Resources for Zaydi Studies
Resources for Zaydi Studies - Manuscript Catalogs
Included in the following list (to be gradually expanded) are published and unpublished catalogs containing descriptions of collections of Zaydi manuscripts, arranged according to countries, cities, and repositories. For those that are not under copyright, pdfs are provided.
Austria
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
- Max Grünert, “Bericht über die durch Eduard Glaser von seiner vierten Reise in Südarabien nach Europa gebrachten Sammlungen erstattet von dem o.ö. Professor der semitischen Sprachen und Literaturen an der deutschen Universität Dr. Max Grünert in Prag” [June 6, 1894], Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, “Erwerbung von arabischen Handschriften aus der Glaserschen Sammlung”, shelf mark: 654/1894. Link
- Max Grünert, “Beilage: Kurzer Katalog der Glaser’schen Sammlung arabischer Handschriften verfasst von Prof. Dr. Max Grünert (Prag),” Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, [1894]. PDF
- Max Grünert, “Über Ed. Glaser’s jüngste arabische Handschriften-Sammlung,” Actes du Dixième Congrès International des Orientalistes, Session de Genève, 1894, Première Partie, Comptes Rendus des Séances, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1897, Section III: Langues Musulmanes, pp. 35-43. PDF
- TarifAl-Samman, “Religion und Wissenschaft. Codices Glaser in der Handschriftensammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek,” Jemen: Im Land der Königin von Saba. Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, 16. 12. 1989 - 10. 6. 1990 ; eine Ausstellung des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung, ed. Alfred Janata with Herbert Karner and Renate Meissner, Vienna: Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1989, pp. 152-159. PDF
- Thomas Ripper, Zettelkatalog zu den Handschriften der Sammlung Glaser, n.d. [Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. Ser. n. 52455 Han]. Link
- Hassan Ansari, Az ganjīna-hā-yi nusakh-i khaṭtī: Muʿarrifī-i dast niwisht-hā-yi arzishmand az kitābkhāna-hā-yi buzurg-i jahān dar ḥawza-yi ʿulūm-i islāmī, Isfahan: Daftar-i tablīghāt-i islāmī ḥawza-yi ʿilmiyya-yi Qum, 2015, pp. 424-433.
- Hassan Ansari, "Nuskha-hā-ʿi dīgari az Kitābkhāna-yi Wīn (Majmūʿa-yi Glāsir)" (1395/2016). Link
France
Bibliotheque Nationale
- David A. King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Biobibliographical Survey, Malibu, C.A.: Undena Publishers, 1983.
- Marie-Geneviève Guesdon, “Dix-sept manuscrits arabes rassemblés au Yémen et donnés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France par Pierre Bardey,” Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 1 (2006) [with descriptions of MSS Paris, BnF Arabe 6784, 6785, 6786, 6788, 6789, 6790, 6791, 6792, 6794, 6795, 6796, 6797, 6798, 6799, 6800]. Link
- Marie-Geneviève Guesdon, “Georges S. Colin au Yémen en 1929,” Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 15 (2013) [with descriptions of MSS Paris, BnF Arabe 7016 and 7084]. Link
- Hassan Ansari, Az ganjīna-hā-yi nusakh-i khaṭtī: Muʿarrifī-i dast niwisht-hā-yi arzishmand az kitābkhāna-hā-yi buzurg-i jahān dar ḥawza-yi ʿulūm-i islāmī, Isfahan: Daftar-i tablīghāt-i islāmī ḥawza-yi ʿilmiyya-yi Qum, 2015, pp. 388-391.
Germany
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz
- Karl Vollers,“Mittheilung über einige handschriftliche Erwerbungen der königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin,” Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 38 (1884), pp. 574-580. PDF
- Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Kurzes Verzeichniss der Landberg’schen Sammlung arabischer Handschriften, Berlin, A. W. Schade’s Buchdruckerei (L. Schade), 1885 [reprinted in Beiträge zur Erschließung der arabischen Handschriften in deutschen Bibliotheken, ed. Fuat Sezgin with M. Amawi, Frankfurt am Main: nsitut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 1-118]. PDF
- Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Kurzes Verzeichniss der Glaser’schen Sammlung arabischer Handschriften von W. Ahlwardt, Berlin, Druck von Gebr. Unger (Th. Grimm), 1887 [reprinted in Beiträge zur Erschließung der arabischen Handschriften in deutschen Bibliotheken, ed. Fuat Sezgin with M. Amawi, Frankfurt am Main: nsitut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 119-174]. PDF
- Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Verzeichniss der arabischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, 10 vols, Berlin: A. Asher, 1887-1889. Link
- Arabische und persische Handschriften: Aus dem Besitz des verstorbenen Reisenden Dr. Burchardt;Mit Vorwort von Geh. Rat Prof. Dr. A. Fischer, Leipzig, Leipzig, Gustav Fock, [1921].
- Hars Kurio, “Die Imame des Jemen in den arabischen Handschriften der Staatsbibliothek,” Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Mitteilungen 15, no. 3 (1983), pp. 167-173. PDF
- David A. King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Biobibliographical Survey, Malibu, C.A.: Undena Publishers, 1983.
- Rosemarie Quiring-Zoche, Arabische Handschriften der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2015. PDF
- Hassan Ansari, Az ganjīna-hā-yi nusakh-i khaṭtī: Muʿarrifī-i dast niwisht-hā-yi arzishmand az kitābkhāna-hā-yi buzurg-i jahān dar ḥawza-yi ʿulūm-i islāmī, Isfahan: Daftar-i tablīghāt-i islāmī ḥawza-yi ʿilmiyya-yi Qum, 2015, pp. 413-423.
- Hassan Ansari, “Nuskha-hā-yi dīgar az Barlīn (3)” (1395/2016). Link
- Hassan Ansari, “Nuskha-hā-yi dīgar az Barlīn (4)” (1395/2016). Link
- Hassan Ansari, “Nuskha-hā-yi Barlīn (5)” (1395/2016). Link
- Hassan Ansari, “Nuskha-hā-yi Barlīn (6)” (1395/2016). Link
- Bernard Quaritch, Islamic Manuscripts, Catalogue 1424, London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2013
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- “Konkordanz Codd. arab. Glaser – Codd. arab.” and “Erwerbungsliste Sammlung Glaser (1902)”, Repetitorium der Codices orientales der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Link PDF
- Emil Gratzl, “Die arabischen Handschriften der Sammlung Glaser in der königl. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek zu München,” Orientalistische Studien: Fritz Hommel zum sechzigsten Geburtstag am 31. Juli 1914 gewidmet von Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern, Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1916, vol. 2, pp. 194-200 [reprinted in Beiträge zur Erschließung der arabischen Handschriften in deutschen Bibliotheken. 2. Ed. Fuat Sezgin, Frankfurt am Main, 1987. pp. 550-558]. PDF
- Emil Gratzl, “Islamische Handschriftenbestände der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek,” Buch und Bucheinband: Aufsätze und graphische Blätter zum 60. Geburtstage von Hans Loubier, Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923, pp. 118-147. PDF
- Florian Sobieroj, Arabische Handschriften der bayerischen Staatsbibliothek zu München unter Einschluss einiger türkischer und persischer Handschriften, vol. 1, Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007.
- Hassan Ansari, Az ganjīna-hā-yi nusakh-i khaṭtī: Muʿarrifī-i dast niwisht-hā-yi arzishmand az kitābkhāna-hā-yi buzurg-i jahān dar ḥawza-yi ʿulūm-i islāmī, Isfahan: Daftar-i tablīghāt-i islāmī ḥawza-yi ʿilmiyya-yi Qum, 2015, pp. 392-412.
Italy
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
- Eugenio Griffini,”I manoscritti sudarabici di Milano (Catalogo della prima collezione),” Rivista degli Studi Orientali 2 (1908-9), pp. 1-38, 133-166; 3 (1910), pp. 65-104. PDF
- Eugenio Griffini,”La grande raccolta di antichi mss. arabi donata alla Biblioteca Ambrosiana,” Corriere della Sera, January 13 (1910), p. 3. PDF
- Eugenio Griffini,”Una lieta notizia: Il nuovo fondo arabo dell’Ambrosiana (1610 codici),” Rivista degli Studi Orientali 3 (1910), pp. 105-107. PDF
- Eugenio Griffini, Nuovi testi arabo-siculi ricavati da manoscritti di biblioteche Tunisine e dai manoscritti jemenici di Milano, Palermo: Stabilimento tipografico Virzì, 1910.
- Eugenio Griffini, Catalogo dei manoscritti arabi di Nuovo Fondo della Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano, vol. 1: codici 1-475, Rome: Casa editrice italiana, 1910-1919. Link
- Eugenio Griffini, “Lista dei manoscritti arabi, nuovo fondo della Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano,” Rivista degli Studi Orientali 3 (1910), pp. 253-228, 571-594, 901-921; 4 (1911-1912), pp. 87-106, 1021-1048; 6 (1914-1915), pp. 1283-1316; 7 (1916-1918), pp. 51-130, 565-628; 8 (1919-1920), pp. 241-367. PDF
- Eugenio Griffini, “Die jüngste ambrosianische Sammlung arabischer Handschriften,” Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 69 (1915), pp. 63-88. PDF
- Beltrami, Luca, Eugenio Griffini Bey, MDCCCLXXVIII-MCMXXV, Milan, Allegretti, 1926. PDF
- Munajjid, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya fī l-Ambrūziyānā bi-Mīlānū = Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de l'Ambrosienne de Milan, Cairo: Maʿhad al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya, 1960.
