Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 1: Pioneer Orientalists
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Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 1: Pioneer Orientalists - The Manuscript Collections of Scaliger, Raphelengius and Golius from Leiden University Libraries
Leiden University Library has a world famous collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts. Its core collection is brought together by, among others, the Leiden Orientalists Joseph Justus Scaliger and Jacobus Golius. Included in the Scaliger collection are about a dozen manuscripts which belonged to Franciscus Raphelengius. These collections consist of extremely rare, sometimes unique, manuscripts.
Editor: Arnoud Vrolijk
Number of titles: 267 manuscripts
Languages used: Arabic
E-ISBN: 978 90 04 22319 6
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Leiden University Library has a world famous collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts. Its core collection is brought together by, among others, the Leiden Orientalists Joseph Justus Scaliger and Jacobus Golius. Included in the Scaliger collection are about a dozen manuscripts which belonged to Franciscus Raphelengius. These collections consist of extremely rare, sometimes unique, manuscripts.
Editor: Arnoud Vrolijk
Number of titles: 267 manuscripts
Languages used: Arabic
E-ISBN: 978 90 04 22319 6
More information on Brill.com
Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 1: Pioneer Orientalists - The Manuscript Collections of Scaliger, Raphelengius and Golius from Leiden University Libraries
Leiden University Library has a world famous 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.
Leiden University Library has a world famous 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:
ء | ʼ |
l | a; ā |
ب | b |
ت | t |
ث | t |
ج | ǵ |
ح | ḥ |
خ | kh |
د | d |
ذ | d |
ر | r |
ز | z |
س | s |
ش | ś |
ص | ṣ |
ض | ḍ |
ط | ṭ |
ظ | ẓ |
ع | ʻ |
غ | ġ |
ف | f |
ق | q |
ك | k |
ل | l |
م | m |
ن | n |
ه | h |
ة | a; -at in idāfa |
و | ū; -uww-; word final ū |
ى/ي | ī; -ai-; -iyy-; final ī |
NB: The article al- becomes an-, as-, etc. where appropriate.
Location of originals
Leiden University Libraries, Leiden
Leiden University Libraries, Leiden
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Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 1: Pioneer Orientalists, advisor: A. Vrolijk, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012 <http://brc.brill.semcs.net/browse/memo-1-pioneer-orientalists>