TEHRAN -- Dutch professor Jan Just Witkam, master of codicology and paleography of the Islamic world is currently in Tehran by invitation from Ali-Akbar Velayati, Head of the Islamic Civilization Committee.

Professor Witkam who arrived in Tehran last week held a workshop on codicology on Wednesday at the venue of the National Library of Iran, which experts and university teachers as well as a group of students and researchers attended.
He also met with researchers at Tehran’s Miras-e Maktub Institute on Tuesday, and is planning to attend several other cultural meetings.
Professor Witkam teaches archaeology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
He has also moderates the Islamic manuscripts website which provides inventories of major manuscript collections and a wealth of other information related to Islamic manuscripts.
The website includes recent inventories of the Oriental manuscripts collections at Leiden University and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.