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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
Shāhnāmah (MS Add.269)
Firdawsī · Cambridge University Library · Not after 1019/1610 C.E.
Arabic
Kitāb al-muʻammarīn, Kitāb al-waṣāyā (Qq. 285)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1036
Persian
Khamsah-ʼi Niẓāmī (MS Add.3139)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Undated, probably 11th century A.H. / 17th century C.E.
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
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
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.
Persian
A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS. belonging to E.G. Browne (A233.4)
CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1932
Persian
Sharafnāmah-ʼi Sharaf al-Dīn Bitlīsī (H. 10)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1027
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1142)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · Probably 4th-5th century AH / 10th-11th century CE
Arabic
List of Malay Manuscripts and Printed Books presented to the University Library, Cambridge, by R.J. Wilkinson, November... (UA ULIB 7/3/76)
CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1900
Arabic
al-Mughnī fī al-ṭibābah (Gg.5.29)
Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · Before second half of the sixth century A.H / twelfth century C.E.
Arabic
Durr al-buḥūr (Qq. 68)
Ignacio Sanchez, Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · 1810
Arabic
Dalāʼil al-khayrāt (MS Or.2251)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 20th century C.E.
Persian
A supplementary hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts including all those written in the Arabic character (A233.34.2)
CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1922
Persian
A catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge (A233.40)
CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1896
Persian
Ṣuwar al-aqālīm (K. 1)
Yasmin Faghihi · Cambridge University Library · probably 16th/17th C. The manuscript is undated.
Arabic
al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1148)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 9th or 10th century AD /3rd or 4th century Hijri
Persian
Tafsīr-i Qurʼān (MS Mm.4.15)
Ignacio Sanchez · Cambridge University Library · 628 A.H. / 1231 C.E.
Persian
A hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library... (A233.34.1)
CUL · Cambridge University Library · 1900
Arabic
Catalogue of the Buchanan Collection (MS Nn.6.45(2))
CUL · Cambridge University Library · c.1815
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