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Handwritten works in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Ottoman Turkish from libraries around the world — gathered in one place, arranged by subject and author, and readable page by page right here.
18773manuscripts
7libraries
4languages
Arabic
Mihrab découpage panel
Library of Congress · 17??
Ottoman Turkish
قانون الادب ضبط كلمات العرب ... / للشيخ الاديب ابي الفضل حبيش بن ابراهيم بن محمد التفليسي ... .
Müstakimzade Süleyman Sadeddin, 1718-1787 · Princeton University Library · 1800
Persian
Letter exercise
Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Hilye mounted on a wooden panel
dihya salim al-fahim · Library of Congress · 1718
Ottoman Turkish
Kitab-i Muhammediye
ahmed iii; ömer rüşeni; yazıcıoğlu mehmet · Library of Congress · 1583
Ottoman Turkish
مقالات / نور الشهىر بکزاده نور الدىن. دىوان روحى بغدادى.
Princeton University Library · 1789-1790
Ottoman Turkish
Kitâb-i tezkiret ül-evliyâ
harawī, muḥammad; ʻaṭṭār, farīd al-dīn · Library of Congress
Ottoman Turkish
[Incomplete manuscript of the Ottoman Turkish translation of ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt of Qazwīnī]
qazwīnī, zakarīyā ibn muḥammad · Library of Congress · 1553
Ottoman Turkish
Hâzâ nazm-i Risale-yi Bilgili Mehmet Efendi
birgivî mehmet efendi · Library of Congress
Ottoman Turkish
Mufradat page
Library of Congress · 18??
Ottoman Turkish
خريدة العجايب وفريدة الغرايب.
Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457 · Princeton University Library · 1600-1799
Arabic
Sūrat al-Anʻām
Library of Congress
Persian
Şerh-i Gülistân
bosnavı̂ sudi · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Sammelhandschrift
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin · 1600
Ottoman Turkish
کتاب جاوىدان در ىتىم است.
Faz̤l Allāh Astarābādī, 1340-1394 · Princeton University Library · 1807
Ottoman Turkish
Risālah fī al-tajwīh bi-al-lughah al-Turkīyah
ibn al-jazarī, muḥammad ibn muḥammad; manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-im… · Library of Congress
Urdu
Sample calligraphies
hakim sayyid hamid 'abbas al-taqawi al-bukhari · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Hādhā kitāb sharḥ Badʻ al-amālī l
manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imām; mansuri collection (library of con… · Library of Congress · 1765
Arabic
Wāqiʻāt al-muftīn al-shahīrah bi-Fatāwá Qadirī Afandī. Wa-yalīhi Fatāwǎ Abī al-Suʻūd lil-Sulṭān Salīm bi-al-lughah al-Turkīyah
manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imām; ibn al-naqīb, ʻabd al-qādir ibn yū… · Library of Congress · 1700
Ottoman Turkish
Ḥadāʾiq ar-raiḥān fī tarǧamat Šaqāʾiq an-nuʿmān
Meḥmed Ḫākī Ibn-el-Müṭesib el-Belġrādī · Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin · 1575
Persian
[Gulistān]
saʻdī · Library of Congress · 1593
Arabic
Sammelhandschrift
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin · 1600
Ottoman Turkish
Ṭabaqātü’l-memālik ve dereǧātü’l-mesālik
Ǧelālzāde Muṣṭafā Čelebī · Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin · 1693
Ottoman Turkish
ترجمه بحر الکلام.
Princeton University Library · 1681
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