Manuscripts,PoliticsandOrientalStudies Islamic Manuscripts and Books KarinScheper(LeidenUniversity) ArnoudVrolijk(LeidenUniversity) volume 19 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/imb Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies LifeandCollectionsof JohannGottfriedWetzstein(1815–1905) inContext Editedby BorisLiebrenz ChristophRauch LEIDEN | BOSTON Coverillustration:Kašfwuǧūhal-ġurrli-maʿānīNaẓmal-durrofʿAbdal-Razzāqal-Qāšānī,Syria16th century.Thismanuscriptcontainsonf.1aanownershipnoteofWetzsteininArabicscript.Staatsbibliothek zuBerlin–PK,Orientabteilung,WetzsteinI38. TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN1877-9964 ISBN978-90-04-39019-5(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-39314-1(e-book) Copyright2019byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands,exceptwherestatedotherwise. 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Contents Acknowledgements ix ListofFigures x NotesonContributors xvii NoteonTransliterationandDates xxiii 1 Introduction 1 BorisLiebrenzandChristophRauch Part 1 Berlin 2 JohannGottfriedWetzsteinalsForscher 13 HolgerPreißler† 3 SemiticStudiesattheUniversityofBerlinduringWetzstein’s Lifetime 21 LudmilaHanisch† 4 GrowingCollectionsandRisingExpectations TheEndeavourtoCatalogueManuscriptsinArabicScriptattheRoyal LibraryinBerlin 33 ChristophRauch Part 2 TheWetzsteinCollections 5 TheWetzsteinCollectionatTübingenUniversityLibrary ItsHistory,ContentandReceptioninOrientalStudies 65 MichaelaHoffmann-Ruf 6 TheQuranicCollectionsAcquiredbyWetzstein 92 FrançoisDéroche 7 JohannGottfriedWetzstein’sManuscriptsContainingArabicPopular Stories 116 JanJustWitkam vi contents 8 TheConsulandtheKing WetzsteinandAlexander 140 FaustinaDoufikar-Aerts 9 WetzsteininWonderland ArabianEpicManuscriptsintheWetzsteinCollections 162 ClaudiaOtt 10 ArabicManuscriptsandBooksfromtheBequestofWetzstein 174 BorisLiebrenzandChristophRauch Part 3 CollectingOrientalManuscripts 11 CollectingIslamicManuscriptsattheMunichCourtLibraryinthe NineteenthCentury AnAcquisitionHistory 197 HelgaRebhan 12 ManuscriptAcquisitionsandtheirLaterMovements AFurtherNoteabouttheCaseoftheLewisQuranicManuscript 228 AlbaFedeli 13 ManuscriptOwnershipandReadershipattheAmericanUniversityof BeirutattheTurnoftheTwentiethCentury 248 KaoukabChebaroandSamarElMikatiElKaissi Part 4 Damascus 14 LookingatManintheStateofNature JohannGottfriedWetzsteinontheBedouinoftheSyrianSteppe 293 AstridMeier 15 FromLeipzigtoDamascus WetzsteinasaBrokerofArabicPrintsinSyria 323 BorisLiebrenz contents vii 16 ErgänzungenzudenhinterlassenenPapierenJohannGottfried Wetzsteins 346 IngeborgHuhn 17 LivinginMid-Nineteenth-CenturyDamascus InsightsintotheUrbanResidencesofForeignersandLocals 371 AnkeScharrahs 18 ArabistandConsulinDamascus SirRichardBurtonandtheProblematicNatureofHisTranslationof The ThousandandOneNights 420 RobertIrwin Index 433 Acknowledgements Wewishtothankallwhopresentedtheirfascinatingpapersduringthecon- ferencein2015andallwhopreparedthemintheintensiveeditingprocessfor thispublication.WewouldliketothankBarbaraSchneider-Kempfandherstaff from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for all their efforts to make this exciting conference happen. Its organization was a cooperation between the Staats- bibliothekandtheOrientalInstituteofLeipzigUniversityandwearegrateful toVerenaKlemm(LeipzigUniversity)forherinvaluablesupport.Theconfer- encewasmadepossiblebythegeneroussupportoftheFritz-Thyssen-Stiftung and the Verein der Freunde der Staatsbibliothek. Our thanks go also to the StiftungDr.JohannGottfriedWetzsteinforprovidingfundingforthecopyedit- ing.ThanksareduetoEdwardStreetwhothoroughlycopyeditedthewhole volume.We finally would like to extend our sincere appreciation to Arnoud VrolijkandKarinScheperforhavingacceptedthevolumeintheseries“Islamic ManuscriptsandBooks”,toMauritsvandenBoogertandFrancadeKortfrom Brillfortheirimmensesupport,andtoPieterteVeldeforseeingthevolume throughthepress. Figures 1.1 ErnestineundJohannGottfriedWetzsteinimJahrihrerEheschließung1853, DaguerreotypieausdemPrivatbesitzvonS.Knez,Monheim(Bayern) 2 1.2 KonsulDr.Joh.Gottfr.WetzsteinbesuchtimJahre1855denScheicheinesihm befreundetenBeduinen-StammesindenRuinenvonBaalbeck,paintingby BernhardFiedler,undated,EthnologischesMuseum,StaatlicheMuseenzu Berlin–PK,IBDlg7 4 1.3 PortraitvonWetzstein,Foto:E.Bieber,Berlin-Steglitz,1884,Staatsbibliothek zuBerlin–PK,NachlassWetzsteinII,Kasten5 8 4.1 PortraitofEmilRödiger,undated,UBderHumboldt-UniversitätBerlin, Portraitsammlung 41 4.2 PortraitofWilhelmSchott,undated 42 4.3 PortraitofWilhelmPertsch,undatedplasterrelief,Forschungsbibliothek Gotha 44 4.4 PortraitofRichardGosche,StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin–PK, Handschriftenabteilung,Portraitsammlung 47 4.5 BoxwithRichardGosche’scataloguerecords,StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin– PK,Handschriftenabteilung,Ms.Cat.477a,Photo:SiegfriedSchmitt 49 4.6 PortraitofWilhelmAhlwardt,reproductionofalostpainting,dateandartist unknown,UniversitätsarchivGreifswald,Fotosammlung 50 4.7 LetterofAhlwardttoAugustWilmannsfrom8September1899:“Endlich auchdaszumAbschlußgebrachtundnuneinStrichgemachtunterdie Arbeitvon40Jahren!”,StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin–PK, Handschriftenabteilung,ActaIIIA4d,p.263 54 4.8 JohannGottfriedWetzstein,Bruchstückeineswissenschaftl.Katalogs, StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin–PK,Orientabteilung,Or.HBD9 59 5.1 PhilippWolff,ArabischerDragoman,1867,Titlepage 69 5.2 PortraitofChristianSeybold,1894,UBderUniversitätTübingen, LXV483 75 5.3 PortraitofMaxWeisweiler,undated,UBderUniversitätBonn, Portraitsammlung 77 5.4 Diagramillustratingthecontentofthecollection(basedonWeisweiler, Verzeichnis,pp.227–228) 78 5.5 Kitābal-nuqaṭwa-l-dawāʾir,c.17thcentury,UBderUniversitätTübingen, MaVI133,f.54a 82 5.6 Qiṣṣatal-Sūlwa-l-Šumūl,14thcentury,UBderUniversitätTübingen, MaVI33,f.1a 83 5.7 ḤikāyatʿUmaral-Nuʿmānwa-waladayhiŠarkānwa-Ḍauʾal-Makān,c.1640, UBderUniversitätTübingen,MaVI32,f.2b 85