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 North Indian [...] the nearly 2000 manuscripts in the Kashmiri Śāradā script. Manuscripts from South Asia reached Berlin relatively late and initially only sparsely. After all, a catalogue of manuscripts in the Electoral [...] with descriptions of the 844 manuscripts of the Chambers collection and the 56 other Sanskrit manuscripts acquired up to 1852. Albrecht Weber's catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts was a pioneering achievement

of Oriental manuscripts This training course / workshop will be organized under the title: “Codicological and Paleographical Aspects of Islamic Manuscripts, with a Special Focus on Manuscript Notes” Cod [...] Oriental manuscripts Persian Manuscript Studies: An Introduction The participants will be introduced to the study of different codicological and paleographical aspects of Persian manuscripts, including [...] especially, Asian and African manuscripts to libraries in Germany between, roughly, the 17 th and 21 st century. German libraries have more than 100,000 objects from such manuscript traditions in their custody

- Original wooden cover of a Syrian manuscript from 1614 Ms. or. fol. 1633 - Syrian manuscript rescued from a fire Ms. or. fol. 1633 - West Syriac chants, manuscript from the 13th/14th century Digitisation [...] fold (detail) Digitisation of Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation of Hebrew Manuscripts A generous donation enables the extensive digitisation of Hebrew manuscripts. Scope of the project is the restoration [...] of all Hebrew manuscript holdings of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The restoration of the Bible Erfurt 1 (Band 1 – Ms. or. fol. 1210) The Erfurt manuscripts consist The Erfurt manuscripts consist of four