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245 x 165 mm (170 x 105 mm); calligraphic copy, in one hand throughout; illuminated title (pp. 2-3);

executed with gold discs of a floral design throughout the MS; colophon (p. 387) , ,-il .r. -r-< f1 f l q5 JL..i 4ll k*r i;4J.;tirlt r!l-'. P. I contains the ex-libris of the Ghaznawid aYnir 'Izz

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of the MS), deciphered by Stern (o.c., p. 13). The binding, which may be the original one (although the MS was rebound once, and is now without a flap) is described by M. Weisweiler, Der Islamische Buchein- band des Mittelalters. Wiesbaden 1962, nr. 369.

plate 48.

Meticulously vocalized and provided with some punctuation marks. Note the combination of a iadda and fatlra, e.g. in illa in l. I and also in al-'A{!A!

in l. 6; kasrq is always written below the line, cf. iubbihat in l. 4; also the sign " over sin or ra' in order to distinguish these from .fin and zay; also the way the ending -ar is written, cf . kurdusun inl. 7;

and the flat and extended kaf, although the short and elevated form is also used, but less frequently.

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by Abn Zakariyya'Yahya b. 'Ali al-Khatib al-Tibrizi (d. 50211108), GAL G I, 279. p. Voorhoeve, Hand- l i s t . . . , p . 1 0 .

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Carefully vocalized. Note the way the ending -az is written, cf. wa-ra{ulun in l. 4, and the same word in l. 5; note also how the final form of bA' , fi, , thA' , .fA, , and sometimes lam as well, consists of the characteristic element of the letter augmented with a horizontal extension; the horizontal stroke of kaf is not written;

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In the margin numerous notes in several hands.

among which also the copyist's figures. Another hand reproduces nearly the whole text of : Sarlt Abydt I;lal.t al-Manliq, by Y[suf b. al-Hasan Ibn al-Sirnfi (d. 385/995), cf. F. Rundgren, in : Donum natalicum H. S. Nyberg oblatum (1954), pp. 139-140. p. Voor- hoeve, Handlist..., p. 140.

MS on paper; 237 ff.; 12/18 lines to the page;

230 x 160 mm (180 x 115 mm); the title page (f. l6a) mentions the riwaya of the text :

Copied by Sa'd al-Khayr b. Muhammad al-Angdri in Madinat al-Saldm in 4951fi 01-2 (d. 541/1146, see : al-Maqqari, K. Nafh al-!tb, edd. R. Dozy, G. Dugat,

Transcription f. l60b :

l. text. lines l-3 :

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obJ * .-,*r !t-il !l "Ul -:y. y ;)\iJ! ,yq *_,! ,=.tl ,JrAl ,ifi 9l t +Als jj4t r"l;Jt ,-iYl_e

4. text of the Sarh, starting in the left upper corner, continued over the page :

l-*s'-t;t li4L rr. J.b+.,l'-- i r, jul ,,^.r .,,l I ;. o/t c_rK l;- or+l JU; o.rr."iirj 4^{. l*+tJl r.-rK-l +o:l ,_b dl*+ ,r{rl l_l ,r" ..r.

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[Unpublished in this form. The editors of the text of the Istaft al-Manliq, Ahmad

\{uhamnad Sakir and'Abd al-Sar6m Muhammad H6mn (cairo 1949) did not use this MS, which apparently constitutes a different branch in the textual tradition.

C f . t h e i r e d . p . 3 1 8 1 .

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The text is carefully vocalized. Note the sign " over rd' , sin and ;dd; also the way the ending -an is written;

note also the characteristic way of realising the lam-alif ligature (e.g. in al-arydf, l. 8 of the text;

in la, l. 2 of the marginal addition at the right; and in illa, in l. I of the marginal addition at the left on the lower half of the page); note also the absence of the alif al-w,iqdya. The number 8J over the word bab (1.6 of the text) was added in red ink at a later time.

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al-Ma'arri (d. 44911057) GAL G 1,255.

Cf. P. Voorhoeve, Handlist ..., p.l7l; M. J. de Goeje and M. T. Houtsma, Cat. Cod. Arab. nr. 642 (vol. l, pp. 400-2). This MS was discussed by S. M. Stern, 'Some Noteworthy Manuscripts of the Poems of Abn 'l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri', in : Oriens 7 (1954) pp. 322-347, especially pp. 339-344.

