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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
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
Persian
Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī (MS Add.3139)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Undated, probably 11th century A.H. / 17th century C.E.
Arabic
Tafhīm al-jāhilīn min al-Jahūd al-maghḍūb ʻalayhim wa-al-Naṣārá al-ḍāllīn (Qq. 29)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1819
Arabic
Khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī maʻrifat al-qūwā wa-al-khawāṣṣ (MS Qq.54)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 1819
Arabic
شعير شيڠافورا ترباكو (Or. 853)
Yasmin Faghihi in collaboration with Thoralf Hanstein · Cambridge University Library · 1871
Arabic
Alf laylah wa-laylah (Or. 1429)
Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 17th c. AD or 11th c. Hijri
Persian
dīvān-i Ziyái-i Fārsī (Or. 2035)
Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 981
Arabic
History of Mecca (Qq. 44)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1819
Arabic
Durr al-buḥūr (Qq. 68)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1810
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