Illustrations
1 Groningen University Library, MS 468, verso of initial endpaper. The c. 17th-century copy of a German inscription once written into part of a maghribī Quran taken at the sack of Tunis in 1535 by Johannes Marquart von Kungbeck. (See p.32, n. 66 for transcription), with an Arabic inscription in the hand of Johann Heinrich Hottinger 33
2 Leiden University Library. Cod. Or. 222, fol. 1r. Don Bernardo de Josa’s Spanish inscription on a copy of Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī’s popular Hanafite legal compendium, Wiqāyat al-riwāya fī masā’il al-hidāya, explaining that he was given the manuscript by Guillén de San Clemente who had taken it at the battle of Lepanto on 7 October 1571. (See p.35, n. 76 for transcription) 36
3 Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Laud Or. 246, fol. 1r. i) The presentation inscription by the Hungarian Matthaeus Uÿfalvi on a plundered Quran he gave to Jakob Christmann. ii) Samson Johnson’s inscription, 1635. (See p.37, n. 82 for transcription) 39
4 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, MS A.F.5, fol. 117r. Abū ’l-Fidāʾ’s Taqwīm al-buldān, copied by Darwīsh Ibrāhīm in 1610 with annotations by Sebastian Tengnagel 59
5 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 9737r, fol. 229r. Tengnagel’s copy of his undated letter to Kaiser Matthias I (c. May 1613) 62
6 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, MS A.F.26, fol. 1r. Inscription by Sebastian Tengnagel in the Lughāt-i Amīr Ḥusayn al- Īyāsī, which Darwīsh Ibrāhīm copied in Jumādā I AH 1023 (June 1614) 64
7 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Arabe 4127, fol. 37v. Turkish inscription by François de Boulongne with transcription and translation initialled by Etienne Hubert 72
8 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Arabe 4119, fol. 25v. Qaṣīda fī abniyat al-afʿāl copied for Etienne Hubert by Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī at Paris on 4 Ṣafar 1021 (6 April 1612) 88
9 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Arabe 4348, fol. 128v. Arabic vocabulary copied by Ḥusayn of Buda (right) and Etienne Hubert (left). Transcriptions and Latin glosses by L’Auditeur Hubert or Ḥusayn of Buda 93
10 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Arabe 4127, fol. 36v. Inscription by Thomas Erpenius, dated Paris 1611, at the end of al-Ḥasanī’s al-Durra ’l-naḥwiyya 149
11 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Arabe 4127, fol. 32r. A detail from Al-Ḥasanī’s al-Durra ’l-naḥwiyya, with marginal annotations by Adriaan Willemsz. (signed Adr.) and Thomas Erpenius 150
12 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, 73.S.95(4), Jan Theunisz. (Johannes Antonides), Methodica descriptio coniugationum arabicarum perfectarum. Leiden, 1613. With annotations in the hand of Thomas Erpenius 152