TY - JOUR
AU - Witkam, Jan Just
AB - This article provides a bibliographical description of the content of eighteen manuscript volumes acquired by the Leiden University library, directly from Yemen, in the course of 2000. They contain a great variety of subjects, ranging from language to literature, history, religion and Islamic law. They date from 1042 (1632) to 1359 (1941), but most date from the 14th/20th century. Together, they give an impression of traditional Yemeni scholarship and book culture. An attempt is made to analyze the Ihmāl marks, a feature that has survived particularly in Yemeni manuscripts, and which occurs in many of the manuscripts described here.
TI - Yemeni Manuscripts in the University of Leiden Library. Acquisitions of the Year 2000: Texts and Themes
JO - Journal of Islamic Manuscripts
DO - 10.1163/1878464X-00502009
DA - 2014-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/yemeni-manuscripts-in-the-university-of-leiden-library-acquisitions-of-DODbSftvJ6
SP - 275
EP - 356
VL - 5
IS - 2-3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -