature at Leiden University.

Reviews

Dieser Sammelband weist "ein weiteres Mal die herausragende Qualitat des Jahrbuchs fur Fruhneuzeit-Studien, Intersections, nach. [...] Er ist "ein wesentlicher Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Fruhen Neuzeit." Kai Bremer, Zentrum fur Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin. In: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 87, No. 3 (2007), pp. 419-420.