Dr. R. Roolvink was a Dutch Malay scholar who, as Voorhoeve records in the introduction to the 1955 edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises, recovered the long-lost Arabic manuscript of the *Ḥujjat aṣ-ṣiddīq li-dafʿ az-zindīq* of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī in the collections of the Bataviaas Genootschap in Jakarta — KBG 420 Mal. (not in the catalogue). The recovered manuscript, designated A in Voorhoeve’s apparatus, was repeatedly useful for the correction of the Maxwell manuscript of the Ḥujjat.
The recovery of the Arabic manuscript of the Ḥujjat
The Arabic manuscript of the *Ḥujjat* had been noted as early as 1866 by Van der Tuuk in BKI 13, p. 464, but had long been thought lost. Roolvink’s recovery of the manuscript — KBG 420 Mal., not in the catalogue of the Bataviaas Genootschap — made it possible for Voorhoeve to collate the Arabic text with the Malay text of the Maxwell manuscript. Comparison showed that the copyist, working from a complete Malay exemplar, had transcribed only the Arabic words and sentences written in red ink, producing an incoherent text that nonetheless contains fewer copyists’ errors than the Maxwell manuscript and was repeatedly useful for its correction.
Other services
Roolvink is also acknowledged by Voorhoeve — alongside Dr. Johns in London — for having looked at the India Office Library manuscript Loth 1033 of the *Tamhīd* of Abū Shakūr as-Sālimī in Jakarta, where the passage missing from Raniri’s exemplar (and from the Leiden manuscript Cod. Or. 5664) is preserved.
See Also
- Abu Syakur as-Salimi
- Bataviaas Genootschap
- Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk
- Hudjdjat as-siddiq li-daf az-zindiq
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Tamhid fi bayan at-tawhid
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §3a (“Inhoudsopgave”), p. 37, where Roolvink’s recovery of KBG 420 Mal. is acknowledged; and Inleiding §2b (“De bronnen van de Tibjān”), p. 10, note (2), where Roolvink’s services at Jakarta are recorded.
Dr. R. Roolvink was a Dutch Malay scholar who, as Voorhoeve records in the introduction to the 1955 edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises, recovered the long-lost Arabic manuscript of the *Ḥujjat aṣ-ṣiddīq li-dafʿ az-zindīq* of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī in the collections of the Bataviaas Genootschap in Jakarta — KBG 420 Mal. (not in the catalogue). The recovered manuscript, designated A in Voorhoeve’s apparatus, was repeatedly useful for the correction of the Maxwell manuscript of the Ḥujjat.
The recovery of the Arabic manuscript of the Ḥujjat
The Arabic manuscript of the *Ḥujjat* had been noted as early as 1866 by Van der Tuuk in BKI 13, p. 464, but had long been thought lost. Roolvink’s recovery of the manuscript — KBG 420 Mal., not in the catalogue of the Bataviaas Genootschap — made it possible for Voorhoeve to collate the Arabic text with the Malay text of the Maxwell manuscript. Comparison showed that the copyist, working from a complete Malay exemplar, had transcribed only the Arabic words and sentences written in red ink, producing an incoherent text that nonetheless contains fewer copyists’ errors than the Maxwell manuscript and was repeatedly useful for its correction.
Other services
Roolvink is also acknowledged by Voorhoeve — alongside Dr. Johns in London — for having looked at the India Office Library manuscript Loth 1033 of the *Tamhīd* of Abū Shakūr as-Sālimī in Jakarta, where the passage missing from Raniri’s exemplar (and from the Leiden manuscript Cod. Or. 5664) is preserved.
See Also
- Abu Syakur as-Salimi
- Bataviaas Genootschap
- Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk
- Hudjdjat as-siddiq li-daf az-zindiq
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Tamhid fi bayan at-tawhid
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §3a (“Inhoudsopgave”), p. 37, where Roolvink’s recovery of KBG 420 Mal. is acknowledged; and Inleiding §2b (“De bronnen van de Tibjān”), p. 10, note (2), where Roolvink’s services at Jakarta are recorded.