Middle Eastern manuscripts online
Subtitle: Pioneer orientalists
By: editor, Arnoud Vrolijk
Contributors: Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609, collector; Golius, Jacobus, 1596-1667, collector
Series: MEMO -- 1; Primary sources; MEMO (Leiden, Netherlands) -- 1.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: ara
ISBN-13: 9789004223196
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts
Other titles: MEMO 1 :; Pioneer orientalists
Description: 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. The publication consists of 267 Arabic manuscripts in 303 volumes, amounting to 109.517 pages, in full-colour, images.
Notes: This resource is available only to current faculty, staff and students of Columbia University.

Content in Arabic with English interface.