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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
Ḥashiyah ʻala Ḥall Mushkilāt al-Ishārāt wa-al-Tanbīhāt (MS Or.1011)
Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 7-1310 o… · Cambridge University Library · 760
Persian
A collection of mystical and theological treatises (MS Gg.5.17)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1000 A.H. / 1592 C.E.
Persian
ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt (MS Nn.3.74)
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1203-1283 · Cambridge University Library · 974 AH / 1566 CE
Persian
Muḥammadnāmah (Or. 1394)
Muḥammad Ẓuhūr ibn Mawlawī Ẓuhūrīمحمد ظهور بن مولوي ظهوري · Cambridge University Library · 1183
Arabic
al-Tibr al-masbūk fī naṣaʼiḥ al-mulūk (Qq. 231)
Yasmin Faghihi, Julian Cook, Andrew Morrison, James Cumming… · Cambridge University Library · 1027
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1111)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 9th or 10th century CE /3rd or 4th century AH
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1119)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 9th or 10th century CE /3rd or 4th century AH
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1126)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 9th or 10th century CE /3rd or 4th century AH
Persian
Shāhnāmah (MS Add.269)
Firdawsī · Cambridge University Library · Not after 1019/1610 C.E.
Arabic
Add. 3227 (Add. 3227)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 1705
Arabic
Kitāb al-muʻammarīn, Kitāb al-waṣāyā (Qq. 285)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1036
Arabic
Kanz al-asrār wa-lawāqiḥ al-afkār (Or. 1517)
Julian Cook, Andrew Morrison, James Cummings, Ignacio Sanch… · Cambridge University Library · 1007
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1127)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 9th or 10th century CE / 3rd or 4th century AH
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1136)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 9th or 10th century CE / 3rd or 4th century AH
Persian
Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī (MS Add.3139)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Undated, probably 11th century A.H. / 17th century C.E.
Persian
Letter to the Marquis Wellesley (Add. 286)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1804
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1146)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 2nd or 3rd century AH / 8th or 9th century CE
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.743.3)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 9th or 10th century AD /3rd or 4th century Hijri
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1149)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 3rd century AH / 9th century CE
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1114)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 9th or 10th century AD /3rd or 4th century Hijri
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1122)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 9th or 10th century AD /3rd or 4th century Hijri
Persian
A second supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts in the University & Colleges of Cambridge (A233.34.3)
CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1952
Arabic
Al-maqālāt al-ʻashar li-Arisṭūṭālīs (Add. 3222)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1895
Arabic
Catalogue of Armenian manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (UA ULIB 7/3/78)
Yasmin Faghihi, CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1926
Arabic
Ostraca in the Cambridge University Library (A356.46)
CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1930-1955
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Or.770)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 3rd century AH / 9th century CE
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1135)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 3rd century AH / 9th century CE
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1145)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably end of the 3rd century or 4th century A.H. / end of 9th century or 10th century C.E
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1131)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 10th century CE /4th century AH
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1130)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 3rd century AH / 9th century CE
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1133)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 3rd century AH / 9th century CE
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1113)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 10th or 11th century AD /4th or 5th century Hijri
Arabic
El breve compendio de nuestra santa ley alçunna (Dd.9.49)
Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1530-1540 C.E.
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (Nn.3.75)
Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · Undated but notes of ownership of A.H. 1028 and 1066 occur at the beginning.
Arabic
Sharḥ Alfīyah Ibn Mālik (Mm.6.23)
Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · Before 1404 C.E.
Arabic
Epistle on the Customs of the Naqshbandiyya Order (MS Add.1073)
Dr. Meis Al-Kaisi (American University of Sharjah, UAE) · Cambridge University Library · AH 1203/AD 1788-9
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