Or 15000 1 INVENTORIES OF COLLECTIONS OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS INVENTORY OF THE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN VOLUME MANUSCRIPTS OR ?? OR REGISTERED IN LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN AUGUST AND JUNE COMPIL

INVENTORIES OF COLLECTIONS OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS INVENTORY OF THE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS OF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN VOLUME MANUSCRIPTS OR ?? OR REGISTERED IN LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN AUGUST AND JUNE COMPILED BY JAN JUST WITKAM PROFESSOR OF PALEOGRAPHY AND CODICOLOGY OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD IN LEIDEN UNIVERSITY INTERPRES LEGATI WARNERIANI TER LUGT PRESS LEIDEN C ? Copyright by Jan Just Witkam Ter Lugt Press Leiden The Netherlands The form and contents of the present inventory are protected by Dutch and international copyright law and database legislation All use other than within the framework of the law is forbidden and liable to prosecution All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced translated stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without prior written permission of the author and the publisher First electronic publication November Latest update August ? Copyright by Jan Just Witkam Ter Lugt Press Leiden The Netherlands CPREFACE The arrangement of the present volume of the Inventories of Oriental manuscripts in Leiden University Library does not di ?er in any speci ?c way from the volumes which have been published earlier For the sake of brevity I refer to my prefaces in those volumes A few essentials my be repeated here Not all manuscripts mentioned in the present volume were viewed by autopsy but many were The sheer number of manuscripts makes this impossible At a later stage this may be achieved but trying to achieve this at the present stage of inventorizing would seriously hamper the progress of the present project When a manuscript was not inspected this can be seen from a simple typographical device Whenever the indication of the shelf-mark is put between round brackets I have not or not extensively or su ?ciently inspected the manuscript and its entry in the inventory is based mostly or entirely on secondary sources be they published or not These have of course always been indicated When the shelf-mark is put between square brackets and preceded by an asterisk this means that I have had the manuscript in my hands at least once but probably more often and that the description contains elements that can only be seen in the original manuscript Such autopsy does not mean that I am automatically the author of all information given under that particular class-mark The basic elements for each entry of the present inventory are class-mark language s details of physical description survey of the contents provenance location on the shelf Depending on the nature of the material exceptions and divergences are made from this strict arrangement The collective provenance of a series of manuscripts may be concentrated into a short text preceding that series without being repeated under each class- mark I end with an important note Although the inventories which I am publishing here contain descriptions of public and private collections which will no doubt pro ?t of the

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