QNL showcases rare Heritage collection
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Qatar National Library will be hosting a special open day on 18 April for all members of the community to explore a remarkable Heritage collection. The collection includes a rare trove of manuscripts, books, and artefacts documenting a wealth of Arab-Islamic civilisation and human thought.
The International Day for Monuments and Sites is held on 18 April every year and has been established to celebrate the diversity of heritage throughout the world. The day was proposed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites in 1982 and approved by the General Assembly of UNESCO in 1983. This year, libraries, schools, universities and academies around the world will celebrate the history of education across cultures and geographies.
Among the 100,000 works, the collection contains an edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, which was printed in Rome in 1478 and is the oldest printed map showing the name of Qatar or referred to in Latin as ‘Catara’.