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Catalog of the Escorial Library

The significance of the Catalog of the Escorial Library lies in the fame and importance of its Arabic manuscript content, though what was published does not exceed a small number of the Escorial collections. Some of the reviewed Arabic manuscripts are exceptionally rare, since they are the only surviving copies all over the world, such as the autograph of Lubāb al-Muhassil written by the eminent savant Ibn Khaldūn in 752 AH. in Maghribi script.
Number of pages: 858.
Publishing Year: 2002.