Online Manuscript Catalogues
- Arabic Manuscripts from West Africa: A Catalog of the Herskovits Library Collection
The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University houses an important collection of Arabic script materials from West Africa. It contains over 5,000 items collected from Africa and donated to the lLibrary by several Northwestern professors.
- Bayerische StaatsBibliothek: Orientalische und ostasiatische Handschriften
Includes digitised manuscripts as well as scanned versions of the Library’s catalogues.
- Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara
A collection manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission manuscripts in Timbuktu
- Cambridge Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
A selection of several Qur’an manuscripts from Cambridge University Library
- Cambridge University Library: Faith & Fable
Downloadable pdf version of the booklet Faith & Fable: Islamic Manuscripts from Cambridge University Library
- Caro Minasian Collection of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles Library
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 Shi'ism.
- Digital Library of Malay Manuscripts
The Digital Library of Malay Manuscripts contains images of Malay manuscripts from the collections of the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka and the University of Malaya. It also aims to include images of Malay manuscripts held in collections outside Malaysia. Additionally, the website makes available published editions of Malay manuscripts, as well as articles and reports on Malay manuscripts and Malay manuscript culture.
- Digitized Manuscripts at the American University of Beirut Libraries
- Fihrist: Islamic Manuscripts Catalogue Online
A catalogue with basic manuscript descriptions for items held in the British Library; Cambridge University Library; the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford; the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; the University of Birmingham; the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester; and the Wellcome Library, Wellcome Trust.
- Islamic Manuscripts at the Leipzig University Library
- Islamic Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
This 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.
- ISMI: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
- King Saud University
- Library of Congress Online Catalogue
- Library of Congress: Selections if Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy
- Library of Congress: Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
- Markaz Wadud lil-Makhtutat
- Middle East Manuscripts at University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Mu’assasat Kashif al-Ghita’ al-‘Amma
- National Library of Bulgaria, Digital Library
This website sections on Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts as well as Defters and Sijills
- Oxford Digital Library: Features of the Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collections
- Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum
- Princeton University Manuscripts Division, Islamic Manuscripts
Pdf versions of Princeton University Library’s published catalogues as well as lists of recent acquisitions
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Two hundred digitized Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts from the largest collection of Islamic manuscripts in North America.
- Shahnama Project
This site brings you a comprehensive collection of manuscripts of the Shahnama, the Persian epic 'Book of Kings', completed by the poet Firdausi in AD 1010, together with a display of the miniature paintings in each one. There are currently about 1500 manuscripts and single pages recorded, 18,000 records of paintings, and 12,000 images from all over the world, now accessible with a few clicks of a mouse.
- Turkish Ministry of Tourism and Culture Manuscripts Site
- Turkish Religious Foundation, Centre of Islamic Studies Database of Manuscripts at Turkish Libraries (Türkiye Kütüphaneleri Veri Tabanı)
- University of Freiburg Oriental Manuscript Resource (OMAR)
- Waqfiya al-Shaykh ‘Ali ibn ‘Abdallah al-Thani
- Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online
The 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.
- West African Arabic Manuscript Project (The Arabic Manuscript Management System)
AMMS is a bi-lingual database that was developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s to describe a collection of Arabic manuscripts in southern Mauritania (Boutilimit). It subsequently has been used to catalogue seven other West African collections including the manuscript libraries at the Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique, Northwestern University, and the Centre Ahmad Baba in Timbuctu.
- Yale-School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Islamic Manuscript Gallery
Yale University-based website
SOAS-based website