- David A. King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Biobibliographical Survey, Malibu, C.A.: Undena Publishers, 1983.
- Oscar Löfgren and Renato Traini, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Vol. II. Nuovo Fondo: Series A-D (Nos. 1-830), Vicenza: N. Pozza, 1981.
- Oscar Lögfren and Renato Traini, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana. Vol. III. Nuovo Fondo: Series E (Nos. 831-1295), Vicenza: N. Pozza, 1995.
- Renato Traini, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana. Vol. IV. Nuovo Fondo: Series F-H (Nos. 1296-1778), Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2011.
- Hassan Ansari, Az ganjīna-hā-yi nusakh-i khaṭtī: Muʿarrifī-i dast niwisht-hā-yi arzishmand az kitābkhāna-hā-yi buzurg-i jahān dar ḥawza-yi ʿulūm-i islāmī, Isfahan: Daftar-i tablīghāt-i islāmī ḥawza-yi ʿilmiyya-yi Qum, 2015, pp. 434-452.
- Hassan Ansari, “Nuskha-hā-yi Ambrūziānā (3)” (1395/2016). Link
- Hassan Ansari, “Nuskha-hā-yi Ambrūziānā (4)” (1395/2016). Link
- Hassan Ansari, “Nuskha-hā-yi Ambrūziānā (5)” (1395/2016). Link
- Hassan Ansari, “Majmūʿa-yi dīgar az nuskha-hā-yi khaṭṭī dar Khitābkhāna-yi Ambrūziānā (6)” (1395/2016). Link
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”—Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici
- Clelia Sarnelli Cerqua, “Le fonds de manuscrits arabies de l'Institute Universitaire Oriental de Naples,” Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, 10th Congress, Edinburgh 1980: Proceedings, ed. R. Hillenbrandt, Edinburgh 1982, pp. 94-96.
- Giuseppe Celentano and Clelia Sarnelli Cerqua, “I manoscritti di medicina araba dell'Istituto universitario orientale di Napoli,” Studi in onore di Francesco Gabrieli nel suo ottantesimo compleanno, ed. Renato Traini, Rome: Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 211-236.
- [Undated and unpublished handlist of 249 Arabic manuscripts], Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”, Dipartmento di Studi Asiatici, Biblioteca “Maurizio Taddei” [to be consulted in the library]
Biblioteca dell'Accademia dei Lincei e Corsiniana
- Carlo Alfonso Nallino, “Due manoscritti arabi di storia del Yemen appartenenti alla Fondazione Caetani,” Rendiconti della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche, s. 6a, IX (1933), pp. 669-684 [republ. in C.A. Nallino, Raccolta di studi editi e inediti, Rome: Istituto per l’Oriente, 1939-1948, vol. 3 (1941), pp. 330-344]. PDF
- Renato Traini, I manoscritti arabi di recente accessione della Fondazione Caetani, Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1967. PDF
- David A. King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Biobibliographical Survey, Malibu, C.A.: Undena Publishers, 1983.
- Sayyid Ṣādiq Ḥusaynī Ishkiwārī, Fihrist-i nuskha-hā-yi khaṭṭī-yi kitābkhāna-yi akādimī Linjī (Rum—Itāliyā), Qum: Majmaʿ-yi dhakhāʾir-i islāmī, 1381/2002. PDF
- Maria Luisa Rosso, “Il fondo yemenita della BANLC tra codicologia, conservazione e restauro,” Libri islamici in contreluce: Ricerche, modelli, esperienze conservative, ed. Valentina Sagaria Rossi, Rome: Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, 2008, pp. 119-146.
- François Déroche and Valentina Sagaria Rossi, I manoscritti in caratteri arabi, Rome: Viella, 2012, see Indice dei manoscritti, s.v. Roma: Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (BANLC).
- Hassan Ansari, “Muʿarrifī-yi chand-i nuskha” (1395/2016). Link
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma
- Fondo Emilio Dubbiosi Link
Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino
- Laura Bottini, Islamic Manuscripts from the Library of the Istituto per l'Oriente Carlo Alfonso Nallino (Rome), Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2017.
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Historical Archive
- Albrecht Hofheinz, “A Yemeni Library in Eritrea: Arabic Manuscripts in the Italian Foreign Ministry,” Der Islam 72 (1995), pp. 98-139. PDF
The Netherlands
Leiden University Library
- Petrus Voorhoeve, Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and Other Collections in The Netherlands, Leiden: s.n., 1980. Link
- Jan Just Witkam, "The Middle Eastern Holdings of the Library of the University of Leiden," Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 8 (1981), pp. 60-64.