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245 x 165 mm (220 x 150 mm); The title on the title page reads :

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[Cf. ed. Amin'Abd al-'Aziz, vol. I, pp. 281-2 (Cairo 1930).

Or. 100 BAGHDAD before 49611102-3

Copied by Ibn al-Gawdliqi (d. 539/l144) GAL G I, 280.

Most samd', baldgh and owner's notes have been edited and commented upon by Stern, o.c., except for a statement by al-Tibrizi, in his own handwriting, on the title page :

,r*l ;. .-,.Jay )-Fyal ,-1r!l -+l Jr'li

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The al-'Allani in l. 3 I have not been able to identify.

Cf. for another specimen of Ibn al-dawiliqi's hand' writing : MS Chester Beatty Library nr. 3009 (A. J. Ar- berry, Handlisl ..., vol. I, p. 3, plate 1).

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This risdla by Abu Nagr al-Fardbi (d. 339/950, probably made this selection of philosophical texts, GAL G I, 210) is part of a ma{mil'a containing some and who gives colophons on ff. 62a and 86b, the 16 smaller tracts on philosophy, all of a rather former dated 514/1120, the latter 515/1121.

elementary nature, by such authors as Bahmanydr

b. al-Marzubdn, Ibn Sina, Ibn al-'Amid, al-Firibi MS on paper; 103 ff.; 17 lines to the page; 190 x and Ibn al-Haytham. They are listed in P. Voorhoeve, 100 mm (150 x 75 mm); Red overlinings on f . 42b:

H a n d l i s t . . . , p p . 2 g g , 1 7 1 , 3 6 1 , 5 , 2 8 7 , 2 9 6 , 1 7 2 , 7 4 , s e n t e n c e s a r e s e p a r a t e d b y t h r e e d o t s , i n r e d i n k ; lgg, 454, 28g, 95,433,43g,267 and 395. Two of the partly vocalized; the sign " is used over ra' and sin, tracts in this volume were added by later hands, but not exhaustively : note that the dots of the final one of which is dated6g4112g5. Otherwise the volume ya' are written within the letter, even in alif maq;ltra' is written in one hand, by Fayrlz b. Rlzbihan, who

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Sarh al-Sama" al-TabrI

The commentary by Mulrammad b. 'Ali al-Ba;ri travellingbetweenDizfiil,dundisab[r,'AskarMukram (d. 43611044, GAL G I, 459) on Aristotle's nepi (all in Khrizistan), and Baghdad, in the course of Quor.xfis d.rcpiaoeas in the Arabic translation by the year 52411130, as may be concluded from the Isfnq b. flunayn (d. 2981910, GAL G I, 206), colophons at the end of each maqdla (ff. l5b, 32a, c f . F . E . P e t e r s , A r i s t o t e l e s A r a b u s . L e i d e n 1 9 6 8 , 5 8 a , 1 1 3 b , 1 5 0 a , 1 8 5 a , 2 0 4 b , 2 3 3 b ) ; o n t h e e x e m p l a r pp. 30 ff. On this MS see : S. M. Stern, 'Ibn al-Samlr', of this MS, as documented in the colophon on f. 15b, in : "/RlS 1956, pp. 3l-44.P. Voorhoeve, Handli,st ..., see Stern, o.c., who also gives a facsimile of that page.

p. 327.

In vocalization and punctuation the utmost economy MS on paper; 233 ff .; 23 lines to the page; 240 x has been observed. Letters which much resemble each 180 mm (180 x 135 mm); copied by Ab[ 'l-flakam other can be read after comparison only, cf. al-qadr al-Maghribi (d. 54911154, GAL G I, 272), while (1. 12) and al-'adad 0. l7).

Transcription f. 1l3b :

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Kilab al-Usul

Euclid's Elementa in the Arabic translation by al- HaEEag b. Yrisuf b. Matar (2ndi8th cent., GIS IV, 103) in the so-called 'Ma'm[ni' version, with the com- mentary by Ab[ 'l-'Abbas

al-Fadl b. flatim al-Nayrizi (3rd/9th cent., GIS IV, 283; the MS has al-Narizi, cf. f. lb, l. 9). Cf. P. Voorhoeve, Handlist ..., p. 392.

The MS contains books l-6 and the beginning of book 7 only (ff. 1-81a). The MS was originally a mafimu'a of several mathematical treatises, as the table of contents on the title page shows (f. 1a).

