Orient
Limited service starting July 1, 2026
Starting July 1, 2026, preparations will begin for the relocation of the special collections of the Department of Oriental Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies as part of the upcoming comprehensive renovation of the building on Potsdamer Straße.
As a result, access to Oriental and Asian manuscripts and other special materials in our collection will not be available until approximately the end of September 2026. We regret that other services, such as reproduction requests, will also not be available during this period.
We ask our users for their understanding regarding these unavoidable restrictions.
We will inform you in a timely manner on our website about when access will resume—expected to be in October 2026.
Scriptorium 2024: Call for Applications
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation (London) are planning from 9 to 13 September 2024 a workshop on "Material Aspects of Manuscripts of the Islamicate World, with a Special Focus on Bookbinding" as part of the series "Scriptorium: Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts".
Further information can be found here: Call for Applications.
Scriptorium 2023: Qur’anic manuscripts, past and present: Cataloging and digital tools
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation (London) are planning a workshop on Qur’anic manuscripts as part of the series "Scriptorium: Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts". Further information can be found here: Call for Applications.
