Islamic Manuscripts Collection, University of Michigan LibraryThe Islamic Manuscripts Collection within the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Michigan Library consists of more than 1,800 texts chiefly in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish preserved in just over 1,100 volumes dating from the 8th to the 20th century CE.
Shahnama Project, University of Cambridget the core of the Shahnama Project is an online corpus of illustrated manuscripts of the Shahnama, the Persian epic poem composed by Firdausi of Tus in A.D. 1010
African Ajami Library, Boston UniversityAAL is a collaborative open access public repository of aggregated Ajami materials. This initiative between Boston University and the West African Research Center (WARC) is partly funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme.
Included are the following sub collections:
Fuuta Jalon Pular Ajami Manuscripts
Hausa Manuscripts
Mandinka Ajami and Arabic Manuscripts of Casamance Senegal
Philippe Beaujard Sorabe (Malagasy) Ajami Collection
Wolofal Manauscripts Senegal
Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online. UKThe Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine. For the first time this website enables a substantial proportion of this collection to be consulted online via high-quality digital images of entire manuscripts and associated rich metadata.
Daiber Collection Database, University of TokyoThis collection is the corpus of manuscripts mainly focused on Arabic, collected by Dr. Hans Daiber, a professor of Islamic studies in Germany, over many years. Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo purchased the collection, its first part in 1986-1987 and its second part in 1994.
Islamic Collections, Walters Art Museum, BaltimoreThe Walters’ collection of Islamic Manuscripts showcases masterpieces of illuminated and illustrated manuscripts. The sacred, devotional and non-religious manuscripts presented here were created across the breadth of the Islamic world and date from the 9th through the 19th century. In the Islamic book, the primary vehicle for literary and artistic expression, the powers of poetry, prayer and visual form collide. They bear witness to remarkable achievements in literature and the book arts.
Islamic Manuscripts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYThe Met's collection of Islamic art ranges in date from the seventh to the twenty-first century. Its more than 15,000 objects reflect the great diversity and range of the cultural traditions of Islam, with works from as far westward as Spain and Morocco and as far eastward as Central Asia and Indonesia. Comprising both sacred and secular objects, the collection reveals the mutual influence of artistic practices such as calligraphy, and the exchange of motifs such as vegetal ornament (the arabesque) and geometric patterning in both realms.
Manuscripts of the Muslim World, OPENNManuscripts of the Muslim World will include digital editions of more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the Islamicate world broadly construed. Together these holdings represent in great breadth the flourishing intellectual and cultural heritage of Muslim lands from 1000 to 1900, covering mathematics, astrology, history, law, literature, as well as the Qur'an and Hadith. The primary partners are Columbia University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania with signifiant contributions from Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College.
Oriental Manuscripts Collection, University of EdinburghA large part of the Oriental Manuscript Collection consists of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. Arabic manuscripts include commentaries on the Koran; traditions of the Prophet and Imam; prayers; law, general history and biography; medicine, mathematics, philosophy and ethics; and, grammar, rhetoric, poetry, prose, tales, dictionary, and controversy. Persian manuscripts include theology, history, biography, and travel; mathematics and astronomy; ethics, poetry, music, composition and proverbs, tales and romances; grammar and dictionary; and, agriculture and war.
Islamic Painted PageWelcome to the Islamic Painted Page -
a huge free database of Persian, Ottoman,
Arab and Mughal paintings, illuminations,
decorated Qur'an pages, and book bindings
from over 310 collections worldwide. The Database covers examples of the painted page dating from about 700 to 1900 CE from all over the Islamic world. Persian painting and Ottoman painting are especially widely covered but Arab, Sultanate, Mughal and other sources are all included. The Database includes illuminations, decorated Qur'an pages and book bindings as well as figurative paintings in manuscripts, albums and on single pages.
Islamic Medical Manuscripts, National Library of MedicineThe site provides a catalogue raisonné (including images) from the 300 or so Persian and Arabic manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine. Most of these manuscripts deal with medieval medicine and science and were written for learned physicians and scientists. Some of the manuscripts are richly illuminated and illustrated.
Manuscripts of the Islamic World, Princeton UniversityManuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish.