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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
[Qurʼān]
Library of Congress · 1695
Persian
The Div Akvan throws Rustam into the sea
Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
[Unidentified Persian manuscript, by Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān]
kirmānī, muḥammad raḥīm khān · Library of Congress · 18??
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 10??
Persian
Ṣanāyiʻ-i asṭurlāb
qāʼinī, qāsim ʻalī · Library of Congress · 1849
Persian
Kitāb-i Majālis al-muʼminīn
shushtarī, nūr allāh ibn ʻabd allāh · Library of Congress · 1658
Persian
Decorative borders
Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
1st Page of Sa'di's Bustan
abd al-rashid daylami · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
[ʻArūz̤-i] Mawlānā Jāmī ; Qāfiyah-ʼi Mawlānā Jāmī ; [Anonymous treatise on astronomy]
jāmī · Library of Congress · 1616
Persian
Bahram Gur in the yellow pavilion
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Imāmīyah
Library of Congress · 1900
Persian
Kitāb-i mustaṭāb-i Iqbāl al-ṣāliḥāt
mihr raḥīm khān · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Silsilah-i shaykhīyah
kirmānī, muḥammad karīm khān; shīrāzī, muḥammad ʻalī ibn mu… · Library of Congress · 1866
Persian
Hāz̲ā al-kitāb al-mustaṭāb al-musammá bih Khvān-i yaghmā
muḥammad raḥīm khān · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
The seductivness of the world
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Ghazal by Sa'di
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
[سبحت الابرار].
Jāmī, 1414-1492 · Princeton University Library · 1700-1799
Persian
[Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ]
ḥāfiẓ · Library of Congress · 17??
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