august 2007
at the daar almakhTuutaat opposite the great mosque in sana'a. the size of the manuscript collection well exceeds 10,000 -- a great deal of which hasn't yet been catalogued. the collection is the location where a german codicologist and qur'anic scholar discovered an early qur'an that varied slightly from the edition we have today. the differences are so small -- only an expert would be able to detect the differences -- yet these slight variations have been the continued subject of academic and religious contention in yemen.
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almudir showing us the different tools used to restore the manuscripts. il instituto culturale del veneto is responsible for the restoration of the manuscript collection as well as the great mosque.
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more restoration tools.
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to vacuum manuscipts.
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