The part of the MS preserved in Leiden contains also K. Manald'us fi 'l-Aikal

al-Kuriyya, i.e. Menelaos' Sphaerica, cf. P. Voorhoeve, Handlist..., p' 165.

MS Paris (Bibl. Nat.) Arab. 2458 (cat. De Slane, p. a3\ is part of this very same mafimu'a.

MS on paper; 105 ff.; 29/31 lines to the page (var.);

265 x 160 mm (205 x 125 mm); copied on 8 Rabi' I 53911144 by Ab[ Sa'id Mu[rammad al-Bayhaqi al- Barzuhi (f. 81a; other colophons on ff.49b and l05b);

Transcription f . 24a, lines 6-21 :

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C**l.oJI j. ;*+'(Jl [Ed. R. O. Besthorn e.a., Copenhague 1897-1932, pt. l, pp.182-4).

written in one hand throughout. For a more detailed description of the MS see the edition, with Latin translation : Codex Leidensis 399. 1. Euclidis Elementa ex interpretatione Al-Hadschdschadschii cum commen- tariis Al-Narizii, edd. R. O. Besthorn, J. L. Heiberg, G. Junge, J. Raeder and W. Thomson. Copenhague

1897-1932, pt. 3, fasc. 2, pp.206-209.

The figure is executed in red, as are the numbers of the demonstrations in the text to which the author refers. Note the slight difference between the writing of the letters denoting the lines or part of lines in the figure, and the execution of the same letters when used in words. The extra flourish in the final shape of the sin, ;ad, qaf, niln, and the upward stroke on the ddl are especially characteristic; srn is sometimes provided with three dots underneath (cf. twice sa'ir, l. 3); combinations of two dots are usually written vertically.

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Epilogue

The Arabic manuscripts presented here belong to the oldest part of the collection of oriental manuscripts of the ieiden University Library. They were bought in the first half of the seventeenth century in Istanbul, and occasionally in Aleppo, by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667)' professor of Arabit and Mathematics at Leiden University (or. 100, or. 184), and his pupil Leuinrrs Warner (1619-1665), ambassador of the Dutch Republic to the Porte'

These seven specimens have been selected mainly on the basis of their age. They all date from the 5th and 6th centuries A.H. (l1th and l2th centuries A.D.), which is fairly old for Arabic manuscripts. Furthermore I have aimed at a certain variety of subject matter. The manuscripts from which the specimens have been taken deal respectively with prophetology' lexicography' grammar, poetry, philosophy, the Arabic Physica of Aristotle, and Euclid's Elementa' My choice has arso been decided by my own predilection for celebrated authors, famous scribes and precious manuscriPts.

The specimens (which are all reproduced in real size), are given in chronological order, but from this small sample no .on.iusions should be drawn on the development of the Arabic script. The fact thai the majority of these specimens were written in Baghdad at approxi- mately the same time and mostly in the same intellectual circle (the group around al-Tibrizi) illustrates the extreme hazardousness of guesses in this field' For even among the MSS presented here, which are closely related in background, there are huge divergencies in irandwriting, for which the different origins of their respective scribes may account'

Apart from some remarks on the most obvious peculiarities of the scripts, I have had to refrain from giving a palaeographical analysis of these specimens. This is due to the fact that in this field even the most basic work still remains to be done' No adequate criteria for the description of Arabic handwriting do as yet exist. The mere fact that all scripts presented here may conveniently be called naskhi prou., that this name is of hardly any use and might just as well be discarded. Not even ihe ,oughest guide lines as to provenance and dating of Arabic manuscripts have been drawn, and this work can not be done without taking Persian and Turkish palaeography into account. In offering this selection I had a double purpose in mind:to presenti gil-pre of the richness of the Leiden University Library holdings, and to provide students oflrabic bibliography and palaeography with the opportunity to study these seven bookhands by including ,o-. bibliographical data and a transcription of the whole or part of the text. The absence of this kind of information is a conspicuous deficiency in most existing atlasses'

J. J. Witkam

Keeper of Oriental ManuscriPt's.

