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We now have confirmation that the largest Iraqi MSS collection, in  what was known as the Saddam Manuscripts Library in Baghdad, is safe.  It contains more than 40,000 Arabic, Turkish, Persian &#38; Kurdish MSS, including the collections formerly in the Iraq Museum as well as  many other private and mosque collections. [...] At the same time, there have been press reports that significantparts of the collections in the National Library and archives werealso saved from the fire and looting.Geoffrey Roper in H-TURKMore messages on this topic see in the Iraqcrisis Mailinglist Archives.