The database “Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online, Pioneer Orientalists” is on trial for us until November 11, 2011! It may interest some of you as it entails digitized Arabic manuscripts from the Leiden University Library:

–          The collection of Joseph Justus Scaliger (d. 1609)

–          The collection of Franciscus Raphelengius (d. 1597)

–          The collection of Jacobus Golius (d. 1667) which is particularly famous for its manuscripts on Islamic science.

It’s accessible at the following address: http://www.primarysourcesonline.nl/c55/

Check it out and give us your feedback!