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Manuscripts of the Middle East. An Introduction and a Program.by Jan Just Witkam 5

Source Materials for the History of the Middle Eastin the General State Archives (A.R.A.) of the Netherlands in The Hasue.

by Alexander H. de Groot 8

Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624) on the Value of the Arabic Lansua-se.TranslatedJrom the Latin by Robert Jones I5

New Manuscript Findings from Indian Libraries, b1, Hans Duiber )6

The Use of Kablkaj in Arabic Manuscripts, by Adam Gacek 49

The Arabic Fragments in the Cambridge Genizah Collections.by Geoffiey Khan 54

Rediscovered after More Than Three Centuries;Pieter van den Broecke's Original Resolutieboec,k

Concerning Dutch Trade in North-West India, Persia and Southern Arabia.by C.G. Brouwer 61

Karaitic and Rashi Manuscripts Sold at Sotheby's Auction, June 26th 19E-1.as Compared to the Holdings of the Leiden University Librarl.

by A.G. P. Jonson 78

Ali ibn al-Gazzar, Kitab Qam' at-Waiin fi pomm al-BorrcTiln.Facsimile Edition of MS Leiden Or. 814 (12), Presented bt,Jan Just lt ' irkunt 5b

In Memoriam August Jan Wil lem Huisman (1917-1983),by S.A. Bonebakker 100

Wolfgang Voigt (191 1-1982)and the Cataloguing of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany.

by Barbara Flemming 103

Dieter George (1935-1985). An Obituory Note by Klaus Schtrctr- 105

A Select Bibliography of Arabic Language PublicationsConcerning Arabic Manuscripts, b1, Adam Gacek 106

The Union Catalogue of Manuscripts in Turkey:Trirkiye Yazmalan Toplu Katalogu, by Barbara Flemnting 109

Manuscripts & Manuscripts, by Jan Just li l ' itkont:1. The'Lost' Manuscripts of al-Bala{uri's Kitcib Futuh ol-Buldtin.2. The Peregrinations of the Unique manuscript of al-Kattani's

Kitab al-Taiblhat min Ai'ar Ahl al-Andalus,3. A Second Manuscript of al-Husri's Kitab al-Masunfi Sirr ul-Hcnrti ctl-ifukntln ttt

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One Year of Manuscripts of the Middle East,by Jan Just Witkam 5

Notes and Texts from Cairo Manuscripts II: Texts from Avicenna's library in a copyby Abd-ar- Razzaq as-Si gnal_rr,

by Dimitri Gutas B

An Arabic manuscript library: some important discoveries,by Hans Daiber 18

Ibn al-Akflam (d.74911348) and his bibliography of the sciences,by Jan Just Witkam 37

The earthquake of t872 in Antioch. ̂ ^;;";:;:^f]"i""Ttlrof the Church of Saints Peter and Paul.

{spects of the physical transmission of the Qur'an in lgth-century Sudan. Script, decoration, binding and paper.by Adrian Brockett 45

The library of at-iayft {Alid al-Sahrazun al-Naq5bandl (d. 124211827).A facsimile of the inventory of his library (MS Damascus, Maktabat al-Asad, No. 259),

presented by Frederick de Jong and Jan Just Witkam 68

Ownership statements and seals in Arabic manuscripts,by Adam Gacek 88

Piracy, war, and the acquisition of Arabic manuscripts in Renaissance Europe," by Robert Jones 96

Manuscripts & Manuscripts, by Jan Just Witkam:4. Research facilities for manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library,

5. Manuscripts in print: some Arabic examples IIl

Al-Nuwayrr's classification of Arabic scripts,by Adam Gacek 126

Multi-Lingual Scholar'' and Font Scholatt^, a word-processor and a tool for font designfor the student of Oriental languages.

A test by A.G.P. Janson and Jan Just Witkam 131

Book reviews 149

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Preface 5

From archetype to oral tradition: editing Persian and Turkish literary texts,by Barbara Flemming 7

On transcribing Ottoman texts,by Robert Anhegger 12

The function of the mamduhs in the 7th maqala of the Tullfat al-'Iraqain by Khaqani Shirwanr.

,t b1, A.L.F.A. Beelaert 16

Why transcribe Ottoman Turkish texts?,by H.E. Boeschoten 23

The transmission of early Persian ghazals (with special reference to the Dtvan of Sana'I).by J.T.P. de Bruijn 27

In search of formal identity and difference: considerations based on collating some Turkic manuscripts.by M.yan Damme & H. Braam 32

The collected letters of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindr,by J.G.J. ter Haar 41

The transmission history of a text of joint authorship,by Barbara Kellner-Heinkele 45

The long road to a critical text of the Shahname,by Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh 54

Some aspects of the cataloguing of Turkish manuscripts,by Gtinay Kut 60

Some remarks on the textual history of a famous late sixteenth-century world history:the case of Mustafh '-All's Xtinht; 't-ahbar.

by Jan Schmidt 69

The textual history of the correspondence between Sadr ad-drn-i Klnawr and Naslr ad-din-i T[sr.by Gudrun Schubert 73

