Apparently, Leiden University never acquired any manuscripts or books directly from Albert Schultens. However, they may have been among the materials bought from the auction of the collection of his son Johannes Jacobus Schultens in September 1780. On this occasion Leiden University acquired 81 Oriental manuscripts, the largest single acquisition of Oriental materials since the Warner collection of 1665 (Bibliotheca Schultensiana 1780).

The collection of Hendrik Albert Schultens was put up for auction in October 1794. Due to the policital situation, however, the auction was cancelled (Catalogus Bibliothecae quam reliquit Henricus Albertus Schultens 1794). The entire collection was subsequently bought by Johan Hendrik van der Palm from H.A.Schultens’s widow in 1796. Van der Palm was professor of Oriental languages at Leiden intermittently from 1795 until his death in 1840. His private collection, which was still known as 'Bibliotheca Schultensiana' at this time, was auctioned in April 1841 (Catalogus librorum ac manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Schultensianae 1841). At this auction Leiden University purchased 479 printed books and 27 Oriental manuscripts from the Schultens collection, together with 89 printed books and 7 manuscripts from Van der Palm’s own private collection.

In 1836, unpublished papers and scholarly notes in the hands of all three Schultens generations turned up in the possession of Jan Rudolf van Eerde, professor and university librarian at Groningen (Bibliotheca Eerdiana 1836). They were bought by King William I of the Netherlands, who in turn donated them to Leiden University.

In 1856, another 26 manuscripts from the Schultens collection found their way to Leiden University library when the Oriental manuscripts of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences were given on permanent loan. The Royal Academy had acquired these in 1837 from the collection of Joannes Willmet (1750-1835), professor at Harderwijk and Amsterdam (Bibliotheca Willmetiana 1837, De Jong 1862).

In addition, Leiden University Library holds a large number of copies and drafts of diplomatic translations by the three Schultenses and, to a smaller extent, their predecessor Johannes Heyman (1667-1737). The registration numbers seem to indicate that they were added to the collections under the curatorship of Hendrik Arent Hamaker, who held office from 1817 to 1835.

For a general overview of the Schultens collections in Leiden University Library see Vrolijk 2009.