New blog post of the Gotha Research Library: International Conference on Early Arabic Printing

From 22 to 23 June 2023, the ERC project TYPARABIC convened its second international conference at the Gotha Research Library, entitled “Spread the Word. Books Printed for Arabic-Speaking Christians in the 18th Century.” Participants explored historical, cultural, literary, material, and artistic dimensions of printing in Arabic in the early modern period. The Gotha Research Library preserves the largest collection of such printed works worldwide because of the book acquisitions made by the natural scholar and traveler Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1767–1811) on behalf of Duke Ernest II (1745–1804) and his son August of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1772–1822).