- David A. King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Bibliographical Survey, Malibu, C.A.:Undena Publishers, 1983.
- Jan Just Witkam, "Verzamelingen van Arabische Handschriften en Boeken in Nederland," Nederland en de Arabischoe Wereld: Van Middeleeuwen tot Twintigste Eeuw; Wetenschap, taal, handel, cultuur, kunst, ed. Nikolaos van Dam, Lochem/Gent: Uitgeversmaatschappij de tijdstroom, 1987, 19-29.
- Arnoud Vrolijk, "Collection Amin b. Hasan al-Madani". Link
- Arnoud Vrolijk, "List of Manuscripts with a 'Yememi' Interest, from J.J. Witkam's Unpublished Inventory of Leiden Manuscripts which Includes Details on the Various Transactions over the Course of the Twentieth Century,' Leiden, Leiden University Library, August 2007 [unpublished manuscript].
- Jan Just Witkam, Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts in Leiden University Library, volumes 1-7, 10-25, Leiden: Ter Lugt Press, 2006-2016. Link
- Jan Just Witkam, "Yemeni Manuscripts in the University of Leiden Library. Acquisitions of the Year 2000: Texts and Themes," Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 5 (2014), pp. 275-356.
United States
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Charles Cutler Torrey, “Special Collections in American Libraries: The Landberg Collection of Arabic Manuscripts at Yale University,” Library Journal (February 1903), pp. 53-57.
- Leon Nemoy, “Arabic Manuscripts in the Yale University Library,” New Haven, 1956.
- David A. King, “Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Biobibliographical Survey,” Malibu, C.A.: Undena Publishers, 1983.
Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame
- Astrik L. Gabriel, “A Summary Catalogue of Microfilms of One Thousand Scientific Manuscripts in the Ambrosiana Library, Milan,” Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, Mediaeval Institute, 1968.
The University of Michigan Library
- Evyn Kropf, “Catalogue of the Yemeni Manuscripts in the University of Michigan Library.” N.d. Link
- Evyn Kropf, “The Yemeni manuscripts of the Yahuda Collection at the University of Michigan: Provenance and acquisition.” Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen 13 (2012). Link
Perry-Castañeda Library, The University of Texas at Austin (Stookey Collection)
- Dale J. Correa, “Recovering Yemen's Cultural Heritage: The Stookey Microfilms,” Shii Studies Review 2 (2018), pp. 270-280.
- Anne Regourd, “La collection de manuscrits microfilmés réunie par Robert W. Stookey: Markaz al-Dirâsât wa-al-buhûth al-yamaniyya, Sanaa & Bibliothèques de l’Université du Texas, Austin, 1e partie,” Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 8 (2009). Link
- Anne Regourd, “La collection de manuscrits microfilmés réunie par Robert W. Stookey: Markaz al-Dirâsât wa-al-buhûth al-yamaniyya, Sanaa, & Bibliothèques de l’Université du Texas, Austin, 2e partie avec en annexe un Index des titres et des auteurs,” Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 11 (2011). Link
- Sabine Schmidtke, “Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915-2016) and His Personal Library,” Cordoba: UCOPress, 2018.
- [Robert W. Stookey,] “Makṭūṭāt al ʿarabiyya min al Yaman fī Maktabat Jāmiʿat Tiksas fī Awstin [=]Arabic Manuscripts from Yemen in the Library of the University of Texas at Austin,” [unpublished catalogue. Perry-Castañeda Library, call number: FILM 22,632 LIST MICRO]. PDF
Vatican
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
- Giorgio Levy Della Vida, Elenco dei manoscritti arabic islamici della Biblioteca Vaticana: Vaticani, Barberiniani, Borgiani, Rossiani, Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1935.
- David A. King, Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Bibliographical Survey, Malibu, CA: Undena Publishers, 1983.
- al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī al-Ashkawārī, al-Makhṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya fī Maktabat al-Fātīkān (Rūmā—al-Fātikān), Qum: Manshūrāt Dār al-Hudā, 2001. PDF
Yemen
Maktabat Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr
- ʾAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Ḥibšī, “Al-maḫṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya fī maktabat al-ʿAllāma Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Manṣūr,” Maǧallat Maʿhad al-maḫṭūṭāt al-ʿarabiyya 24 (1398/1978), no. 1, pp. 25-40.
- ʾAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Ḥibšī, Fihris maḫṭūṭāt baʿḍ al-maktabāt al-ḫāṣṣa fī al-Yaman, London: Furqan Foundation, 1994, pp. 360-415. Link
- Sabine Schmidtke, Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915-2016) and His Personal Library. Cordoba: UCOPress, 2018.