Medieval Manuscripts – Islamic/ Middle Eastern

• A Literary History of Medicine: The University of Oxford, The University of Warwick –(Forthcoming) Online edition of 13th century physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s history of medicineThe Best Accounts of the Classes of Physicians in Arabic and translated into English
• Cairo Genizah: Cambridge Digital Library – The Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library is the world’s largest and most important single collection of medieval Jewish manuscripts. It containsnot only the expected religious works, such as Bibles, prayer books and compendia of Jewish law, but also secular works and everyday documents: shopping lists, marriage contracts, divorce deeds, pages from Arabic fables, works of Sufi and Shi’ite philosophy, medical books, magical amulets, business letters and accounts, and hundreds of letters.
• Digitized Medieval Manuscripts App – Links to more than 300 digital libraries home to more than 20,000 medieval manuscripts
• Islamic Heritage Project: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Over 280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps, totaling over 156,000 pages, representing regions, including Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and South, Southeast, and Central Asia; several languages, primarily Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish; also Urdu, Chagatai, Malay, Gujarati, Indic languages, and several Western languages; and subjects, including religious texts and commentaries; Sufism; history, geography, law, and the sciences (astronomy, astrology, mathematics, medicine); poetry and literature; rhetoric, logic, and philosophy; calligraphy, dictionaries and grammar, as well as biographies and autobiographical works.
• Islamic Manuscripts Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – More than 1,200 digitized Islamic manuscripts
• Islamic Manuscripts: Cambridge Digital Library – The collection includes Cambridge University’s earliest Qur’anic manuscripts copied during the first four centuries of Islam, literature encompassing the Islamic tradition including the only extant copy of Kitāb al-tawhīd, the famous theological work by by al-Maturidi, as well as works on scienceand some richly illustrated examples of Persian literature.
• Islamic Medical Manuscripts: National Library of Medicine – 300 Persian and Arabic manuscripts dealing with medieval medicine and science and written for learned physicians and scientists.
• Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative: McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science – The mission of this initiative is to make accessible information on all Islamic manuscripts in the exact sciences (astronomy, mathematics, optics, mathematical geography, music, mechanics, and related disciplines), whether in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or other languages. The current phase makes available images of 123 scientific and mathematical codices from the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin
• Médecine arabe: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé – Collection of 15 Arabic medieval medical manuscripts
• Michaelides Fragments: Cambridge Digital Library – The Michaelides fragments comprise the largest private collection of Arabic papyri to be found in any institution worldwide. It comprises personal letters, legal texts, accounts, literary texts, recipes and other documents.
• Oriental Collections: Bodleian Libraries – 38 manuscripts from the Middle East and Asia
• Oxford Islamic Studies Online – reference entries, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
• Qatar Digital Library – The library contains more than 500,000 images including 500 maps, charts, and plans of the Persian Gulf and the wider region, and Arabic scientific manuscripts on topics such as medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and engineering. The library also contains articles written by experts on selected documents.
• Turning the Pages Online: National Library of Medicine – digitized images of rare and historic books in the history of medicine including al-Qazwini’s Wonders of Creation
• Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online – Nearly 500 volumes of Arabic manuscripts covering not only medicine and pharmacology, but cosmology, alchemy, cookery, and more.
• Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative: Princeton University Digital Library -Manuscripts from three private libraries in Sanaa, Yemen