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Leiden University Library has a worldfamous
research collection of Middle Eastern
Manuscripts. Its core collection consists of
volumes brought together by, among others,
the Leiden Orientalists Joseph Justus Scaliger
(d. 1609) and Jacobus Golius (d. 1667). Included
in the Scaliger collection are about a dozen
manuscripts which belonged to Franciscus
Raphelengius (d. 1597). These collections
consist of extremely rare, sometimes unique,
manuscripts.
Brill and Leiden University Library have joined forces to digitize the Arabic manuscripts from three of the library's core collections, now published online under the title Pioneer Orientalists: The Manuscript Collections of Scaliger, Raphelengius and Golius from the Leiden University Library. The publication consists of 267 Arabic manuscripts in 303 volumes, amounting to 109.517 pages, in full-colour, images. Key Features: - These are the oldest core collections of one of Europe's top repositories of Oriental manuscripts - Originally collected by Franciscus Raphelengius (d. 1597), Joseph Justus Scaliger (d. 1609), and Jacobus Golius (d. 1667) - 30 manuscripts were restored as part of this project - Filmed on site at the Leiden University Library - Almost 110.000 high-resolution scans in full colour of unique and rare Arabic manuscripts - The collection includes two manuscript scrolls, each c. 5 meters long - Downloadable files - Metadata in English per individual text (also for miscellanies) - References to Brockelmann's GAL The transliteration that is used in the title list and the online descriptions is based on Voorhoeve's Handlist as explained in the following table:
NB: The article al- becomes an-, as-, etc. where appropriate. |
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