Helga Rebhan: The Oriental Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506-1557): Orientalist, Diplomat and Book Collector

- 19,500 manuscripts - 600,000 imprints in Middle Eastern and Asian languages

Duke Albrecht V. of Bavaria (1528-1570)

Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506-1557)

1558 Foundation of the Munich Court Library

Widmanstetter‘s arms

The New Testament in Syriac Vienna 1555 (Rar. 155)

Nuremberg Koran 1543 (Res/4 A.or. 1590)

Widmanstetter‘s library - 269 Manuscripts -- 136 Hebrew -- 49 Arabic -- 15 Pers., Turk., Syriac Armenian, Ethiopian - 1000-1500 Printed books

-- 8 Hebrew incunabula! -- 150 Hebrew imprints

• 1527 Teaches Classical Philology in Turin • 1529 Meets Teseo Ambrogio (1469-1540), Syriac studies • 1530 Coronation of Charles V. in Bologna • Beginning of his Arabic studies / Diego López Zúňiga (1470-1531)

Coronation of Charles V. Bologna 1530

Napoli

Late 1530 Naples Appointed to the chair of Greek Kabbalistic education by Jewish scholars (Samuel Abarbanel, Rabbi Dattilus) Friendship with Girolamo Seripando (Hieronymus Seripandus) (1492/93-1563)

Ibn Yaḥya, Yosef ben Daṿid: Perush ḥamesh megilot, Bologna, 1538 (2 A.hebr. 97)

Egidio da Viterbo (1469-1532) Eliyahu Bahur: Masoretische Konkordanz Cod.hebr. 74

Roma Giralomo Seripando 1493-1563

Zohar Roma, 1536 Cod.hebr. 217

Augustino Gustiniani 1470-1536

Polyglot Psalter, Genoa 1516 Cod.arab. 920

1524

Armenian breviary and missal, Monastery Mecop‘, 1427 und 1432 (Cod.armen. 6)

Library of Lacantius Ptolemaeus

Daniel Bomberg 1470/80-1549

Venezia

Biblia hebraica Venezia, Bomberg, 1517

Elias Levita: Sefer masoret ha-masoret, Venezia, Bomberg, 1538

Letter by Elias Levita to Widmanstetter, 1538

Shelomoh ibn Gabirol: Collection of aphorisms Italy, Soncino, 1484 Rar. 1229

The first Arabic printed book: Kitāb Ṣalāt as-sawāʿī, Fano 1514

Rar. 1348

Instruction for the production of an astrolabe Constantinople, late 15th c. (Cod.hebr. 36)

Ibn-Abi-Suhula: Collection of fables, Germany, c. 1450 (Cod.hebr. 107)

Ya‘akov Ben El‘azar: Collection of fables, Italy, 13th c., (Cod.hebr. 207)

Koran, Sevilla, 1226/7, Cod.arab. 1

Princely Koran: Cod.arab. 2,3, Morocco, Fes? 1306

Koran with marginal notes Játiva near Valencia, 1517

Cod.arab. 7

Cod.arab. 7

Ḥadīth Collections , North Africa, 15. c. and 1468

Cod.arab. 113 Cod.arab. 116

Sa‘adiah Ga’on: Arabic Psalms and commentary in Hebrew script, Spain, 13./14. c., Cod.arab. 236

Galen’s commentary on Hippocrates North Africa or Spain, 1079 Cod.arab. 802

Firman of Süleyman the Magnificent to King Ferdinand I., Istanbul, 1530

Firman of Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pascha to King Ferdinand I., Istanbul, 1530

al-Bukhārī: Ḥadīth-Collection North Africa 15. c., Cod.arab. 114

Widmestadius וידמיסטאדיוס

Syriac Dictionary Latin, Arabic, Syriac, partially in Greek, Vienna 1553-55, Cod.syr. 1

Syriacae linguae … Vienna 1555 (Res/4 L.as. 283 e)