Mésopotamie, carrefour des cultures. Grandes Heures des manuscrits irakiens (XIIIe–XIXe siècle), Archives nationales - site de Paris, May 20–August 24, 2015

On the occasion of the eighth centenary of the Dominican Order, the Archives nationales presents the exhibition Mésopotamie, carrefour des cultures. Grandes Heures des manuscrits irakiens (XIIIe–XIXe siècle), which traces the history of the Dominican Order in Mesopotamia. The exhibition includes facsimiles of seven manuscripts from the Dominican library in Mosul, which is now housed in Erbil and inaccessible, and thirty comparable manuscripts from French collections and the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana.