Orient South Asian Manuscripts The Oriental Department manages about 10,000 manuscripts in South Asian languages and scripts on various writing materials, whereby the Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts of [...] 1668 and continued until about 1700 mentions two Malabar manuscripts (Tamil) among the 100 existing oriental manuscripts, which, however, could not yet be assigned to any objects. However, the earliest de [...] the originally planned Part 3 of the VOHD ; Vol. 22: Singhalesische Handschriften . Catalogues The Oriental Department also preserves the materials of the "Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project" (NGMPP)

Orient Manuscripts from Southeast Asia The collection of manuscripts from Southeast Asia is characterized by the multitude of languages that can be found in it. Carl Schoemann's important collection alone

Orient Armenian Manuscripts The first four Armenian manuscripts were brought to the then Electoral Library in the 17th century by the orientalist Theodor Peträus. In the 19th century, a heyday of the Oriental [...] Oriental collection at the Royal Library in Berlin, there were another 95 Armenian manuscripts. They came primarily from Persia and the Ottoman Empire and were acquired as part of the important Minutoli

Orient Catalogues of Manuscripts Electronic catalogues The central catalogue of oriental manuscripts is the Qalamos database . In the context of indexing, digitization and retroconversion projects, the [...] "Cataloguing Oriental Manuscripts in Germany" of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities have been inserted in the KOHD-Digital database since 2016. Printed Catalogues The oriental manuscripts [...] in the Qalamos database are available. Please inquire about this in the Orient and East Asia Reading Room. As a first orientation, the unprinted and unedited pdf of the manuscript of E. Roth can be useful

Orient African Manuscripts The cataloguing of the African manuscript holdings began only after the 2nd World War and as part of the KOHD project. Subsequently, two partial volumes "African Manuscripts"

Orient Coptic Manuscripts The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin owns an important collection of 111 Coptic and 2 Old Nubian manuscripts. Already in the years 1677 to 1679, the widow of the orientalist Theodor

Orient Hebrew Manuscripts The collection of Hebrew manuscripts contains numerous outstanding and precious individual pieces. The collection, which today comprises around 500 volumes, was built up with

Orient New acquisitions The current new acquisitions of printed publications in the general collection can be viewed here . In accordance with its new acquisition profile , the Oriental Department also