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| Title: | Kraus, Paul. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1903-1996 |
| Size: | 23.25 linear feet (36 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | The Paul Kraus Papers contain writings, research material, and correspondence of Paul Kraus (1904-1944), a scholar of Semitic languages and medieval Islamic science and philosophy. Kraus was born in Prague and spent time at a variety of academic institutions in Europe and the Middle East. The collection consists largely of notes on Semitic languages, handwritten copies of manuscripts, translations and transcriptions, a small amount of correspondence, and writings by Kraus and other scholars. It includes a significant amount of material related to Kraus’ influential work on the body of writing attributed to medieval Islamic alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan. The material is mostly in French, German, and Arabic, although a variety of other languages, such as Akkadian, Pahlavi, and Hebrew, are also included. The collection also contains material from two other Semitic language scholars, Max Meyerhof (1874-1945), Kraus’ friend and collaborator, and Isidor Pollack (1874-1922), one of his early teachers. |
The collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Kraus, Paul. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Paul Kraus was a scholar of Semitic languages and medieval Islamic science and philosophy. His interests included the transmission of Greek scientific thought and philosophy to Arabic, and some of his most influential work was on the writings attributed to the medieval alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan, who Kraus argued had not existed as a single person. He primarily wrote in French, German, and Arabic, but studied a wide range of other languages, including Akkadian, Pahlavi, and Hebrew. Kraus was born in Prague and spent time at a variety of institutions in Europe and the Middle East, including Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the University of Berlin, the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and the Egyptian University in Cairo.
Paul Eliezer Kraus was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on December 11, 1904 to Sigmund Kraus and Henriette (Katz) Kraus. After completing grammar school in 1923, he studied at the Deutsche Universität in Prague until 1925, when he moved to Palestine as part of a group of Czech pioneers and joined a kibbutz. He became discontented with kibbutz life and in 1926 began studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, while also spending time at various other locations in the Middle East to purse Biblical Studies, Semitics and archaeology. In 1927 Kraus moved to the University of Berlin and completed his doctorate on Babylonian epistolography there, under the direction of Assyriologist Bruno Meissner. Following the completion of his degree, he remained in Berlin and began to develop an interest in the history of Islam and science, which he would continue to pursue for much of the rest of his career.
After learning that Jewish scholars were being dismissed from academic posts, Kraus left Berlin in 1933. He moved to Paris and spent time at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and Institut d’Historie des Sciences et des Techniques of the University of Paris. For the next three years, Kraus conducted research, wrote, and taught, but he could not obtain a permanent university position because he was not a French citizen. In 1936, he accepted a position at the Egyptian University in Cairo, renamed King Fuad I University in 1940, and later also taught at King Farouq I University in Alexandria. Kraus held teaching positions in Cairo until his death in 1944, although he continued to travel to locations such as Paris and Jerusalem to conduct research and present work to colleagues. In October 1944, Tāhā Husayn, his mentor and dean at King Fuad I University, resigned his position for political reasons. This led to Kraus being dismissed from his position. On October 12, 1944, shortly after learning that he had lost his job, Paul Kraus committed suicide in Cairo.
Kraus was married three times. In Palestine he married Hadassa Mednitzky, whom he later divorced. In Berlin, he directed the dissertation of Bettina Strauss, and they were later married. Bettina died in 1942 after giving birth to their daughter Jenny, who was raised and adopted by her uncle Leo Straus. Finally, in 1944, Kraus married Dorothee Metlitzki. He is survived by his daughter, Jenny Strauss Clay.
Much of the information in this note was drawn from Joel L. Kramer, "The Death of an Orientalist: Paul Kraus from Prague to Cairo," in the Jewish Discovery of Islam, ed. Martin Kramer (Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1999), 181-223. See this chapter for additional details on Kraus’ life and career.
The Paul Kraus Papers are organized into five series:
I. Numbered Notebooks
II. Unnumbered notebooks and envelopes
III. Manuscripts
IV. Notecards
V. Oversize
Series I, Numbered Notebooks, contains content written by Paul Kraus and other scholars, including notes, letters, drafts, offprints, transcriptions, translations, bibliographies, and handwritten copies of manuscripts. It is thought that Kraus wrote the titles on the notebooks, which generally reflect their subject matter, but that they were numbered after his death. The series ranges in date from 1913-1996, with the bulk dating from 1931-1943 and a large amount of undated material.
Series II, Unnumbered Notebooks and Envelopes, contains content similar to the numbered notebooks, including notes, letters, drafts, offprints, transcriptions, translations, and handwritten copies of manuscripts. The material ranges in date from 1903-1944, with a large amount of undated material.
Series III, Manuscripts, contains writing by Paul Kraus and other scholars. Many folders contain multiple manuscripts, by multiple authors, with related correspondence. At the end of the series are proofs, drafts, and miscellaneous material from Jabir ibn Hayyan - contribution à l’histoire des idees scientifiques dans l’Islam, perhaps Kraus’ most influential work. Following this are drafts and related material for Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis, an edition of Galen’s summary of Plato’s Timaeus that Kraus edited. The material ranges in date from 1933-1964, with the bulk dating from 1933-1944 and a significant amount of undated material.
Series IV, Notecards, contains undated, generally unordered notecards, many of which appear to contain bibliographical notes.
Series V, Oversize, contains material that is too large to fit in standard legal-sized folders, including material from Jabir ibn Hayyan - contribution à l’histoire des idees scientifiques dans l’Islam and Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis. It ranges in date from 1925-1944, with a signficant amount of undated material.
The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections:
Leo Strauss. Papers
A detailed Subject Catalog to the Paul Kraus Papers, prepared by David C. Reisman and Cara Lia Sargent in 2003, is also available.
Series I: Numbered Notebooks |
This series contains numbered notebooks whose condition and content varies widely. It is thought that Kraus wrote the titles on the notebooks, which generally reflect their subject matter, but that they were numbered after his death. In many cases, notebook covers have come apart from their contents, some notebooks appear to be incomplete or empty, and in some cases a significant amount of loose material has been inserted. Although some notebooks are titled with a particular subject, many cover a variety of topics, and material from some of the subjects that Kraus worked on most frequently is spread throughout many notebooks. The content, produced by Paul Kraus and other scholars, includes notes, letters, drafts, offprints, transcriptions, translations, bibliographies, and handwritten copies of manuscripts. It ranges in date from 1913-1996, with the bulk dating from 1931-1943 and a large amount of undated material.
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Notebook 20 – “Kap. 2,” typewritten draft on Arabic science and philosophy, first line “Die Frage nach dem Fortleben der griechischen wissenschaften ...” sections I, II, VI, VII, undated
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| Box 1 Folder 2-3 | Notebook 22? [possibly changed to/from 92?]– “Sciences grecques,” and Jabir materials, October 1933, undated
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| Box 1 Folder 4 | Notebook 22 covers, with some sketches, found empty, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Notebook 30, “Apollonius de Tyane en Orient,” undated [found with notebook 170]
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| Box 1 Folder 6 | Envelope 32, addressed to Monsieur Pines, Paris, empty |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Notebook 33 – “Nous holikos,” undated
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| Box 1 Folder 8-9 | Notebook 34 – “Politique. Platon” – manuscripts, notes, clippings, and correspondence, including with Leo Strauss, undated [appears to contain parts of Notebooks 283, 284, and 286]
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| Box 1 Folder 10 | Notebook 35, “Theologie d’Aristote,” notes and correspondence, 1935, undated
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| Box 1 Folder 11 | Notebook 39 - Sijistani, Abu Sulayman, handwritten draft of paper on Siwan al-hikma, handwritten copy [partial] of the Mukhtasar, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Notebook 41, “Fragm. de Plotin §1-46,” Plotinus - French translation and notes of Ps.-Aristotle, Theology, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | Notebook 42, “Fragm. de Plotin §47-103,” - Plotinus - French translation and notes of Ps.-Aristotle, Theology, undated |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Notebook 43, “Fragm. de Plotin §104-168,” undated
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| Box 2 Folder 2 | Notebook 44, “Fragm. de Plotin §169-fin,” undated
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| Box 2 Folder 3 | Notebook 46, “Jabir,” typescripts and page proofs, 1933, undated
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| Box 2 Folder 4 | Notebook 49 – Galen proofs and related letter, 1943, undated
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| Box 2 Folder 5 | Notebook 50, “Timée Arabe,” found empty, undated |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Notebook 54, “Traductions. ms. Yeni Cami 1179” – handwritten copies and translations of passages, undated |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Notebook 55 – “Ibn Rušd. - Mittl. Kommentar zur Hermeneutik (Arab. Text. m. Varianten) (Kairo, Leyden, Florenz),” Hebrew text and letters, 1937, undated
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| Box 2 Folder 8 | Notebooks 57/1, 57/5, 57/6, and 57/7, notes and letter, undated
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| Box 2 Folder 9 | Notebooks 57/2, 57/3, and 57/4, notes, undated
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| Box 2 Folder 10 | Notebook 79, handwritten copy of unidentified manuscript of Ibn Rushd, Comm. Aristotle, al-Hass wa-al-Mahsus, part of al-Maqala al-Thalitha, undated |
| Box 2 Folder 11-12 | Notebook 83, “Organon,” - handwritten draft of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Arabic, with some interlinear Greek; includes notes on manuscript variants [manuscript Paris 2346?], undated |
| Box 2 Folder 13 | Notebook 85 – typescripts and handwritten copies and drafts, undated
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| Box 2 Folder 14 | Notebook 87 – Jabir b. Hayyan, general notes, undated |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Notebook 88, “Gaubari, Al-Mukhtar min Kashf al-Asrar, MS Leiden,” notes, drafts, and letters, undated
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| Box 3 Folder 2 | Notebook 89 – draft of “Gabir’s Buch der specifischen Eigenschaften” with German translation of parts of “K.H.” [Kitab al-Khawass], and handwritten notes [“Studien zu Jabir ibn Hayyan”?], undated
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| Box 3 Folder 3-4 | Notebook 91, “Schr.,” in notebook “Tatimma Copie” – Gabir typescripts with handwritten notes, undated
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| Box 3 Folder 5 | Notebook 92, “Les sciences grecques en Islam” – typed and handwritten drafts of chapters 1-11, with handwritten edits, undated
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| Box 3 Folder 6 | Notebook 93 – notes, translation, and copy, undated
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| Box 3 Folder 7 | Notebook 96 – general notes on Jabir, Kitab al-Sumum, undated |
| Box 3 Folder 8-9 | Notebook 100, “Iran,” with notebooks 17, 2, 250, and 264 inserted, 1941, undated
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| Box 4 Folder 1-2 | Notebook 101, “Catalogues,” 1937-1939, undated
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| Box 4 Folder 3 | Notebook 103, “L’Islam et les sciences grecques – conférences à l’Inst. d’Hist des Sciences, Paris 1934,” found empty, 1934 |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Notebook 104, partial cover, found empty, undated |
| Box 4 Folder 5 | Notebook 108, “MSS Alexandrie,” containing three notebooks with notes on manuscript from Alexandria (in situ research) |
| Box 4 Folder 6 | Notebook 110, “Jabir Kitab al-bahth” [empty]; unrelated, handwritten, unidentified manuscript [Aya Sofya 4821?], Suhrawaradi, R. Sawt...Jibra’il, undated |
| Box 4 Folder 7-9 | Notebook 111, general notes - lexicographical notes to the technical terminology in Kitab al-Sumum, undated |
| Box 4 Folder 10 | Notebook 112, “Additions to Jabir I-II,” cover, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 1-3 | Notebook 112, “Additions to Jabir I-II,” undated
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| Box 5 Folder 4-5 | Notebook 113, “G[abir] Bibl. CXII,” notes and letters, 1931-1932, undated
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| Box 5 Folder 6 | Notebook 115, “Gabir, ”Jabir b. Hayyan, general notes, undated |
| Box 5 Folder 7-8 | Notebook 116, notes on and copies of manuscripts, 1937, undated
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| Box 5 Folder 9 | Notebook 118, handwritten copy of passages and notes, undated
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| Box 6 Folder 1-2 | Notebook 120, typed and handwritten drafts and notes for “Jabir ibn Hayyan - contribution a l’histoire des idees scientifiques dans l’Islam,” undated
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| Box 6 Folder 3 | Notebook 123, “Bibliographie critique de oeuvres de Jabir” [=Jabir, I?], typed, from Memoires de l’Institut d’Égypte, t. XLIV, undated
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| Box 6 Folder 4 | Notebook 124, undated [1 of 6]
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| Box 6 Folder 5 | Notebook 124, undated [2 of 6]
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| Box 6 Folder 6 | Notebook 124, undated [3 of 6]
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| Box 7 Folder 1 | Notebook 124, undated [4 of 6]
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| Box 7 Folder 2 | Notebook 124, undated [5 of 6]
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| Box 7 Folder 3 | Notebook 124, undated [6 of 6]
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| Box 7 Folder 4 | Notebook 126, Ruska, Julius [?], typewritten copy of German translation of Ibn al-Nadim’s Fihrist, chapter 10 - “Kapitel - Geschichte der alten und modernen Chemiker und Alchemisten und den Philosophen,” followed by handwritten copy of passages from manuscripts Shehid Ali Pasha 1934, Koprulu 1135, undated
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| Box 7 Folder 5 | Notebook 128, “Jabir 1,” notes, copies, outlines, and letters, 1925, 1931, undated
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| Box 7 Folder 6 | Notebook 129, copies, notes, and translations, undated
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| Box 7 Folder 7 | Notebook 130, “Bibliographia. Introd.,” notes, texts, and letters, 1931, 1932, undated
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| Box 7 Folder 8 | Notebook 132, “Aristotle - handwritten draft of transmission of his works through Andronicus of Rhodes,” undated
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| Box 7 Folder 9 | Notebook 134, “Razi,” Abu Hatim al-Razi - typewritten translation of Kitab A’lam al-Nubuwwa, undated
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| Box 7 Folder 10 | Notebook 140, single page - handwritten copy of unidentified medical work [commentary?], with provisional critical apparatus, page 10, undated |
| Box 7 Folder 11 | Notebook 141, “Mohamed Shams el-Din the oculist,” translation [Shams al-Din, ‘Ayn al-dawa’], 94 pages, undated
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| Box 7 Folder 12 | Notebook 142, translations and drafts, 1932, undated
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| Box 8 Folder 1-2 | Notebook 150, “Isl. Wissensch. Ubersetzung,” notes on Graeco-Arabic translations of scientific and philosophical works, terminology, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 3 | Notebook 151, “Isl. Wiss. Einleitung Voraussetzinge,” notes on Graeco-Arabic translations of scientific and philosophical works, Abbasid caliphs, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 4 | Notebook 152, handwritten copy of manuscript Cairo Dar al-Kutub 7M, Suli, Kitab fi al-Shatranj, with diagrams, pages 1-56, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 5 | Notebook 153, handwritten copy of manuscript Cairo Dar al-Kutub 7M, Suli, Kitab fi al-Shatranj, with diagrams, pages 57-115, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 6 | Notebook 154, handwritten copy of manuscript Cairo Dar al-Kutub 7M, Suli, Kitab fi al-Shatranj, with diagrams, pages 116-173, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 7 | Notebook 155, handwritten copy of manuscript Cairo Dar al-Kutub 7M, Suli, Kitab fi al-Shatranj, with diagrams, pages 174-218, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 8 | Notebook 158, handwritten copy by Mahmud Siddiqi of unidentified manuscript, Ja’far al-Sadiq [al-Mufaddal ibn ‘Umar], Tawhid al-Mufaddal, pages 120-131 |
| Box 8 Folder 9 | Notebook 160, notes on and contents lists of manuscripts in the collection Dar al-Kutub Taymur Hikma, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 10 | Notebook 161, “MSS Caire,” notes on and contents of lists of manuscripts in the collections Dar al-Kutub Taymur Hikma and Tal’at, undated |
| Box 8 Folder 11 | Notebook 162, “Comments Phonetique arabe,” drafts, notes, scripts, transcriptions, and letters, 1933, 1942, undated [1 of 2]
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| Box 9 Folder 1 | Notebook 162, “Comments Phonetique arabe,” drafts, notes, scripts, transcriptions, and letters, 1933, 1942, undated [2 of 2]
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| Box 9 Folder 2 | Notebook 163, notes, copies, drafts, and letters, 1917, 1938, 1943-1944, undated
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| Box 9 Folder 3 | Notebook 164, “Inde et Islam,” India and Islam notes, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | Notebook 165, untitled draft of “Etudes sur les metres semitiques,” with particular reference to Arabic grammar, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 5 | Notebook 166, “Gr. arabe,” undated
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| Box 9 Folder 6 | Notebook 169, notes on Pahlavi texts, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 7 | Notebook 170 [Part I? – found with notebook 30], undated
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| Box 9 Folder 8 | Notebook 170 [Part II?], “Etudes Pehlevi-arabe,” undated
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| Box 9 Folder 9 | Notebook 171, Jahiz - handwritten copies of passages from his Kitab al-Hayawan, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 10 | Notebook 172, notes on Arabic language and notes on Hebrew, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 11 | Notebook 172? [partial], notes on Pahlavi texts, and notebook 231?, transliteration of Leviticus 16, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | Notebook 174, handwritten draft of Arabic article on the development of Arabic grammar, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | Notebook 175, undated
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| Box 10 Folder 3 | Notebook 176, “Civilisation Musulmane,” handwritten draft of “Civilisation grecque et musulmane à l’occasion de la preface de Bedawi à sa traduction Al-Turath al-Yunani,” undated |
| Box 10 Folder 4 | Notebook 178, “MS Leyde,” notes and handlists of Leiden manuscript, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 5 | Notebook 179, “Iraq,” notes and bibliography, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 6 | Notebook 180, “Le Sceau de Joseph bar Matta,” empty, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 7 | Notebook 181, “Nusayris Druzes,” Shi’ism. Notes on Nusayris and Druzes, transcriptions of passages from manuscripts Paris 1449 and 1450, with notes on Iamblicus, Galen, Plotinus, Theon of Smyrna, Porphyry, Ptolemy, undated |
| Box 10 Folder 8 | Notebook 182, “Atomisme,” notes on atomism, Greek influence (Democrates), early Mu’tazila, undated
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| Box 10 Folder 9 | Notebook 183, “Khayyat, Intisar,” drafts and translations, undated
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| Box 10 Folder 10 | Notebook 184, summary, notes, offprint, and letter, 1936, 1939, undated
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| Box 10 Folder 11 | Notebook 185, notes and letter, 1940, undated
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| Box 10 Folder 12 | Notebook 186, “Philosoph,” undated
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| Box 11 Folder 1-2 | Notebook 187, “Adonai helios” [in Greek], handwritten draft of paper on origins of alphabets/history of writing, with notes, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 3 | Notebook 188, “Syriaque,” notes on Syriac; lexical notes to Bar Hebraeus, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 4-5 | Notebook 189, “Jabir -- auteurs grecs,” general notes, undated |
| Box 11 Folder 6-7 | Notebook 190, draft, copy, and notes, undated
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| Box 12 Folder 1-2 | Notebook 191, “Abu’l Hudhail,” 1932, 1943, undated
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| Box 12 Folder 3 | Notebook 192, “Nazzam,” notes, undated |
| Box 12 Folder 4 | Notebook 193, “Philosophie (divers),” philosophy, miscellaneous notes, undated |
| Box 12 Folder 5 | Notebook 194, “Mu’tazila,” undated
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| Box 12 Folder 6 | Notebook 197, “Gahiz Entstehung der G. sch. Wiss.,” 1938, 1941, undated
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| Box 12 Folder 7 | Notebook 199, “Ibn Wahshijja,” draft, notes, and copies, 1921, undated
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| Box 12 Folder 8 | Notebook 212, “Einzel... Aufklarung,” notes and offprints, 1921-1934, undated
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| Box 13 Folder 1 | Notebook 213, “Bagdader ...,” notes and draft, undated
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| Box 13 Folder 2 | Notebook 214, “Critique texuelle,” teaching - handwritten Arabic lectures on textual criticism, November 14, 1936, undated |
| Box 13 Folder 3 | Notebook 215, “Samaw’al,” paper and notes, undated
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| Box 13 Folder 4-6 | Notebook 218, copies, drafts, notes, and letters, 1936-1943, undated
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| Box 13 Folder 7 | Notebook 220, “Bibliogr. pour Z. Razi,” notes, copies, and letter, 1936, undated
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| Box 13 Folder 8 | Notebook 220 [part 2?], typewritten drafts, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 1 | Notebook 222, Biruni’s list of Razi’s works [Risala li-Biruni] and typewritten copy [incomplete] of Kitab A’lam al-Nubuwwa, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 2 | Notebook 223, “Al-Hallaj,” empty, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 3 | Notebook 224, back cover, empty, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 4 | Notebook 225, empty, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 5 | Notebook 226, “Pronom semitique,” notes on Semitic pronouns, verbal suffixes, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 6 | Notebook 227[a], “Lampes suspendres,” information on lamps used in ancient synagogues, including drawings, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 7 | Notebook 227[b], “Notes diverses, journal, metres, etc.,” teaching notes, journal entry, and clipping, 1940, 1942-1943, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 8 | Notebook 229, library notes and letters, 1940, 1942, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 9 | Notebook 231, notes, transcription, and transliteration, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 10 | Notebook 232, Hebrew and Arabic notes and copy, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 11 | Notebook 233, “Debora,” typed transliteration of “Deboralied” [from E. Sievers, “Der Textaufbau der griech. Evangelien,” Abh. ph.-hist. Kl. Sä. Ak. Wiss., 1931, pages 3-5], with marginal comments on transliteration, French transl., and Arabic equivalents, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 12 | Notebook 234, “Liber Jonae,” printed copy of Hebrew text of Jonah pasted into notebook pages, “Caput I-III (aleph-gimmel),” undated |
| Box 14 Folder 13 | Notebook 235, “Numeri Moise,” printed copy of Hebrew text of Numeri pasted into notebook pages, “Caput XI-XIV,” undated |
| Box 14 Folder 14 | Notebook 236, “Mishna,” handwritten copy of unidentified Mishna [Zera’im?], numbered I1-I10a, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 15 | Notebook 237, “Dtn.,” printed copy of Hebrew text of Deuteronomium pasted into notebook pages, IX-XXV, XXVII, and handwritten copy of Dtn. XXVI, undated |
| Box 14 Folder 16 | Notebook 238, “metre arabes,” 1943, undated [found inside notebook 242]
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| Box 14 Folder 17 | Notebook 240 and others, notes and transcription, 1931-1932, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 18 | Notebook 241, “Sardanapal et Gyges,” translation and lists of manuscripts, undated
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| Box 14 Folder 19 | Notebook 242, “Sud-arabique,” with notebooks 262-263 inserted, 1940, undated
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| Box 15 Folder 1 | Notebook 243, handwritten copies, 1931-1932, undated
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| Box 15 Folder 2 | Notebook 244, “Ha-atad” [in Hebrew], bibliographical notes on the term Ha-atad, undated |
| Box 15 Folder 3 | Notebook 245, “Pehlevi,” notes, bibliography, and texts on Pahlavi, including quotations of Arabic authors; negative photocopy of Denkard [publication unknown]; and draft of a paper on Sassanian aristocratic families at the Abbasid court, undated |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | Notebook 246, “Inscription de Shapur I. (Kaabah Zoroaster),” transliteration and Greek translation of inscription of Shapur I, with lexical notes, undated |
| Box 15 Folder 5 | Notebook 247, “Kartir,” English translation with some transliteration of inscription of Shapur/Kartir, undated |
| Box 15 Folder 6 | Notebook 248, transliteration “Draxt [i] asurik,” undated [first page - le metre et le basit = rajaz de Aban!!] |
| Box 15 Folder 7 | Notebook 249, “Inscription en Vieux-perse,” transliteration of the Daiva inscription of Xerxes, undated |
| Box 15 Folder 8-9 | Notebook 251, “Lettres babyl. de l’epoque de Hammurapi VS XVI,” transliterations of VS XVI (VAT); pages of handwritten Arabic, lexical notes on the verb k.h.r.b., undated |
