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Meet the People behind the Exhibition on Video!


Videostill, Digitisation
Digitisation
Photography and Postproduction
Videostill, 99 copies of free thought
"Seminarum"
99 copies of free thinking
Videostill, Hidden in papyri
A Jigsaw Puzzle made of Papyri
World Chronicle
Videostill, Against the time
Against the Time
The Leipzig Mahzor
Videostill, Just like the father
Like Father,
like Son

Bach Manuscript
Videostill, Between chapter and verse
Surah & Verse
Islamic
Book Culture

Videostill, Totally fascinating...
Totally fascinated...
Interviews
Videostill, I am working on...
I am working on...
Interviews
Videostill, The Leipzig treasure house
Leipzig Treasure House
Interviews
Videostill, I am interested in on...
I am interested in...
Interviews


Check out (and download) some Images!

Medical illustration
Medical illustration,
1450
organ concerto
Planet Disk
15th century

Homer
Homer,
12th century manuscript
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sketch,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Saint George
Saint George,
parchment, around 1600
J. H. F. von Autenrieth
sketch,
J. H. F. von Autenrieth


Catalog

Check out the Catalog!

The catalog with 206 pages and 160 color images, over 100 of them full-page, contains also an chronolgy of Leipzig University and 13 short essays. They focus on knowledge about world religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), four continents (Africa, America, Asia, Europe), and some disciplines (astronomy, medicine, botany, music).

The catalog in German is on sale for EUR 24,80 (EUR 20 for visitors of the exhibition); the American edition will be out in late August for 40 USD. The catalog is exclusively available in New York at the Grolier Club, and in Houston at the main building of the Houston Public Library.

Have a look into the catalog! (PDF)