THE HAGUE, MUSEUM MEERMANNO-WESTREENIANUM/HUIS VAN HET BOEK

The museum, particularly devoted to preservation and exhibition of books and manuscripts, was founded in 1848 and comprised the estate of the collector W.H.J. baron van Westreenen van Tiellandt (1783–1848). A substantial part of the collection had belonged to a distant relative, Johan Meerman (1753–1815), whose library was sold in auction in 1824. Only a few items have been acquired since 1935. The museum’s collection comprises about 20,000 books and 339 manuscripts, among these a few in Arabic, described in Boeren’s Catalogue, pp. 146–147 and 197–198. Two of them, copies of Korans, had their origin in