| Box 15 Folder 10 | Notebook 252, “Gilgamesh,” transliteration of Gilgamesh, Assyrian version, undated
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| Box 15 Folder 11 | Notebook 253 - lexicographical and bibliographical notes on the name Hammurapi; transliterations of letters of Hammurapi, middle Assyrian letters, Belibni letters, and Qohelet assyrien; notes on Code of Hammurabi, undated |
| Box 15 Folder 12 | Notebook 254, “Babylonian wisdom (Babyl. VII, p. 163-194),” transliteration and translation, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | Notebook 255, “Langdon Atana (Babyl. XII p. 7-52),” transliterations and English and German translations of Langdon, Atana; copy of German translation of W. von Soden, ZA 45 (1939), pages 42-61, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | Notebook 256, “T.A.,” [Tel el- Aamarna], mostly empty notebook, containing one notecard with line in Arabic and blank page possibly from notebook 240, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | Notebook 257, handwritten copy with some transcription of V AB A, cols. I-III; fragment C; V ABD (= suite C), undated |
| Box 16 Folder 4 | Notebook 259, “RS [Rash Shamra] (‘Anat et Ba’al),” handwritten copy, partial transliteration and notes of IV AB col. I-III; V AB col. I-IV, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | Notebook 260, “Dieux gracieux,” handwritten copy and notes, Les chasses de Baal (= BH) (Syria XVI 247ff); letter of Ewishar; The Rebellion and Death of Baal, Tablet II, col. 7, ll. 42-50; others; Ras Shamra |
| Box 16 Folder 6 | Notebook 261, “Saadia,” handwritten copies of passages from Saadia, [Arabic translation and commentary, Psalms], undated |
| Box 16 Folder 7 | Notebook 267, “Notes de Grammaire Arabe,” Quran, bibliographical notes for I’jaz al-Quran and Arabic grammatical works, undated |
| Box 16 Folder 8 | Notebook 268, “5 - Hamza Isfahani,” notes, undated
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| Box 16 Folder 9 | Notebook 269, “6 - L’idee du Progres,” notes, copies, paper, and letter, 1935, undated
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| Box 16 Folder 10 | Notebook 271, “Notes sur un ms. de Hariri,” notes on manuscript Cairo Dar al-Kutub Tal’at Adab 4479 with handwritten copy of passages, colophon, and ownership notes indicating perhaps a copy of the author’s autograph, undated [found in notebook 191/270] |
| Box 16 Folder 11 | Notebook 272 and others, notes and draft, undated
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| Box 16 Folder 12-13 | Notebook 273, “Tauhidi,” notes, drafts, and copies, 1944, undated
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| Box 17 Folder 1 | Notebook 274, “Neopl” [Neoplatonism], Nemesius - notes to De Natura Hominis, with relation to Nazzam, Jabir, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Thabit b. Qurra, Ibn Sina; notes on Iamblicus and Porphyry, undated |
| Box 17 Folder 2 | Notebook 275, “Urdu,” with notebooks “Al Qarafi Einleitung” and “Hygenica selecta ex libro Al-Dschami ‘as-Sahih ...” notes, offprint, and draft, 1913, undated
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| Box 17 Folder 3 | Notebook 276, “Mystik,” Sufism notes, mysticism notes, and draft, undated
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| Box 17 Folder 4 | Notebook 277, “Shi’a,” notes and copies, undated
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| Box 17 Folder 5 | Notebook 278, “Notices et extraits, Etudes linguistiques, 17,” notes on Semitic words, undated |
| Box 17 Folder 6 | Notebook 279, “Geographes arabes,” notes on Arabic geographers, Biruni, and Ptolemy; notes on pre-Islamic Arab geography, undated
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| Box 17 Folder 7 | Notebook 280, “Mss. en Caire,” notes and copies, undated
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| Box 17 Folder 8-9 | Notebook 281, “Extraits,” copies and notes, undated
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| Box 18 Folder 1-3 | Notebook 282, “Ihwan as-Safa’,” Ikhwan al-Safa’, notes, divided thematically, undated |
| Box 18 Folder 4 | Notebook 287, “Numerals” - Benveniste, Em. “Grammaire Comparee Morphologie numerale” thesis (College de France, 1935-1936), author’s original |
| Box 18 Folder 5 | Notebook 288, “Rafi’a al-Khatib ...” [in Arabic], handwritten copy of Rafi’a al-Khatib, “Fiqh al-Lugha,” undated |
| Box 18 Folder 6-7 | Notebook 289, “bibl. Revues,” bibliographies and tables of contents, undated
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| Box 19 Folder 1-3 | Notebook 290, handwritten paper [lecture?] in Arabic entitled “Qawa’id ‘Ilm al-Aswat, parts I, II, IV” [by Kraus?], Semitic phonetics, circa 150 half pages, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 4-6 | Notebook 291, “Razi,” notes, copies, reviews, and letters, 1939, 1943, undated
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| Box 19 Folder 7 | Notebook 292, “Ibn Bibi 227,” with inner notebook, “Farabi,” undated |
| Box 19 Folder 8 | Notebook 293, “Rgg.,” notes in German on Greek philosophy, Christian theology, scholasticism, Manichaeism, and Gnosticism, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 9 | Notebook 294 [title illegible], notes in German on Byzantium, list of emperors; pre-Islamic Arabs and early Islam, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 10 | Notebook 295, notes in German on Graeco-Arabic philosophy and early Islamic theology, undated |
| Box 19 Folder 11 | Notebook 296, lexicographical notes on Arabic philosophy, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 1 | Notebook 297, handlists of manuscripts in Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 2 | Notebook 298, notes on Mu’tazila from Ash’ari, al-Maqalat, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 3 | Notebook 299, “Griech. Philos.,” notes in German on Greek philosophers, undated |
Series II: Unnumbered Notebooks and Envelopes |
This series contains material from unnumbered notebooks and envelopes. Just as with the numbered notebooks, their condition varies widely. Many covers have come apart from inner pages, many have a significant amount of loose material inserted, and many appear to be collections of several smaller notebooks or loose collections of paper. The content, written by Paul Kraus and other scholars, includes notes, letters, drafts, offprints, transcriptions, translations, and handwritten copies of manuscripts. The notebooks were generally left in the order in which they were found at the time of processing, with the series beginning with a general alphabetical order and ending with more miscellaneous and empty notebooks and envelopes. The material ranges in date from 1903-1944, with a large amount of undated material.
