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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
Persian
al-Muʻjam fī ās̲ār mulūk al-ʻajam
ḥusaynī qazvīnī, sharaf al-dīn faz̤l allāh · Library of Congress · 1825
Arabic
Bal'ami's Persian translation of al-Tabari's "Ta'rikh"
Library of Congress · 12??
Persian
Nuskhah--i Tavārīkh-i Sind
maʻṣūm, mīr muḥammad · Library of Congress · 1768
Persian
Nizami's "Iskandarnamah"
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
[Collection of short texts or extracts from various manuscripts in Persian and Arabic concerning the reign of Maḥmūd Shāh]
Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn
ʻabd al-razzāq kamāl al-dīn ibn isḥāq al-samarqandī · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Two textual excerpts
jamal-i nuri · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Waqiat-i-Nadiri (History of Nadir Shah)
mahdī khān astarābādī · Library of Congress · 1759
Persian
[Unidentified treatise on prosody by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Najātī al-Nīsābūrī]
najātī, maḥmūd ibn ʻumar; jāmī; ibn jamīl, muḥammad ʻārif · Library of Congress · 1527
Persian
Kitāb-i Tārīkh-i ʻĀlamʹāra
iskandar munshī; kāzarūnī, ghulām ḥusayn ibn ʻaṭṭār ʻalīʻas… · Library of Congress · 1812
Persian
Jild-i avval Siyar al-mutaʼakhkhirīn, taṣnīf-i Sayyid Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān ibn-i Sayyid Hidāyatʹʻalīkhān Ṭabāṭabāī Ḥusaynī
ghulām ḥusayn khān ṭabāṭabāʼī · Library of Congress · 1800
Persian
Navāb Vālā Maqām-i maqbūl
muhammad ali khan, umdat al-mulk anwar al-din · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Kitāb-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā
ibn fatḥ allāh mīrzā sayyid ṭabātabāʼī; mīr khvānd, muḥamma… · Library of Congress · 1558
Persian
[Lawyer's notebook from Iran]
Library of Congress · 1926
Persian
Pādishāhnāmah
muḥammad ṣāliḥ kambūh; muqīm, muḥammad; muḥammad amīn ibn a… · Library of Congress · 1650
Persian
ʻAlāmgīrnāmah
ellis, alexander george; muḥammad kāẓim ibn muḥammad amīn · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Shah-nameh by Firdausi
firdawsī · Library of Congress · 1600
Persian
[Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām]
cole, timothy; collins, philip s.; lessing j. rosenwald col… · Library of Congress · 1825
Persian
Kitāb-i Rūmī al-Mawlawī
ʻalī ibn ḥaydar al-qāsimī; jalāl al-dīn rūmī · Library of Congress · 1498
Persian
al-Mujallad al-avval min kalām Mīr Khvand ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
mīr khvānd, muḥammad ibn khāvandshāh · Library of Congress · 1625
Persian
Sharḥ-i Jām-i jahān numā
Library of Congress · 1759
Persian
Shāh Jihān
muḥammad ṣāliḥ kambūh; straton, francis · Library of Congress · 1800
Persian
Malfūẓāt
abū ṭālib al-ḥusaynī; timur · Library of Congress · 1851
Persian
Tārīkh-i Nādirī
munro, thomas; mahdī khān astarābādī · Library of Congress · 1760
Persian
Tārīkh-i Quṭb-i Shāhīyah
mirzā ʻalī bayg riz̤ā hādī; munro, thomas · Library of Congress · 1858
Persian
Kitāb-i qiṣṣah-ʼi Kāmʹrūp
Library of Congress · 1788
Persian
Majmūʻat al-ḥaqāyiq
Library of Congress · 1860
Persian
Dar bayān-i kayfiyat-i madd va jazr-i Islām
bismil, ʻubaidullāh · Library of Congress · 1902
Persian
Colophon of Nizami's "Sharafnamah"; title page of Nizami's "Iqbalnamah"
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Shāhnāmah
firdawsī · Library of Congress · 1842
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