Principles and practice of editing Qttoman texts, in historical perspective,by Andreas Tietze 79

The Munajat or llaht-namah of Abdu'llah Ansarr,by Bo Utas 83

Establishing the stemma: fact or fiction?,by Jan Just Witkam 88

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Publisher's preface 5

The iconography of Bektashiism.A survey of themes and symbolism in clerical costume, liturgical objects and pictorial art.

by Frederick de Jong 7

Some notes on Maghribi script,by N. van den Boogert 30

The diploma of the Egyptian calligrapher Hasan al-RushdI,by Adam Gacek 44

Modern Arabic manuscripts in the National Library of Tunis.A selection by Jan Just Witkam 56

A note on the expression '...a manuscript on Oriental paper',t* by Don Baker 67

A trilingual Armenian pharmaceutical lexicon,by John A.C. Greppin 69

Swahili literature in Arabic script,

,; by Jan Knappert 74

Hasan KafI al-Aqhisari and his Nizam al-'Ulama' ita {atam at-Anbiya'.A facsimile edition of MS Bratislava TF 136.

Presented, with an annotated index, by Jan Just Witkam 85

The first Dutch-Indonesian treaty.A rediscovered Arabic translation by Franciscus Raphelengius,

by Herman de Leeuw Il5

The balanced way: Food for pleasure and health in medieval Islam,by Manuela Marin and David Waines 123

The manuscripts and editions of Ibn Dawud's Kitab al-Zahra,by Wim Raven 133

A memorial for Hellmut Ritter in Istanbul.by Gudrun Schubert 138

Arabic scripts and their characteristics as seen through the eyes of Mamluk authors,by Adam Gacek 144

Medieval agricultural texts from Rasulid Yemen,by Daniel Mdrtin Varisco 150

Manuscripts & Manuscripts, by Jan Just Witkam:6. Qur'an fragments from Dawran (Yemen) 155

7. Arabic manuscripts in distress: the Frankfurt Facsimile Series 17-J

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Reproduction on front cover:

Calli-eraphy containing a statement of the central creed of Bektashiism. Paint and pencil on paper. Original dimensions 46 x 38 cm.The rcslint ra,ir in the centre may be a later addition. Decoration from the Bektashi tekke of Durbali Sultan.in Thessalia (Greece).Prirate collection of Professor Frederick de Jong. See the article by Frederick de Jong on the iconography of Bektashiism in this volume.

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Preface of the Guest Editors of this volume 5

Writing and writing materials in the ancient Near East,by Kevin J. Cathcart 6

From papyrus roll to papyrus codex. Some technical aspects of the ancient book fabrication.by A. Wouters 9

An unusual monastic agreement from Byzantine Egypt,by B.C. McGing 20

The Pachomian Monastic Library at the Chester Beatty Library and the Bibliothdque Bodmer.by James M. Robinson 26

Nabataean to Arabic. Calligraphy and script development among the pre-Islamic Arabs.by John F. Healey 4l

Standardisation and uuriution in the orthography of Hebrew Bible and Arabic Qur'an manuscripts.by Geoffrey Khan 53

The Qur'an of Ama[[r,by F. Ddroche 59

Manuscript production in the Ottoman Palace workshop,by Zeren Tarundt 67

The library of al-Hakam II al-Mustansir and the culture of Islamic Spain,by David Wasserstein 99

Arabic bookmaking and terminology as portrayed by Bakr al-Ishbrli in his Kitab al-tayst fi sina'at al-tas-/ir.'" by Adam Gacek 106

Early Arabic printing: A catalogue of attitudes,by Michael W. Albin 114

Lists of books in Arabic manuscripts,by Jan Just Witkam 123

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Islamic manuscripts in the British Royal Collection: a concise catalogueby Muhammad Isa Waley 5

Ibn Abi Hamrdah's didactic poem for bookbindersby Adam Gacek 4I

The Baladiyvat Ahmad ilFar. A note on a modern Egyptian manuscript textby Jacob M. Landau and Manfred Woidich 59

Some observations on printing Arabic in America and by Americans abroadby Miroslav Krek 7l

The relationship of Arabic with Ethiopian gnomologia.Remarks on a projected edition

by Ute Pietruschka 88

\ note on manuscripts of the.Zubdat al-athar, a Chaghatay Turkic History from sixteenth-century Ma*'arannahrby Devin DeWeese 96

New manuscript materials relevant to the history of Arabic literatureby Hans Daiber l0l

A study of manuscripts of al-Safadr's al-Wafi bi'l-Wafayal in Istanbul libraries

on editing epigraphy ," or"o,.'1":;':T;':rrorm or editorial presentationby F.Th. Dijkema 129

Some remarks on textual criticism and the editing of Hebrew texts

. by Bruno Chiesa 138

Unexplored glosses in the Yerushalmi manuscript of Leidenby Hans-liirgen Becker 145

The manuscript library of Tarrm in Wadi Hadramawtby Nico van den Boogert 155

A nineteenth-century Ottoman firman issued to the Greek-Orthodox Millet of D[ma al-Shamby Zeina Matar & Ingrid Heck 158

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