LibGuides: Find Arabic Manuscripts: Exhibits and Projects

Online Exhibits

Folios from Arabic Scientific Heritage
From Pen to Printing Press
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A permanent exhibition illustrating Indiana's Islamic Manuscripts collection as well as offering a nice overview of the history of Islamic printing.
Illuminated Islamic Manuscripts, Yale University
Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
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A catalogue(including images) from the 300 or so Persian and Arabic manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum
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Illuminated and illustrated manuscripts produced in Islamic lands from the 9-19 centuries (Exhibit).
An exhibition honoring the art of reciting poetry and prayer and its visual manifestation in the manuscript book.

Arab/Islamic Science Manuscripts Digitization Project (UNESCO)
The aim of this project is to digitize Arabi/Islamic Science manuscripts (1,800) held at the National Library of Egypt.
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The ptoject resulting from cooperation between the UNESCO Cairo Office, the Egyptian National Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) and the National Library of Egypt.
Eye on Arabic-Islamic Heritage
UNESCO - Youssef Ziedan
Islamic Manuscripts Cataloging Project at Michigan University
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This site is part of an ongoing project to fully catalogue the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI)
McGill University
Manumed Maniscripts Project
MANUMED is a project for the development of the written and immaterial heritage of the euro-mediterranean area.
Manuscript Archives
From the Middle East Medievalists
Refaiya at the University Library in Leipzig
Damascene family library
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University Library of Leipzig. The Refaiya contains 487 manuscripts from the 10th to the 19th century; digital access is provided to a group of about 55 Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts.
Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery
Proposal to build a virtual manuscript reading room.
Yemen Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI)
YMDI’s partner institutions, Princeton University Library and Free University, Berlin recently received an NEH/DFG Enriching Digital Collections grant.