Dear Dr. Wakefield,
The book appears to be a mystery. Mouton used to be a Dutch
publisher before it merged with Walter de Gruyter of Berlin. I
checked the 'Brinkman's cumulatieve catalogus', the Dutch national
bibliography, for the years 1975-1977, but the book you mention is
not there. Neither does the Royal Library at the Hague possess a
copy. There is no legal deposit in the Netherlands, but most
publishers voluntarily donate a copy of every book to the Royal
Library. No library in the Netherlands holds a complete set of the
Near and Middle East Monograph Series, published by Mouton.
I doubt if any Dutch library would have bought a copy if the book had
been available. Most libraries have either the Italian original or
the French translation, published by Klincksieck in 1968.
Best wishes,
Arnoud Vrolijk
Leiden University Library
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I wonder whether anyone can confirm that the following was NOT published:
>
> The literature of the Turks, 1. Translated by K(athleen).R.F. Burrill. The
> Hague : Mouton, 1976. (Near and Middle East Monograph series, 3)
>
> This citation appears in R.M. Savory (ed.), Introduction to Islamic
> civilisation, Cambridge University Press, 1976, page 195, but I have not
> been able to find a biliographical record on the usual databases. Kathleen
> Burrill's work was (is ?) an English translation of Alessio Bombaci, Storia
> della letteratura turca dall'antico impero di Mongolia all'odierna Turchia
> (Milan, 1956).
>
> Any assistance will be gratefully received.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
>
> Colin Wakefield
> Senior Assistant Librarian
> Department of Oriental Books
> Bodleian Library
> Oxford OX1 3BG
> UK
>
>
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