Leiden Univer sitl' LibrarY

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Index

'Abdallah b. Muhammad b. Rustam 9 R. O. Besthorn l7 Kitah Khalq al-Nahr v'a-Khulqilt 5 'Abd

al-Ra5id b. Mahmld. 'lzz

a!-Dawla L. Cheikho S. J. 7 KitAb Tal.tdhib al-Alla: 7

S ,JAd, to be distinguished ftom;ad 7 Kifib al-U;ul 17

Abu'l-'Abbas al-Fa{l b. Hatim al-Nay- dal,upward stroke on - 17 L. Krehl 9

rizr 17 dal, with a dot underneath 7 Kurlsihs 13

Abu'1-'A1a'Ahmad b.'Abdallah b. Su- Dhiy[fanis 13 lam,final form of - 7 layman al-Tan[khi al-Ma'arri. see : Dizfnl 15 lam-alifltgature 9 Ab[ 'l-'Ah'

al-Ma'arri R. Dozy 9 Luziim ntd la yalzamu qabla l.tarf al-rawi

Ab[ '1-'AlA'

al-Ma'arri 11 G. Dugat 9 l l

Ab[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[['A1i al-Hasan b.'A1i 7 Elementa 17, l8 Madinat al-Salam '7,9, Il

Ab[g Bakr Alrmad b. Muhammad b. al- Euclid 17. 18 Ma'muni version of Euclid's KitAb al'

darrah 9 -fa', final form of - 7 USul 17

Ab6 Bakr Muhammad b. 'Abdallah

b. al-Farabi, see:Ab[ Na$ral-Farabt K. Manala'us.fi'l-AikAl al-Kuriy.va l7 'Abd

al-'Aziz 5 /'atl.ta. combination ol iaddu and - 5 al-Maqqari 9

Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Abi Rafi'al- Fayruzb. Ruzbihan l3 al-Maqqari. NaJh al-Tib, ed. R. Dozy

warraq 5 Flrina 13 r:.4., Leiden 1855-60 9

Abfl'l-Hakam al-Maghribi 15 Flthaghlris 13 ll{awh[b b. Afmad b. Muhammad b.

Ab[ 'l-Husayn

Hilal b. al-Muhassin 9 Ghazna 5 al-Khidr al-Gawaliqi. see: Ibn al-Ga-

AbD 'l-Husayn Muhammad b. 'Ali

al- M. J. de Goeje and M. T. Houtsma. waliqi Basri, see : Muhammad b. 'Ali

al-Basrl Catalogus C)odicunt Arabit'ortun Biblio- \lenelaos 11 Ab[ Mansur 5 thecae Acaderniae Lugtluno-Butayut'. a1-N'lu'a1'di 9 Abu Mansur Mawhlb b. Ahmad, see: vol. 1, Leiden 1888 ll al-Mutaddal 5

Ibn al-Gawaliqi Jacobus Golius 18 Muhammad b. 'Ali

al-Ba9ri, Ab['l-Hu-

Ab[ Nasr al-Farabi 13 Gundisab[r 15 sayn 15

Ab[ Sahm al-Hudhali 9 al-Haggag b. Yfsuf b. Matar 17 Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-SaranqaSi 9 Abu Sa'id Muhammad al-Bayhaqi al- al-Harith b. Abi Sams al-Chassani 9 al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani 9

Barzuhi 17 'Abd

al-Salam Muhammad Harln 9 al-Nadr 5

Ab[11 ylsuf ya'qflb b. Ishaq al-Sikkit. Hibat Allah b. Muhammad b. Ibrahim niln,exIra flourish in the final form of - see : Ibn al-Sikkit b. Kuhyar al-Farisi, Ab[ 'l-Thana'

7 11

Ab[ Zakariyya' Yahya b. 'Ali

al-Khatib Hisn b. Hudhayfa 9 owner's notes 11

al-Tibrizi. see : al-Tibrizi M. T. Houtsma. see : M. J. de Goeje nepi quorrfrq drcpouoeog 15

al_.AAAaA 5 Ibn al-'Amid 13 Persian palaeography 18

Aleppo 18 Ibn a1-Anbari 9 F. E. Peters. Aristotele.s Arabus, Leiden

alif rnaq.sura 13 Ibn al-A'rabi 5 1968 15

ali/'al-wiqaya, absence of - 9 Ibn al-Gawaliqi (Mawhlb b. Ahmad b. Physica 18

al-'Allani [?] l l Muhammad b. al-Khidr, Ab[ Man- R. Pinder Wilson (ed.), Paintings liont Amin 'Abd

al: Azlz 11 .s[r) l1 Islamic Lands. Oxlord 1969 5

.Amr

15 Ibn al-Haytham 13 qaf, extra flourish in the final form of -

Andaiusian features [?] 9 lbn al-Sikkit (Abu Yusuf Ya'qlb b. Ishaq l'7

a l - A - r a b 7 a l - S i k k i t ) 1 . 9 r a ' , w i t h - o v e r

i t 5 , 7 , 9 ' 1 3 A.J. Arberry. A Hanllist of rhe Arabit: Ibn Sina 13 ra', to be distinguished from dal 7

