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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
Anonymous Arabic and Persian poetic verses
Library of Congress
Persian
Hilye mounted on a wooden panel
dihya salim al-fahim · Library of Congress · 1718
Persian
Şerh-i Gülistân
bosnavı̂ sudi · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Qāḍīʹzādah ʻalá al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʼah
qāḍīʹzādah, mūsá ibn muḥammad; ʻabd, muḥammad riḍā; manṣūrī… · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Namāz va duʻā
Library of Congress · 18??
Arabic
Levha (panel) in honor of Imam 'Ali
farid al-din · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Bahram Gur in the yellow pavilion
Library of Congress · 15??
Ottoman Turkish
Military document
muhibb 'ali · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Mufradat exercises
Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
[Persian calligraphy studies.]
salmān bint ʻalī pāshā · Library of Congress · 1772
Persian
Gulshan-i tawḥīd
shāhidī dadah mughlavī, ibrāhīm ibn ṣāliḥ; jalāl al-dīn rūmī · Library of Congress · 1817
Persian
[Pandnāmah.]
ʻaṭṭār, farīd al-dīn · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Kullīyāt-i Ḥāfiẓ
ḥāfiẓ · Library of Congress · 1750
Persian
ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt
qazwīnī, zakarīyā ibn muḥammad · Library of Congress · 1565
Persian
Kitāb-i Rūmī al-Mawlawī
ʻalī ibn ḥaydar al-qāsimī; jalāl al-dīn rūmī · Library of Congress · 1498
Persian
Taʼrikh-i Hasht bihisht.
İdrîs Bitlîsî, -1520 · Princeton University Library
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