General Listings
Bibliographies and Catalogues in the West - Encyclopaedia Iranica
University of Michigan's Listing of Print Catalogues of Manuscript Libraries and Collections
Europe
Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Scanned Collections Catalogs
Inventory of the Oriental Manuscripts of the library of the University of Leiden
Middle East and Africa
Aghabozorg - provides digital access to printed catalogs for libraries in Iran.
Bibliographies and Catalogues in Iran - Encyclopaedia Iranica
Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı - catalog of over 600,000 manuscripts and 400,000 images in Turkish collections
North America
South Asia
Manuscript Collections in Nearby Institutions
Collections in the Middle East
The Chester Beatty Online Collections feature objects and books from the Chester Beatty museum and library in Dublin, Ireland. It is home to one of the most significant collections of Islamic and Near Eastern artefacts and manuscripts. Take a look at their Islamic Collection, Arabic Collection, Persian Collection, Turkish Collection, and Syriac Collection.
Fihrist is an online catalogue and database of Islamicate manuscripts help in contributing libraries in the United Kingdom, which include the Bodleian at the University of Oxford, the Cambridge University Library, SOAS, the British Library, and others. It includes digitizations when available, as well as catalogue entries for manuscript descriptions of both digitized and currently undigitized materials.
Here you can learn about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe. This site, with its biographies, colorful images, and extensive historical accounts of medieval medicine and science is designed for students and everyone interested in the history of Islamic and European culture.
For students, the site includes an extensive glossary of medical, scientific, and book-production terminology linked to the text.
For advanced scholars, the 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.
The United States Library of Congress styles itself the "largest library in the world," with its thousands of books and multimedia files. The Digital arm of the library has an impressive collection of accessible pre-modern and modern materials, including the African and Middle Eastern Division, which incudes collections dedicated to Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Tajikistan Government Web Archive, Manuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Persian Language Rare Materials, and many more.
Qalamos is a database of Near Eastern manuscripts across Germany. It provides direct access to metadata and digitizations of manuscripts (if available). It features approximately 135,000 manuscript datasets in more than 160 languages and scripts. Qalamos seeks to enhance international collaboration and access by also featuring collections from Indonesia, Yemen, Mauritania, and Austria.
This catalog givers users access to over 600,000 manuscripts and 400,000 images in Turkish collections. You will need to create an account to access these resources.
Free registration is required. This site preserves images of all the Genizah fragments accompanied by extensive information : Identifications, catalog records, bibliographic data, transcriptions, translations etc.
Provides digital access to the digitized items at Cambridge University Library. The numerous collection cover the ancient to the modern, and strives to provide international access to world heritage collections, facilitate collaboration and engagement.
Sefaria is home to 3,000 years of Jewish texts. We are a non-profit organization offering free access to texts, translations, and commentaries so that everyone can participate in the ongoing process of studying, interpreting, and creating Torah.
Interregional
Alphabetical list of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections
eBethArké Digital Library - Beth Mardutho Library and the Rutgers University Libraries The Beth Mardutho Library and the Rutgers University Libraries are partnering in the digitization of Syriac texts
European Cultural Heritage Online-Islamic Scientific Manuscripts
Friedberg Genizah Project (FGP) FGP is operating in a joint venture with the Jewish Manuscript Preservation Society of Toronto, Canada.
World Digital Library - Middle East & North Africa Manuscripts Library of Congress
Europe
Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Manuscrits -- Afrique -- Amérique -- Proche-Orient
Ancient texts published online by the Bodleian and the Vatican Libraries
University of Cambridge - Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection
University of Cambridge Near & Middle East Manuscript Collection & Catalogs
University of Oxford - Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera Middle East Collection
Middle East and North Africa
Iryan Moftah Collection of Coptic Books and Manuscripts - American University in Cairo
Library of Congress - Islamic Manuscripts from Mali features 32 manuscripts from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha, both in Timbuktu, Mali.
National Library and Archives of Iran The National Library and Archives of Iran has granted access to 7 featured Heritage Objects through World Digital Library.
Topkapı Palace Museum For reviews of Topkapı library collections, you can read Hazine's archive review.
North America
Brown University-Minassian Collection of Qur'anic Manuscripts
Columbia University Libraries - Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS)
Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
Library of Congress - Kirkor Minassian Collection (General Information)
Packard Humanities Institute - Persian Literature in Translation
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) - UPenn
University of Pennsylvania - Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
UCLA Library - Caro Minasian Collection of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts
University of Nebraska (Omaha) - Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection
South and East Asia