Catalog of Arabic Manuscripts at Princeton University

Catalog of Arabic Manuscripts

at Princeton University

Libraries of American museums and universities are rich in masterpieces of the relics of our Arab and Islamic manuscript heritage, and several studies have been carried out to define their treasures and their contents, but the indexes of those libraries remained unknown to many investigators and researchers, and this is due to the fact that those indexes do not reach the Arab countries.

Among the most important manuscript treasuries in America is the treasury of Princeton University in the state of (New Jersey), which contains nearly ten thousand Arabic manuscripts.

Princeton University has issued three indexes describing the collected Arabic manuscripts from the year (1900 AD) to the year (1983 AD); Which:

– Index of the manuscripts of the Jarrett Collection, prepared by Philip Hitti, Nabih Amin Fares, and Boutros Abdel-Malik, and printed at the American Press in Beirut in the year (1938 AD).

– Index of Manuscripts of the Judea Department, prepared by Rudolf Mach, and printed in New Jersey at the University Press in the year (1977 AD).

– Index of the manuscripts of the new series, prepared by Rudolf Mach, and printed in New Jersey at the University Press in the year (1978 AD).

– Catalog of Manuscripts Not Indexed at Princeton University, prepared by Rudolf Mach, and printed in New Jersey at the University Press in 1987 AD. It included the notes that were not previously indexed from what the library obtained until the year 1995 AD by gift and purchase, as well as what was previously neglected from the sections other.

So these three indexes were Arabized with the new series and the following one on that, and made into one collection, including an indexing of our Arab and Islamic treasures.

The Saqifat al-Safa al-‘ilmiyyah presents to the Islamic nation these catalogs of Arabic and Islamic manuscripts in a splendid appearance; For the benefit of researchers and investigators.

We ask God to prepare those who shake dust and sand from these precious treasures, and to make them within the reach of scholars and students of knowledge, and to prepare for other libraries someone who does similar work, for He is All-Hearing and All-Responsible.

Praise be to God, whose good grace is completed