Welcome to the general Diamond catalog!

The Diamond general catalog gives access to the resources of its partners, described in the RDA format.

The Partners’ Catalogs

Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies

Cairo, Egypt

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Institute of Arabic Manuscripts

Cairo, Egypt

Website

Giorgio La Pira Library

Palermo, Italy

Website

French Institute of Oriental Archeology

Cairo, Egypt

Website

Leonine Commission

Paris, France

Website

Saint Mark Foundation for Coptic Heritage

Cairo, Egypt

Website

Digital Center for Oriental Manuscripts

Erbil, Iraq

Vatican Apostolic Library

the Vatican City

Website

Dominican Library in Erbil

Erbil, Iraq

Saulchoir Library

Paris, France

Website

Timbuktu Cataloging Service

Cairo, Egypt

The Targeted Catalogs

AlKindi: The written heritage of the Muslim worlds

Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī, who passed away in 866, played a pivotal role as a transmittor. He effectively transmitted Greek philosophy to the emerging Islamic culture by orchestrating collaborations with Syriac monk-translators, which facilitated the development of a scientific vocabulary in the Islamic world.

Albertus: The written heritage of the Western medieval world

Saint Albert the Great, a German Dominican, was the pioneer who first introduced Greek and Arab sciences to the burgeoning European university. His writings encompassed logic, philosophy, and theology, as well as botany, astronomy, and law. He passed away in Cologne in 1280. His most renowned disciple was Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Ignatios: The written heritage of the Eastern Christian world

At the beginning of the second century, Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, was one of the earliest Christian theologians. His writings on the divinity of Christ and the episcopal organization of the Church are universally acknowledged by both Eastern and Western Churches. He met a martyr’s end in Rome.

Maryana: The portal of the Nahḍa

Maryana Marrash (1848‒1919) was a Syrian writer and poet of the Arab Renaissance (al-Nahḍa). She revitalized the tradition of literary salons in the Arab world and was among the first women to publish Arabic poetry in modern times and contribute to Arabic-language daily newspapers.

Acknowledgements

The French National Library

With the support of a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the French National Library subsidized the development of Diamond-ILS between 2020 and 2023. These efforts aimed to facilitate the integration of additional partner libraries into the "Libraries of the East" Project, a thematic online portal hosted on Gallica, the French National Library's digital platform. Within this framework, the Arabic Manuscript Institute in Cairo has been able to catalog microfilms of manuscripts preserved in at-risk libraries in Yemen.