Here’s An Article on a small sample of texts from the Haidara library is on view at the Library of Congress.
The delicate pages were not bound, but stacked and stored in tooled-leather cases. Documents on display, selected from some 23 books brought to the Library of Congress to be microfilmed, include works on astronomy, mathematics, Islamic law, religion, and business ethics.
It is an unprepossessing exhibit, and like most exhibits of documents, there’s something inert about pages of old script lying under glass. The collection, however, is anything but inert, and it is at the center of great scholarly excitement.
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