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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
[Collection of Arabic religious and ascetic sayings and adages with Persian explanations.]
Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Hādhā Kitāb Gharīb al-Qurʼān
manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imām; sijistānī, muḥammad ibn ʻuzayr; ma… · Library of Congress
Persian
الصحاح العجمية.
Muḥammad ibn Hindūshāh Nakhjavānī, active 1328-1358 · Princeton University Library · 1700-1799
Arabic
[Qurʼān]
Library of Congress · 1695
Persian
Siyah Mashq
Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Letter exercise
Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Anonymous Arabic and Persian poetic verses
Library of Congress
Persian
Letter exercises
mir 'imad al-hasani · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Khusraw kills a lion
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Page from the "Farhang-i Jahangiri"
Library of Congress · 1619
Persian
[رشحات عين الحياه].
Ṣafī, ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Kāshifī, 1463-1532 or 1533 · Princeton University Library · 1681
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 13??
Persian
Protocol of address
Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Quatrain for a king
mir 'ali heravi (attr.) · Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Ruba'is by Hafiz
Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
Bal'ami's Persian translation of al-Tabari's "Ta'rikh"
Library of Congress · 12??
Arabic
Invocation of 'Ali
ahmad al-husayni · Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Siyah Mashq
Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Sa'di, "Two Lovers Lost at Sea"
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Nuskhah--i Tavārīkh-i Sind
maʻṣūm, mīr muḥammad · Library of Congress · 1768
Persian
Verses by Jami
hajji yadigar al-katib · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Illuminated sarloh (frontispiece)
Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Verses in Persian and Chaghatay
Library of Congress · 1600
Persian
Hilye mounted on a wooden panel
dihya salim al-fahim · Library of Congress · 1718
Persian
The Div Akvan throws Rustam into the sea
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
al-Muʻjam fī ās̲ār mulūk al-ʻajam
ḥusaynī qazvīnī, sharaf al-dīn faz̤l allāh · Library of Congress · 1825
Persian
Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah va al-maghfirah
firdawsī · Library of Congress · 1618
Arabic
The ephemerality of the world
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Insha'
mir kalan · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Insha'
khan zaman · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Two Bayts (verses) on modesty
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Sa'di's "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden)
Library of Congress · 14??
Persian
Invocations to 'Ali
hafiz muhammad sa'd al-din · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Verses on tragic love
shah muhammad al-mashhadi · Library of Congress · 1560
Persian
Kullīyāt-i ashʻār va ghazalīyāt-i Mīrzā Maḥmūd Khān Bālāʹḥiṣārī Kābulī al-mutakhalliṣ bih (Sālik)
sālik, mīrzā maḥmūd khān · Library of Congress · 1938
Persian
Siyah Mashq
Library of Congress · 18??
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