Manuscript.s. vol. l. Dublin 1955 ll Ishaq b. Hunayn 15 .1. Raeder l'7

Arisriqls 13 lstanbul 18 Ri.sala li-Abi Nasr al-Farahi ./imA .t'att-

Aristotle 15. 18 'lzz

a1-Dawla, see : 'Abd

al-Ra5id b. Mah- bagh[ m .t'uqaddanm qobla To' ullutrt 'Askar

Mukram 15 rnld al-Falsa/a 13

al-Asma'i "l G. Junge IT riw'ava 9

Arhini-,-a 13 k4l'. flat and extended 5 F. Rundgren 9

brj'. flnal of - j kr7/. horizontal stroke of - 7 .rad. Andalusian I'eatures in - [')] 9 .A. Bacla*,i 15 frr7l, elevated lbrm of - 5 ,rarl, extra llourish in the final form of - Brrghdad 7. 9. ll. 15, 18 ka.ir.a, always written below the line 5 17

B a h n r a n y a l b . a l - M a r z u b a n 1 3 K h u z i s t a n 1 5 s . r , / . u i t h - o v e r i t 7 . 9

"rilrlglr rrotes I I Kitab al-Alla; 7 Sa'd al-Khayr b. Muhammacl al-An:lrr

B.rrru .A:acl 9 Kifib IslAh al-Muntiq 9 9

l 9

iodda, combination ol .fatha and - 5 Jdrrr' notes I I

Ahmad Muhammad Sakir 9 Sarft Ab1'at I;lal.t al-Manliq 9 Surh al-Sama' al-Tabir 15

A. Schmoelders. Documenl a Philosophiae A r a b u m . B o n n 1 8 3 6 l 3

sur. with -over

it 5, 9. 13

.rr1, extra flourish in the final form of -

t 7

.vn, provided with three dots underneath

t 1

ill, to be distinguished from slrl 5 al-Sirafi 9

Sphaerica 11

S. M. Stern, "Some Noteworthy Manu- scripts of the Poems of Ab[ 'l-'AlA' al-Ma'arri'. in: Oriens 7 (1954)' pp.

322-34'7 I I

S.M. Stern, 'lbn

al-Samh', in: "/R,4S 1 9 5 6 . p p . 3 l - 4 4 l 5

S. M. Stern, 'A ManuscriPt from the Library of the Ghaznawid Amir 'Abd al-Rashid'. in : R. Pinder Wilson (ed.)' Paintings ./rom Islantic Lands, Oxford . t 9 6 9 . p p . 7 - 3 1 5

lci', final form of - 7 tha'. final lorm of - 7

Thabit b. Qurra al-Harrani al-$abi \'7 W. Thomson 1"7

al-Tibrizi (Abu Zakariyya' Yahya b. 'Ali a l - K h a t i b a l - T i b r i z i ) 7 , 9 , 1 1 , 1 8 Turkish palaeograPhY 18

-ur ending. originally consisting ol danr m a ' t . l a t h a 5 . 7 , 9 , 1 1

P. Voorhoeve, Handlist of'Arabic Manu- scripts in the Library o.f the Universitl' o./ Leiden and other PubliL: Collections

it The Netherlaridi. Leidcn l95r 5. -.

9 . 1 1 , 1 3 , 1 5 , l 7 Levinus Warner l8

M. Weisweiler, Dcr Islantischc But'ht'irt- band des Mittelalters, Wiesbaden 1962 5

W. Wright 9

-r'ri'. dots ol the final ,i'a' written within the letter I 3

Yahya [b. 'Adi] 15

Ylsuf b. al-Hasan lbn al-Sirafi 9 E. de Zambaur. Manuel de Gdndabgie

et de Chronologie pour I'Histoire de l'lslam, Hannover 1927 5

zay-, to be distinguished lrom ra' 5, 7 Zayd 15

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