The Islamic manuscript collection has been acquired by Cambridge University Library from many sources over the period of the past four centuries. Most of these have been acquired from private donations and were originally closely allied with the start of Arabic teaching in the early seventeenth century. Many other collections followed and a chronology of significant donations is described with details of each donor and something of the contents of each collection. Major collections such as those of Erpenius, George Lewis, J.L. Burckhardt, E.H. Palmer and E.G. Browne are dealt with in more detail. Some important individual manuscripts are also described and examples are given of manuscripts with interesting codicology or illumination. A description of the collection’s management within the Library and a history of its cataloguing is also given.

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剑桥大学图书馆伊斯兰手稿收藏。来源与内容

过去四个世纪以来，剑桥大学图书馆从许多来源购买了伊斯兰手稿。其中大多数是从私人捐款中获得的，最初与17世纪初期阿拉伯语教学的开始紧密相关。随后出现了许多其他收藏，并描述了重要捐赠的时间顺序，其中包含每个捐赠者的详细信息以及每个收藏中的某些内容。诸如Erpenius，George Lewis，JL Burckhardt，EH Palmer和EG Browne的主要藏品都得到了更详细的介绍。还描述了一些重要的个人手稿，并给出了带有有趣的抄袭学或插图的手稿实例。还描述了馆藏中馆藏的管理以及其编目的历史。