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A. J. W. (Guus) Huisman

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Notable figure 1917–1983 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1077 · Second source: Wellcome Collection, catalogue record of Les manuscrits arabes dans le monde (Leiden: Brill, 1967), author heading: Huisman, Guus, 1917-1983

Field: Manuscript cataloguing

Affiliation

Author of Les manuscrits arabes dans le monde (1967)

Biography

He was keeper of the Oriental department of Leiden University Library. He compiled, in French, Les manuscrits arabes dans le monde: une bibliographie des catalogues (Leiden: Brill, 1967), a guide to the catalogues of Arabic manuscripts in the world's libraries, which recent guides to catalogues still cite.