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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
Khusraw kills a lion
Library of Congress · 15??
Ottoman Turkish
مقالات / نور الشهىر بکزاده نور الدىن. دىوان روحى بغدادى.
Princeton University Library · 1789-1790
Arabic
Manẓūmah fī al-Muwajjahāt wa-yalīhā al-Waladīyah fī ādāb al-baḥth
sājaqlīzādah, muḥammad ibn abī bakr; manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imā… · Library of Congress
Persian
Sa'di, "Two Lovers Lost at Sea"
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
The Div Akvan throws Rustam into the sea
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Ruba'is by Hafiz
Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
Anonymous Arabic and Persian poetic verses
Library of Congress
Persian
Verses on the beloved
munshi ram · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Nizami's "Iskandarnamah"
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah va al-maghfirah
firdawsī · Library of Congress · 1618
Persian
The feast of Iskandar and Nushabah
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Two Bayts (verses) on modesty
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Verses in Persian and Chaghatay
Library of Congress · 1600
Persian
Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn
ʻabd al-razzāq kamāl al-dīn ibn isḥāq al-samarqandī · Library of Congress · 18??
Persian
Verses on tragic love
shah muhammad al-mashhadi · Library of Congress · 1560
Persian
Two textual excerpts
jamal-i nuri · Library of Congress · 18??
Arabic
Kitāb yusammá al-Kuḥl al-nafīs li-jalāʼ aʻyun al-raʼīs : wa-huwa sharḥ ʻalá al-Qaṣīdah al-ʻAynīyah
anṭākī, dāʼūd ibn ʻumar; mansuri collection (library of con… · Library of Congress
Arabic
N. Saadi letter, Brooklyn, New York, to Dr. Nies
omar ibn said collection (library of congress); saadi, n.; … · Library of Congress · 1919
Arabic
Sharḥ al-Khulāṣah fī al-ḥisāb
mansuri collection (library of congress); ʻāmilī, bahāʼ al-… · Library of Congress · 1665
Arabic
Kitāb nukhab al-dhakhāyir fī aḥwāl al-jawāhir
mansuri collection (library of congress); manṣūrī, maḥmūd a… · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Hādhā Bughyat al-ṭullāb ʻalá Munyat al-ḥussāb
mansuri collection (library of congress); shandawīlī, harīd… · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Qalāyid al-durar min aqsām al-athar
manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imām; mansuri collection (library of con… · Library of Congress
Persian
Arabic Manuscripts 693. Saadi Shirazi.
saadi shirazi · Library of Congress · 1470
Persian
Illuminated sarloh (frontispiece)
Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Love's throws
muhyi · Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Shāhnāmah (MS Add.269)
Firdawsī · Cambridge University Library · Not after 1019/1610 C.E.
Arabic
هذا كتاب حديقة ازهار المعارف يختص بالتنزه بها كل شخص عارف.
Princeton University Library · 1600-1699
Arabic
حاشية على الفوائد الضيائية لحل مشكلات الكافية للجامي / عصام الدين.
ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, 1468 or … · Princeton University Library · 1665-1665
Arabic
كتاب الحان السواجع / للصلاح الصفدي خليل بن ايبك.
Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak, approximately 1297-1363 · Princeton University Library · 1887-1887
Persian
نگارستان.
Muʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th century · Princeton University Library · 1572
Arabic
Manẓūmah fī al-wāwī wa-al-yāʼī
manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imām; mansuri collection (library of con… · Library of Congress
Persian
[Gulistān]
saʻdī · Library of Congress · 1593
Persian
Quatrain on unity of lovers
pir muhammad b. dust muhammad · Library of Congress
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