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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
Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
jazūlī, muḥammad ibn sulaymān; batchelder, john davis; mawl… · Library of Congress · 1772
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 08??
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress
Persian
Page from the "Farhang-i Jahangiri"
Library of Congress · 1619
Arabic
Kitāb qurrat al-ʻayn fī tasyīr al-nayyirayn
mansuri collection (library of congress); manṣūrī, maḥmūd a… · Library of Congress · 1525
Arabic
Hādhā kitāb Fatḥ al-majīd bi-kifāyat al-murīd ʻalá al-Jazāyirīyah jamaʻ al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah awḥad al-fuṣaḥā wa-qudwat al-bulaghā wahīd ʻaṣrihi wa-farīd dahrihi Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Salām al-Laqānī al-Mālikī
mansuri collection (library of congress); manṣūrī, maḥmūd a… · Library of Congress
Arabic
Id blessings
muhammad) 'ali · Library of Congress · 1729
Arabic
Invocation of 'Ali
ahmad al-husayni · 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
Ottoman Turkish
Kitâb-i tezkiret ül-evliyâ
harawī, muḥammad; ʻaṭṭār, farīd al-dīn · Library of Congress
Arabic
Sūrat al-Anʻām
Library of Congress
Arabic
Faux Kufi Qur'an
Library of Congress · 19??
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 13??
Persian
Sa'di's "Gulistan" (The Rose Garden)
Library of Congress · 14??
Persian
Verses in Persian and Chaghatay
Library of Congress · 1600
Persian
Verses on tragic love
shah muhammad al-mashhadi · Library of Congress · 1560
Persian
Sāqīʹnāmah
ishrāq, ʻabd al-fattāh · Library of Congress · 1777
Urdu
Sample calligraphies
hakim sayyid hamid 'abbas al-taqawi al-bukhari · Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Hādhā Bughyat al-ṭullāb ʻalá Munyat al-ḥussāb
mansuri collection (library of congress); shandawīlī, harīd… · Library of Congress · 17??
Persian
Illuminated sarloh (frontispiece)
Library of Congress · 17??
Arabic
Hādhā kitāb al-Maṭālib al-wafīyah sharḥ al-Farāʼid al-sanīyah fī ʻilm al-tawḥīd
nābulusī, ʻabd al-ghanī ibn ismāʻīl; mansuri collection (li… · Library of Congress
Arabic
Kitāb azhār al-afkār fī jawāhir aḥjār
tīfāshī, aḥmad ibn yūsuf; nīshī, maḥmūd ibn ḥasan; muḥammad… · Library of Congress · 16??
Arabic
Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
mansuri collection (library of congress); yūsuf, ṭāhā; manṣ… · Library of Congress · 1888
Arabic
Safavid Qur'an (2:11-27)
Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
al-Juzʼ al-thālith ʻashar min al-rubʻah al-sharīfah
Library of Congress · 14??
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 14??
Persian
[Anonymous Islamic treatise on creation in Persian]
Library of Congress · 1877
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 08??
Arabic
Nubdhah laṭīfah fī ʻilm al-kitābah wa-al-aḥbār
mansuri collection (library of congress); būnī, aḥmad ibn ʻ… · Library of Congress · 1852
Arabic
Qur'anic verses
Library of Congress · 08??
Arabic
Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
jazūlī, muḥammad ibn sulaymān · Library of Congress
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
al-Kawākib al-durīyah fī madḥ Khayr al-Barīyah
būṣīrī, sharaf al-dīn muḥammad ibn saʻīd · Library of Congress
Arabic
Tārika Nagaśt : = [History of Kings]
Library of Congress · 19??
Persian
Quatrain on separation
abdallah (isfahani) · Library of Congress · 15??
Arabic
Faṣl fī uṣūl khalq ibrāʼ Adam
dukur, muḥammad; omar ibn said collection (library of congr… · Library of Congress · 1855
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