Religion Studies: Islam: Primary Sources (Manuscripts)

A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.

List of manuscripts available from online sources.

Collection of roughly 1,100 manuscript codices dating from the 8th to the 20th century CE and carrying texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish.

The 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.

The Princeton University Library has some 9,500 Islamic manuscripts, chiefly bound paper codices, containing a total of more than 20,000 texts.

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.