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 Unique copies of antique scripts, i. a. in cuneiform writing on stone or clay (Mon.script.cun. = Monumenta scripturae cuneiformis), hieroglyphic manuscripts (Mon.script.hierogl. = Monumenta scripturae hieroglyphicae), clay fragments with writing on them (Ostr. = Ostraca), several hundred ancient Sabaean wooden sticks from Yemen (Mon.script.sab. = Monumenta scripturae Sabaicae) and an asphalt board (Mon.script.div. = Monumenta scripturarum diversarum).
 
Literature:
Peter Stein: The inscribed wooden sticks of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich,
in: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 33 (2003), S. 267-274
 
Stefan Weniger: More Sabaic minuscle texts from Munich,
in: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 32 (2002), S. 217-223
 
Stefan Weniger: Two sticks with ancient South Arabian inscriptions,
in: Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 31 (2001), S. 241-248