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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
Siyah Mashq
Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Letter exercises
mir 'imad al-hasani · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Insha'
khan zaman · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Hilye mounted on a wooden panel
dihya salim al-fahim · Library of Congress · 1718
Persian
Insha'
mir kalan · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Siyah Mashq
Library of Congress · 18??
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
Invocations to 'Ali
hafiz muhammad sa'd al-din · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah va al-maghfirah
firdawsī · Library of Congress · 1618
Persian
Şerh-i Gülistân
bosnavı̂ sudi · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Verses in Persian and Chaghatay
Library of Congress · 1600
Persian
Siyah Mashq
Library of Congress · 18??
Urdu
Sample calligraphies
hakim sayyid hamid 'abbas al-taqawi al-bukhari · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Siyah Mashq
Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Quatrain on divine mercy
mir 'ali heravi (attr.) · Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Illuminated sarloh (frontispiece)
Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
[Gulistān]
saʻdī · Library of Congress · 1593
Persian
Two verses of poetry
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Waqiat-i-Nadiri (History of Nadir Shah)
mahdī khān astarābādī · Library of Congress · 1759
Persian
Quatrain on separation
abdallah (isfahani) · Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
[Unnamed Sufi treatise]
mīr ʻalī ḥusaynī haravī · Library of Congress · 1520
Arabic
Bihari Qur'an
Library of Congress · 14??
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
Subḥat al-abrār
jāmī · Library of Congress · 16??
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 10??
Persian
The battle of Mazandaran
Library of Congress · 1564
Persian
Safinah fragment
imad al-hasani al-katib · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Insha'
mir kalan · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Insha'
khan zaman · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Mas̲navī
mumtaz un-nissa begum; jalāl al-dīn rūmī · Library of Congress · 1822
Persian
Verses by Jami
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Makhzan al-asrār ; Khulāṣat al-khamsah
persian manuscript collection (library of congress); niẓāmī… · Library of Congress · 1547
Persian
Quatrain on reaching divine unity
imad al-hasani · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Illuminated first page / identification note of the "Farhang-i Jahangiri"
Library of Congress · 1619
Persian
Quatrain on true knowledge
imad al-hasani · Library of Congress · 16??
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