Some of Taco Roorda’s papers (99), letters from the collection of Johann Eberhard and Sebaldus Rau (235- VIII and IV) 46 and documents belonging to J. H. Kramers (only partially relating to Hebrew studies) were all bequeathed to the Library. The collection of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (see below) includes some of the papers of Everhard Scheidius (Acad. 101 and 217). On various occasions Oriental manuscripts from other collections were given or lent to the Leiden Library e.g. MSS Hebr. 97 and 98, along with 26 others 47 belonging to the Royal Library in The Hague. They were originally sent to Leiden on permanent loan but, at the request of Prof. M. J. de Goeje, they were officially transferred to the University Library on 5 Sept. 1873. The majority of these manuscripts (which include the Pentateuch commentary by Samuel Zarza, Hebr. 97) appear to have been acquired by the renowned collector Johan Meermann in 1763 from the Jesuit library in Paris or Clermont 48 . The polemical Sefer Ni??akon of Yom Tov Lipman Mühlhausen (Hebr. 98) also form ed part of the Royal Library’s gift but it had originally belonged to Gerbrand Ansloo, although it probably also reached the Royal Library via Meermann. Gerbrand Ansloo (1612-1642/3) was an Amsterdam linen-draper who had a fair knowledge of Hebrew. He was the pupil and friend of Manasse ben Israel and was a collector of Oriental manuscripts. When he died his library was auctioned and dispersed. One of his Hebrew manuscripts, Joseph ben Shem Tov Ibn Shem Tov’s c Ein ha-Qore, is now in the possession of Dr. G. H. A. Juynboll. The external characteristics of this manuscript closely resemble those of Hebr. 98 4 ». Ansloo’s collection also included Arabic manuscripts e.g. MS Or. 490, probably bought by Levinus Warner in Amster dam when Ansloo’s collection was auctioned 60 , and also the Utrecht MSS 1441 and 1450 which were possibly gifted to Utrecht University by Ansloo who had acquired

46. These came from S. J. E. Rau’s legacy which consisted of 22 different items (received on 28 Jan. 1888) plus some later additions (9 Febr. 1888). Three Arabic manuscripts had, in fact, originally belonged to the Library but had been lent to Prof. S. Rau. Since his house was completely destroyed when a cargo of gunpowder was exploded in the hold of a ship moored nearby, it was assumed that the manuscripts had also been destroyed. There is no doubt that MS Hebr. 126, another item in the legacy, had also originally belonged to the Library : it completes the text of Hebr. 87. The docu ments relating to S. J. E. Rau’s legacy are preserved in the Archives of the University Library (L.n. 17 : Stukken betreffende Legaat S. J. E. Rau 1888) and include a report on the transference of the legacy with references to relevant letters, a brief inventory by M. Th. Houtsma and some proof- sheets of Arabic and Turkish books. 47. Or. 2065-2093, see Cat. Codd. Or., V (1873) pp. 319-328. 48. See appendix IIA for the text of a letter from M. F. A. G. Campbell, then Librarian of the Royal Library, confirming the transfer; and appendix IIB for the text of another of his letters describing the history of the Jesuit MSS at Clermont (n.b. the manuscripts themselves bear the inscription "Coll. ParisQ) Societatis Jesu”). Both letters are preserved in the Archives of the Oriental Manuscripts Department of the Library. 4^- A full description of this MS together with a brief sketch of the author and his work is published in Bibliotheca Orientalis (1975). Since this MS is now on permanent loan in the Library a brief description is included in this catalogue. Another of his Hebrew MSS is MS Etz Haim 47 A 19 (Cat. Fuks (Leiden 1975) no. 327). 50. Levinus Warner and his legacy, pp. 17-18.