Find Arabic Manuscripts: Digitized Manuscripts

A selection of fully digitized Arabic manuscripts all of which one is able to download into a pdf.

Directory of websites that display digitized images of Islamic manuscripts.

Today, the library holds around 5,300 volumes, for example Arabic, Turkish or Hebrew manuscripts, but also smaller groups in the Armenian or Syrian languages.

Several important early Qurʾāns

Manuscripts from Iran.

British Library: Endangered Manuscripts (supported by Arcadia)

Royal Danish Library

443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available through Digital Collections.

Collection of the Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative (ISMI)

Medical manuscripts.

Access to 784 digtized Islamic manuscripts more. Continuous project.

British Library: Endangered Archives (supported by Arcadia)

The IHP collection now includes over 280 manuscripts, selected from Houghton Library and the Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

contains information on over 1,500 scientists, their works, and their social milieu, spanning the entire Islamic world, from Islamic Spain to India and the borders of China, beginning in the 8th century and continuing until the 19th.

Damascene family library

consists of works related to the studies of theologians and scholars in centers of learning in Iran from the 16th through the 19th centuries

Features of the Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collections

It provides 200 fully digitized Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts.

The Virtual Library aims at establishing a corpus of digital documents, free of copyright, including manuscripts.

Access to 29 Isalmic Arabic manuscripts and 7 Christian Arabic, 11 Syriac, 10 Persian, 8 Greek ...

The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine.

Columbia University Libraries is proud to be a partner recipient of a $500,000 grant to support the digitization of Islamic manuscripts and paintings dating from 1000 to 1900. The Manuscripts of the Muslim World project—supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), which is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—will provide digital access to 576 Islamic manuscripts and 827 paintings that have previously been largely invisible to scholars. 

Omani ministry of Heritage and Culture has announced it is sharing more than 4,000 manuscripts electronically to researchers on its website