Ronkel,ph.S. Van - Supplement To The Catalogue Of The Arabic Manuscripts Preserved In The Museum Of The Batavia Society Of Arts And Sciences. Orig. Edn.

Batavia-The Hague, Albrecht/Nijhoff, 1913. sm. 8°. Recent marbled boards, richly gilt ornamented endpapers. Hftitle (verso with publ. imprint). (xi), 554pp. Index (showing the correspondence between the class-marks of the Mss. and the numbers under which Mss. are described in the present Catalogue), index of Authors' names (in arabic, not transcribed), index of titles (in arabic, not transcribed), addenda & corrigenda (both in latin and arabic script). Ex-libris of G.F. Pijper pasted inside front boards. This supplement is the completion to the Catalogue by L.W.C. van den Berg, Catalogus arabicorum Arabicorum.. (1873)(the first ever poblished) has been published some forty years later. In this period the increase in the number of these Mss. has been comparatively great, mainly through the acquisition of some more or lessimportant collections from Acheh. Although these collections do not contain many works of prominent significance, yeat their composition throws a remarkable light upon the religious attitude of the Achehnese people, whose uncompromising spiritual leaders, even though they were persistently driven from shelter to shelter, did not relax in their study and annotation of the sacred texts, until death in their Jihad, or captivity brought their unquenchable ardour to pitiful termination. (cf. preface). A very good copy. Rare. (japanese occupational ex-lib. stamp on title, repeated on verso of page 553).