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Arabic manuscripts, or in a few cases, partly Arabic manuscripts, bought for ƒ9000.-. Mrs. J.H. Pels Rijcken of Leiden actually acted on behalf of Dr Qasim as-Samarra’I, an Iraqi scholar who has been living in Leiden since 1970, and was for some time employed by Leiden University as language teacher for Arabic. The manuscripts had been acquired, it seems, in Egypt. Turkish texts are found in Codices Or. 14.092, 14.105, and 14.114, described below. This acquisition took place in February 1974. Later in the decade more items were bought directly from Dr as-Samarra’I: Codices Or. 14.250, and 14.406-10, part of a larger, mostly Arabic, collection. Codices Or. 14.191 and 14.192 were purchased from Wasif ‘Abd ar-Rahman Shahid, a friend of Dr as-Samarra’L Archival documents contained in Or. 14.221-8 had been ‘found in the library’ in December 1974; they had been part of the Kramers Papers which were only then registered. Kramers was the Dutch orientalist, J.H. Kramers (1871-1951, see the introductions to Chapters 15 and 18 in Volume II). Three of these folders contain Turkish texts, both printed and handwritten. The bulk of the Kramers Papers, including a collection of letters, are found in Or. 18.094 and 18.100, registered in the course of 1983 (see the next chapter, below). Or. 14.377a is a box with card files compiled by the Leiden orientalist M.J. de Goeje (1836-1909) for a, never realized, catalogue of Turkish manuscripts kept in the University Libray. Or. 14.429 comprises three legal documents which had been part of the Snouck Hurgronje bequest; the orientalist, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), a student of De Goeije, was Kramers’ teacher at Leiden University (see also the introduction to Chapter 17, Volume II). Or. 14.456, acquired through the Leiden firm of E.J. Brill in April 1978 once must have belonged to the Heyman collection - Johannes Heyman (1667-1737) was also a Leiden orientalist who had been Protestant minister in Izmir where the manuscript was produced (see the introduction to Chapter 1, Volume II). Another small collection of manuscripts and other documents was acquired, partly as a gift, from F. de Jong, a Dutch orientalist and professor at Utrecht University. These materials, mostly unique and related to his research into süflorders, had been the fruit of extensive travels in south-eastern Europe and the Middle East (Codices Or. 14.385, 14.633-4). A large collection of, on the whole rather worn and well-thumbed, sometimes also incomplete or composite, manuscripts with texts in Arabic and, mostly, Turkish, was purchased from the Yugoslavian (Bosnian) scholar Salih Hajibegovid Alid in April 1979 for ƒ8,500.- (Codices Or. 14.554-85) - another part of his collection was purchased two years later (see the next chapter). Bom in Donje Mostre or Visoko in 1912 or 1913 - I rely here on, and quote from, a letter kindly sent to me by Hilary Kirkpatrick on 6 August 2001 - he studied at the al- Azhar in Cairo ‘in the 1930s with a view to working in a responsible position in the Muslim hierarchy in Bosnia... He got back in 1939 and was called up for military service. During the Second World War he seemed to have served as an