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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
Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah va al-maghfirah
firdawsī · Library of Congress · 1618
Persian
Verses in Persian and Chaghatay
Library of Congress · 1600
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
Taʻlīq ʻalá al-urjūzah al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr
ibn al-yāsamīn, ʻabd allāh ibn ḥajjāj; manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-i… · Library of Congress · 1911
Arabic
Qalāyid al-durar min aqsām al-athar
manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imām; mansuri collection (library of con… · Library of Congress
Persian
Illuminated sarloh (frontispiece)
Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
هذا كتاب حديقة ازهار المعارف يختص بالتنزه بها كل شخص عارف.
Princeton University Library · 1600-1699
Arabic
كتاب الحان السواجع / للصلاح الصفدي خليل بن ايبك.
Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak, approximately 1297-1363 · Princeton University Library · 1887-1887
Persian
[Gulistān]
saʻdī · Library of Congress · 1593
Persian
Two verses of poetry
Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
Kitāb al-Uss fī al-ʻamal bi-al-sayf wa-al-turs. Wa-yalīhi Kitāb al-kifayah fī ʻilm al-rimāyah
ḥamawī, muḥammad ibn ʻalī · Library of Congress · 1591
Arabic
الغايات علي الفوائد المهمات ... [الخ.]
Princeton University Library · 1800-1899
Arabic
al-Majmūʻah.
Princeton University Library · 1690-1709
Persian
The battle of Mazandaran
Library of Congress · 1564
Persian
Quatrain on reaching divine unity
imad al-hasani · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Quatrain on true knowledge
imad al-hasani · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Verses by Hilali
mir 'ali and sultan bayazid · Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
قطع من المنظومات السبع.
Princeton University Library · 1600-1723
Arabic
شرح الارجوزة
Averroës, 1126-1198 · Princeton University Library · 1480
Persian
شاهنامه.
Firdawsī · Princeton University Library · 1575-1625
Persian
Muraqqa' of Poetical Excerpts
mirza quli mayli · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Shi'i invocation to a ruler
hafiz nur allah · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Divan-i Ṭarzī
ʻabd al-laṭīf khān pisar-i ʻabd al-ghaffār khān; ṭarzī, ghu… · Library of Congress · 1914
Persian
Quatrain of Kamal al-Din Isma'il
imad al-hasani · Library of Congress · 16??
Arabic
Hādhihi Manẓūmah li-Ibn al-ʻImād fī ziyārat al-qubūr ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-kamāl
manṣūrī, maḥmūd al-imām; ibn al-ʻimād, ʻabd al-ḥayy ibn aḥm… · Library of Congress
Arabic
Hādhā kitāb Sharḥ al-maqāṣid al-ḥusná li-naẓm al-Shaykh al-Dardīr ilá asmāʼ Allāh al-ḥusná
mansuri collection (library of congress); manṣūrī, maḥmūd a… · Library of Congress
Persian
Decorative borders
Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Dīvān-i Kalīm
kalīm, abū ṭālib · Library of Congress · 1695
Persian
1st Page of Sa'di's Bustan
abd al-rashid daylami · Library of Congress · 16??
Persian
Various verses of poetry
shah mahmud al-nishapuri · Library of Congress · 1550
Persian
Shah-nameh by Firdausi
firdawsī · Library of Congress · 1600
Persian
Verses on the permanence of good deeds
muhammad husayn al-kashmiri · Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Praise (Madh) to 'Ali
abd al-bari al-husayni · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Ghazals of Asifi
Library of Congress · 15??
Persian
Bahram Gur hunting
Library of Congress · 15??
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