Middle Eastern Studies

"Collection consists of bound manuscripts of varying contents most notable for its early material which includes a papyrus fragment from the 7th century, a vellum Breviary (French, 15th century), a North French or Flemish Book of hours (late 15th or early 16th century), Persian and Arabic manuscripts, manuscript books from the 16th through 18th century, commonplace books, Friendship albums, and personal journals..."

"Armenian manuscripts, gifted to the UCLA Library in 1968 by Dr. Garo Owen Minasian of Isfahan, Iran. The collection includes manuscripts of ecclesiastical character such as gospels, psalters, menologia, and ritual books, as well as theological and philosophical works, medical treatises, and anthologies of poetry..."

"The Minasian Collection of Persian and Arabic manuscripts consists of works related to the studies of theologians and scholars in centers of learning in Iran from the 16th through the 19th centuries. The manuscripts, which include both bound collections and single works, chiefly date from the 14th to the 17th centuries, and shed light on the social, religious, and political history of Iran and Shī'īsm..."

"The Arabic Papyrology Database allows you to search Arabic documents on papyrus, parchment and paper from the 7th up the 16th century A.D..."

"The Avestan Digital Archive (ADA) seeks to be a digital archive containing all Avestan manuscripts spread all over the world..."

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Via Gallica, BNF's digital library

Cultural Imaginings: the creation of the Arab World in the Western Mind is a collaboration between The George Washington University's Gelman Library and Georgetown University's Lauinger Library funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services to evaluate automatic book scanning methodology by digitizing approximately 2,500 monographic volumes and a number of bound manuscripts from the Middle East and North Africa...

"The purpose of the “Explore a Manuscript” section is to offer a detailed visual overview of Islamic manuscripts using a selection of works from Indiana University collections..."

Part of the Wellcome collection of Arabic manuscripts presently shelved at WMS AR 400 - WMS AR. 487 constitute most of the Arabic medical manuscript collection of Dr Sami Ibrahim Haddād (1890-1957), the well-known Lebanese physician and historian of medicine.

More than 280 manuscripts from Houghton Library and the Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

"MANUMED is a project for the development of the written and immaterial heritage of the euro-mediterranean area."

Collection of nearly 7000 digitized books and manuscripts. Membership is required. Click on Uye ol, to become a member.

The Caro Minasian Collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections is one of the most extensive post-classical Islamic manuscript collections in the United States...

"This database catalogues the holdings of over 200 Qur’anic manuscript folios dating from the 9th to the 16th centuries housed within the special collections of the Brown University libraries..."

The exhibition Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum coincides with the initiative to catalogue and make high-resolution digital surrogates of all Islamic manuscripts and single pages preserved at the Walters Art Museum, a project generously funded by a Preservation and Access Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for the digital library.

"Digitized material from the Oriental Collections. The materials have been selected acconding of their rarity, calligraphy, historical value and illustrations..."

Features the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, al-Qazwini's Wonders of Creation, and others

The collection has approximately 1,300 manuscripts in Near Eastern languages, Arabic, Persian and Turkish.

Electronic edition of Kitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn, known as the Book of Curiosities

Selected manuscripts

"This 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..."

The Wellcome Library, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and King’s College London, have formed a partnership to create a free searchable online catalogue of 500 Islamic manuscripts in the Wellcome Library.

"The collection consists of posters from Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Poster topics are related to ancient civilization, architecture, art, asthma, conflict, culture, disability, environment, equestrianism, family, Kurds, population, public health, recycling, reproductive health, road safety, theater, tourism, waste, and wildlife..."

"The American Orientalism collection consists of photographic materials, pulp fiction, men's adventure magazines, comic books, audio and video recordings, advertisements, games, artifacts and objects, books, and sheet music..."