| Box 20 Folder 4 | Notebook “Afrahat,” notes on Syriac, Hebrew, and Arabic, with some Latin, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 5 | “Bericht uber die Tätigkeit der Abteilung Istanbul,” typewritten yearly report, 1933-1935 [by H. Ritter? For ZDMG?]; notes to Brockelmann, GAL, 3 scraps, undated [see Orientalia, N. S. VI-VII (1937-9), 283-289, 284-288] |
| Box 20 Folder 6 | Bibliography concerning Graeco-Arabic translations, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 7 | “Farabi,” notecards with references, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 8 | “Grammaire arabe,” notebook cover, found empty, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 9 | “Gramm. Syr.” - notes on Syriac grammar [related to notebook 188?]; Jabir b. Hayyan, general notes |
| Box 20 Folder 10 | “Ibn al-Rawandi,” notebook cover, found empty, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 11 | “Kraus,” notes on astrology, undated
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| Box 20 Folder 12 | “Manichéisme,” and other loose and untitled notes, including Jabir b. Hayyan and al-Mizan al-Saghir, with German translation of [Kitab al-Hudud?] [=“Studien zu Gabir”?]; Ibn al-Rawandi, typewritten draft on dualism, undated |
| Box 20 Folder 13 | Notebook with handwritten manuscripts, undated
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| Box 20 Folder 14 | “Razi” - Abu Bakr al-Razi, general notes, undated |
| Box 21 Folder 1 | “Recherches X.XII -- Plotinus Fasc. I,” notes, undated
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| Box 21 Folder 2-3 | “Le Sceau de Joseph bar Matta,” notes, photographs, and negatives, 1940, undated
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| Box 21 Folder 4 | “Shihabal Din al Karafi,” [Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi] – translation and letters, 1915, 1916, undated
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| Box 21 Folder 5 | “TA transcription phonetique” [Tel el-Amarna], transcriptions of Akkadian documents, Tel el-Amarna letters Kn 17, 17a, 280, 281, 282, 278, 279 (Shuuardata); Th. D. [Thureau-Dangin] 6, undated |
| Box 21 Folder 6 | Tel el-Amarna and other topics, untitled partial notebook, undated
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| Box 21 Folder 7 | “TA - A Th. Dangin” [Thureau-Dangin] – Tel el-Amarna letters and notes; transcriptions of ancient Egyptian [reference to Erman, ÄZ 27 (1889), 63], undated |
| Box 21 Folder 8-9 | Tel el-Amarna letters and other topics, untitled notebook, undated
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| Box 21 Folder 10 | Handlists of manuscripts at Cambridge, Leiden, Gotha, and Paris; notes on Hebrew, with Arabic transliteration of SE [?] 90, 99, 101, 123, undated [loose papers found together] |
| Box 21 Folder 11 | Loose miscellaneous papers, including some from Meyerhof
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| Box 21 Folder 12 | Photographs and letters, 1939, undated
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| Box 21 Folder 13 | Notes, mostly on manuscripts; draft of review and letter, circa 1941, undated
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| Box 21 Folder 14 | Notes on Hebrew and Arabic, comparative lexicographical notes, undated [1 of 2] |
| Box 22 Folder 1 | Notes on Hebrew and Arabic, comparative lexicographical notes, undated [2 of 2] |
| Box 22 Folder 2-3 | Offprints and drafts, including Paul Kraus, 1903-circa 1944, undated
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| Box 22 Folder 4 | Transliteration of Sanherib [Sennacherib] |
| Box 22 Folder 5 | Bibliographical notes on Graeco-Arabic philosophy; notes on Hebrew [from notebook 172?]; handlists of manuscripts in Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale [from notebook 297?], undated |
| Box 22 Folder 6 | Letters, handwritten copies, and report, including from Meyerhof, 1933, 1939, undated
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| Box 22 Folder 7 | Handlists of manuscripts with copy of unpublished catalogue of Ma’had al-Makhtutat microfilms, undated [photocopies] |
| Box 22 Folder 8 | Two handwritten letters in French – one signed “R.,” with rubbing of a seal, mentions Mrs. Picard and Avnimelech, May 15, 1937; one unsigned, possibly “R.” to or from Jerusalem, May 2, 1939 |
| Box 22 Folder 9 | Envelope addressed to Isidor Pollak, Prague; handwritten note on envelope “Saadja;” brief note enclosed; undated |
| Box 22 Folder 10 | Empty envelope addressed to Meyerhof, with note “Badigurus, Fi Abdal al-Adwiyah al-Mufradah, MS Aya Sofya 4838…” |
| Box 22 Folder 11 | Empty envelope, addressed to Meyerhof, with note, “Fragmente de manuscripts arabes medicaux divers,” 1940 |
| Box 22 Folder 12 | Empty envelope, with notes “1) Abu Sahl al-Masihi, K. al-Iqtidaf; 2) al-Mu’alagat al-buqratijja; 3) Arjuza von Ibn Sina,” undated |
| Box 22 Folder 13 | Empty envelope, with note “Ibn Butlan - Ibn Ridwan, Handschriften – Photos,” undated |
| Box 22 Folder 14 | Piece of cardstock, with image possibly removed, Arabic caption, and note, “To face p.8,” undated |
Series III: Manuscripts |
This series contains manuscripts by Paul Kraus and other scholars. It was generally left in the order found at the time of processing. Many of the folders contain multiple manuscripts, by multiple authors, as well as related correspondence. At the end of the series is a collection of papers from what is perhaps Kraus’ most well-known work, Jabir ibn Hayyan - contribution à l’histoire des idees scientifiques dans l’Islam. This includes typed and handwritten drafts, proofs, and miscellaneous material that was found with it. Following this are drafts and related material for Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis, an edition of Galen’s summary of Plato’s Timaeus that Kraus edited. There are additional Jabir and Galen manuscripts in the Oversize Series. The material ranges in date from 1933-1964, with the bulk dating from 1933-1944 and a significant amount of undated material.
| Box 22 Folder 15 | Drafts, notes, and offprint, 1934-1935, undated
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| Box 22 Folder 16 | “Ibn Rushd. Mittl. Kommentar zur Hermeneutik (Hebr. Text m. Var. Florenz, Munchen, Berlin, Wien),” hand- and typewritten draft, incomplete, undated
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| Box 22 Folder 17 | “Introduction a la lecture de Platon I. Le Dialogue” and “Introduction a la lecture de Platon II. La Politique” [by Kraus?], hand- and typewritten draft, undated |
| Box 22 Folder 18 | Proofs, hand and typewritten drafts, and table of contents, undated; note, 1939
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| Box 22 Folder 19 | “Jabir Ibn Hajjan - Das Buch der Gifte,” typewritten German translation with handwritten edits, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 1-2 | Translations, handwritten Arabic copy, and French summary, undated
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| Box 23 Folder 3 | Anonymous [perhaps Husain, Syed Abbas; see Correspondence] typed and handwritten catalogue of manuscripts, probably Indian, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 4 | “Muhamad Shams-el-Din the oculist,” handwritten study and English translation of Shams al-Din’s ‘Ayn al-Dawa,’ 156 pages, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 5 | “Le Menteur (Ensemble et Categorie),” typed and handwritten drafts, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 6-7 | “Les sciences grecques en Islam,” sections I, II, IV, typewritten paper, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 8 | “Ibn al-Nafis materialiem,” including manuscripts by and letters to Max Meyerhoff, 1933, undated
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| Box 23 Folder 9 | “Pro Psalmis. Defense de l’aspect qu’assume l’idee dans les langues semitiques,” typewritten draft and carbon copy, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 10 | Gardet, L., “Quelques aspects de la pensee avicennienne dans ses rapports avec l’orthodoxie musulmane - II. Mystique avicennienne,” typewritten manuscript with handwritten edits, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 11-12 | J. Schacht and M. Meyerhof, “Al-Risala al-Kamiliyyah,” typewritten drafts with handwritten corrections, undated [includes introduction and translation of “The Treatise relating to Kamil on the Life-History of the Prophet by Ibn an-Nafis”] [2 copies] |
| Box 23 Folder 13 | “Ibn an-Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs,” typewritten draft with handwritten corrections, undated |
| Box 23 Folder 14 | ‘Amiri, Abu al-Hasan - notes for a study of his Kitab al-Ibsar wa-al-Mubsar, including notes on manuscript British Museum Or. 5907, undated |
| Box 24 Folder 1 | Draft and letters – Plotinus, IFAO, and Ivanov, 1943, 1964, undated
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| Box 24 Folder 2 | Bergstraesser, Gotthelf, handcopy with notes of manuscript [DMG Library?] 17 Dresdenis, Insitutiones medicae ..., Yadgar Ibn al-Sharif, 92 pages; Jacob, Georg, note to Bergstraesser, stating that manuscript Bergstraesser requested has been sent, undated |
| Box 24 Folder 3 | Envelope from H. Ritter to Kraus, postmarked April 4, 1939, containing two handwritten copies of manuscripts: unidentified manuscript (141 Tibb?), al-Tabari (?), Muntakhab min Kitab al-Mu’alajat al-Buqratiyya fi ‘Ilal al-Atfal, Amrad al-’Ayn, signed by Mahmud Siddiqi; and part of unidentified manuscript (Istanbul), al-Masihi, Kitab al-Iqtidab [probably by Mahmud Siddiqi], undated |
| Box 24 Folder 4-5 | Mu’tazilism - general notes; Nazzam – notes and handwritten draft of article in Arabic [“Min Minbar al-Sharq,” al-Thaqafa 226 (1943), 11-13], undated |
| Box 24 Folder 6 | Handwritten copy of part of manuscript Munich, Cod. ar. Monacensis 832, folios 6v-13r Da’ud b. Abi al-Bayan, al-Dustur al-Maristani; handwritten copy of part of Cod. ar. Petrop. 173, folios 144v-151r, al-Zahrawi, Kitab al-Tasrif, undated |
| Box 24 Folder 7 | Handwritten copy of part of manuscrit P.J.R. 1004 [?], folios 1r-8v, unidentified medical text, undated |
| Box 24 Folder 8 | Handwritten copy of part of manuscript Munich, Cod. ar. Monacensis 832, folios 1v-6r, Da’ud b. Abi al-Bayan, al-Dustur al-Maristani, undated |
| Box 24 Folder 9 | Handwritten copies - part of Cod. arab. Dres. 209 [Kopenhagen 109?], folio 2r-3r, Ibn al-Jazzar, Zad al-Musafir; part of Cod. arab. Petropol. 173, folios 109r-144r, 159v-170r, al-Zahrawi, Kitab al-Tasrif, undated |
| Box 24 Folder 10 | Handwritten copy of unidentified manuscript, pages 7-79, of Averroes, Middle Commentary on De Interpretatione, with pencil marginalia, undated |
| Box 24 Folder 11 | Handwritten copies and manuscripts, 1938, 1944, undated
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| Box 24 Folder 12 | Drafts, letters, and notes, 1936, undated
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| Box 24 Folder 13-14 | Jabir manuscript (Jabir ibn Hayyan - contribution à l’histoire des idees scientifiques dans l’Islam) galleys, pages 1-311, index?, 1940-1941
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| Box 25 Folder 1-2 | Jabir manuscript - hand and typewritten drafts; proofs and bibliography for other works, undated
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| Box 25 Folder 3 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – handwritten – pages 1-18, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 4 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – handwritten, some typed text pasted in – pages 5-22, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 5 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – handwritten – pages 21-28, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 6 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – handwritten – pages 18-19, 160-162, 164, 167, 170, labeled in blue, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 7 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – handwritten – pages 29-31, 45-51, 57-70, labeled in pencil, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 8 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – handwritten – pages 390-399, 405-428, labeled in red, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 9 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – handwritten – unnumbered pages, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 10 | Jabir manuscript – drafts, some typed text pasted in, unnumbered and appear somewhat unordered, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 11 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten – pages I-XI, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 12 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten – pages 2-4 (index?), undated |
| Box 25 Folder 13 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten – pages 2-8, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 14 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten, with handwritten additions and edits – pages 3-4, 6, 8, 10-17, 19, 22, 44, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 15 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten with handwritten additions and edits – pages 9-16, 65-81, labeled in pencil, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 16 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten – pages 10-13, 13-19, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 17 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten, with extensive handwritten edits – pages 11A-20B, including some duplicates, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 18 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten, with handwritten additions and edits – pages 98-99, 110-141, 158, 160-162, 202-207, 213-216, 298, 308-359, labeled in red, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 19 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten, with handwritten additions and edits – pages 277-309, 311-383, 421-424, labeled in red, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 20 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten, with handwritten additions and edits – pages 337-375, labeled in blue, undated |
| Box 25 Folder 21 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten, Arabic text with some French, in purple ink [bibliography?], undated |
| Box 25 Folder 22 | Jabir manuscript – drafts – typewritten, in blue ink [bibliography?], undated |
| Box 25 Folder 23 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 1, pages 44-52 tops and bottoms, 2 copies of 51-52, 1940 |
| Box 25 Folder 24 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 1, pages 53-61 tops and bottoms, with some duplicates, 1940 |
| Box 25 Folder 25 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 1, pages 75-78 tops and bottoms, two copies, 1940 |
| Box 26 Folder 1 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 1, pages 87-90 tops; 91-94, tops and bottoms; 95-96 bottoms; undated |
| Box 26 Folder 2 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 1, pages 105-110, 113 tops and bottoms, undated |
| Box 26 Folder 3 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 1, pages 125-147 tops and bottoms [130 bottom only], undated |
| Box 26 Folder 4 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, pages 80-81 tops and bottoms, 82 bottom only?, and 2nd copy of 80 top, 1943 |
| Box 26 Folder 5 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, pages N-S tops and bottoms, T bottom only, undated |
| Box 26 Folder 6 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – bottom halves of unlabeled pages, undated |
| Box 26 Folder 7 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – Arabic text, undated |
| Box 26 Folder 8 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – Arabic text, including “Documents sur la diplomatic musulmame à l’epoque du Prohpète et des Khalifes orthodoxes,” édités por Muhammad Hamidulah, 1941 |
| Box 26 Folder 9 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – chart, Arabic title, citation at bottom for “Documents sur la diplomatic musulmame à l’epoque du Prohpète et des Khalifes orthodoxes, Paris, 1935” |
| Box 26 Folder 10 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – drafts of title pages and miscellaneous papers, some blank, undated |
| Box 26 Folder 11 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – Galen’s Compendium Timaei Platonis, edited by Kraus, excerpts, undated |
| Box 26 Folder 12 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – German text, purple ink, undated |
| Box 26 Folder 13 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – letter to Kraus from G. Wiet, Institut D’Egypte, June 12, 1941 |
| Box 26 Folder 14 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – reviews or summaries of M. Ventura “La Philosophie de Saadia Gaon” and “Le Kalâm et le Péripatétisme d’asprès le Kuzari,” and V. Stegeman, “Beiträge zur Geschichte der Astrologie. Der griechiache Astrologe Dorotheos von Sidon und der arabische Astrologe Abu’l-Hasan ibn Abi’r-Rigal gennant Albohazen,” undated |
| Box 26 Folder 15 | Jabir manuscript – miscellaneous – Universite Egyptienne, Horaire des examenes, 1937 |
| Box 26 Folder 16 | Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis – draft, typewritten, with handwritten additions and edits, undated
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| Box 26 Folder 17 | Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis – draft, typed and handwritten, with extensive additions and edits, undated [1 of 3] |
| Box 26 Folder 18 | Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis – draft, typed and handwritten, with extensive additions and edits, undated [2 of 3] |
| Box 26 Folder 19 | Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis – draft, typed and handwritten, with extensive additions and edits, undated [3 of 3] |
| Box 26 Folder 20 | Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis – miscellaneous materials, including Arabic texts for “Testimonia” of Galen volume; some proofs of the Latin introduction; and two pages of proofs of Arabic text, undated
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Series IV: Notecards |
This series contains undated, generally unordered notecards, many of which appear to contain bibliographical notes.
| Box 27 | Notecards, Box A, undated |
| Box 28 | Notecards, Box B, undated |
| Box 29 | Notecards, Box C, undated |
| Box 30 | Notecards, Box D, undated |
| Box 31 | Notecards, Box E, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 1 | Notes from box B, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 2 | Notes from box D, undated |
| Box 32 Folder 3 | Notes from box E, undated |
Series V: Oversize |
This series contains material that is too large to fit in standard legal-sized folders. It is arranged first by size. Within each size is arranged to correspond to the general order of the rest of the collection. It ranges in date from 1925-1944, with a significant amount of undated material.
| Box 33 Folder 1 | Notebook 20 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 2 | Notebook 31 cover, found empty, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 3 | Notebook 55 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 4 | Notebook 88, cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 5 | Notebook 89, cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 6 | Notebook 91, “Schr,” in notebook “Tatimma Copie,” covers, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 7 | Notebook 92, cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 8 | Notebook 100 cover, “Iran,” undated |
| Box 33 Folder 9 | Notebook 101 cover, “Catalogues,” undated |
| Box 33 Folder 10 | Notebook 116 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 11 | Notebook 118 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 12 | Notebook 123 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 13 | Notebook 126 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 14 | Notebook 128 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 15 | Notebook 129 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 16 | Notebook 130 cover, “Bibliograph Introd.,” undated |
| Box 33 Folder 17 | Notebook 132 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 18 | Notebook 134 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 19 | Notebook 221 cover, “Ibn Jami’ ar-Risalah al-salahijja,” found empty, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 20 | Notebook 222 cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 21 | Notebook 279, article, Geistige Arbeit. Valiki, A. Zeki, “Die Reiseberichte Ibn-Fadlans,” October 5, 1937 |
| Box 33 Folder 22 | Notebook cover with miscellaneous sketches and notes, found empty, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 23 | “Ibn al-Nafis materialiem” and letters to Max Meyerhof - envelopes |
| Box 33 Folder 24 | Ibn. Rushd. Mittl. Kommentar zur Hermeneutik [Hebr. Text m. Var. Florenz, Munchen, Berlin, Wien] cover and notes, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 25 | Empty envelope addressed to Meyerhof, with handwritten note ‘Al-Mu’alagat al-burqratijja,” August 28, 1939 |
| Box 33 Folder 26 | Jabir manuscript, notebook cover, undated |
| Box 33 Folder 27 | Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis – drafts, covers for Notebooks 47-48, undated |
| Box 34 | Cover, notebook 124, undated |
| Box 35 Folder 1 | Notebook 120 cover, undated |
| Box 35 Folder 2 | Notebook 141 cover, “Institut Francais D’Archéologie Orientale de Caire Dossier V,’ undated |
| Box 35 Folder 3 | Notebook 175 - page from Neue Zurcher Zeitung newspaper with article “Zum Unterschied von Poesie und Prosa,” October 31, 1942 |
| Box 35 Folder 4 | Notebook 182 - Plotinus, galleys of “Recherches t. XII” [?], pages 4-13, Arabic text with notes, undated [possibly belongs with envelope “Recherches X.XII -- Plotin. Fasc. I” in NEWB21, F1] |
| Box 35 Folder 5 | Hannoverischer Anzeiger, Dienstag [newspaper, 8 pages] April 21, 1925 |
| Box 35 Folder 6 | “Ibn al-Nafis, Risala fi manafi al-a’da,” empty envelope, undated |
| Box 35 Folder 7 | Kraus' French translation of Plotinus, corrected proofs, undated |
| Box 35 Folder 8 | Clipping, in Arabic, from card file boxes, undated |
| Box 36 Folder 1 | Notebook 185 - map, Persia, Afgánistán, and Baluchistán, with sketch map to illustrate the journeys of Major P.M. Sykes, undated |
| Box 36 Folder 2 | Al-Ahram [newspaper, 4 pages] March 24,1944 |
| Box 36 Folder 3 | “Les dignitaires de la hierarchie religieuse selon Jabir ibn Hayyan,” page proofs, with handwritten corrections, two copies, 1942 |
| Box 36 Folder 4 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, pages 52-65, circa 1942 |
| Box 36 Folder 5 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, pages 66-77, circa 1942 |
| Box 36 Folder 6 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, pages 66-79, circa 1942 |
| Box 36 Folder 7 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, pages 87-93, 1943 |
| Box 36 Folder 8 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, pages A-Z, undated |
| Box 36 Folder 9 | Jabir manuscript – proofs – volume 2, index, 1943 |