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.
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