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

microfilms of oriental manuscripts. The collection currently comprises more than 42,000 volumes of original manuscripts as well as more than 180,000 films, mainly of manuscripts from Nepal, which have [...] Orient Manuscripts of the Oriental Department The Oriental Department administrates all Oriental and parts of the East Asian manuscripts of the Staatsbibliothek. The same applies to Tibetan and Mongolian [...] by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. The Oriental Department has also been entrusted with the librarian and conservational care of the approximately 40,000 manuscript fragments of the Berlin

Orient Persian Manuscripts The Persian manuscript collection of the Staatsbibliothek, which currently comprises about 2,907 volumes, has a long tradition. It is possible that Persian manuscripts were already [...] foundation in 1661. These manuscripts come from different provenances and are due to numerous orientalists, envoys, diplomats and travelling merchants. Thus, in 1672, the manuscripts in Persian and Turkish [...] to the Royal Library, contains 17,000 printed books and 836 manuscripts, including over 400 oriental ones. Among the 51 Persian manuscripts are unique miniature albums. Some leaves of these albums probably

Orient Manuscripts The Oriental Department holds all of Staatsbibliothek's Oriental manuscripts and a part of the East Asian manuscripts as well as Tibetan and Mongolian block prints, photocopies, facsimile [...] microfilms of Oriental manuscripts. In addition to more than 42,000 volumes of original manuscripts, current holdings also include over 180,000 films. These films primarily contain manuscripts from Nepal that [...] all Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts are collected in Qalamos . The portal lists the classmarks and essential metadata of all Berlin manuscripts. The number of detailed descriptions is growing

"African Manuscripts", Ewald Wagner recorded the Islamic manuscripts of Ethiopia, which, unlike the Christian-Ethiopian manuscripts, had not yet been catalogued. (see " Ethiopian Manuscripts "). Band 24 [...] 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" of the [...] mission archives. The collection of 125 Swahili manuscripts (some of them bundles of several letters or notes) is the numerically largest African manuscript corpus in the State Library. Large parts of it

scrolls, a Tosefta manuscript, a Machsor, two Rashi manuscripts, other very old Bible codices and a composite manuscript with Aesop's fables. For several years, these Erfurt manuscripts have been intensively [...] 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 [...] up the collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the last decades of the 19th century, but also catalogued it. He listed 259 volumes in his catalogue. One of the first manuscripts in the holdings of the Electoral

- 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

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 [...] Armenian manuscripts. They came primarily from Persia and the Ottoman Empire and were acquired as part of the important Minutoli and Petermann collections. The seven oldest complete manuscripts of the Berlin [...] date from the 19th century. Of the total of 134 manuscripts, fifty are illuminated, including twenty-four complete gospels. The majority of the manuscripts (99) were already described in 1888 by Nicolaus

"Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts": Since 2012, the Oriental Department has regularly organized workshops and summer schools on various Oriental manuscript traditions. A special focus of these [...] Workshop - Manuscriptnotes Codicological and Paleographical Aspects of Islamic Manuscripts, with a Special Focus on Manuscript Notes (25. bis 29. März 2019) The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Freie Universität [...] Turkish Turkish Manuscript Studies: An Introduction (27. März bis 1. April 2017) The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin organized a workshop on Turkish manuscript studies. The

Hs. orient. Manuscripts of all formats Hs. or. sim. Hs.or.sim. Hs.or.Sim. Facsimiles, photos, films Hs. K. or. Signatures of 501 Naxi manuscripts Special shelf marks of oriental manuscripts In the Royal [...] A. Fol. Manuscripts in folio Diez A oct. Do Diez A 8°. Diez A. 8°. Ms. Diez A. 8°. Ms. Diez. A. 8°. Manuscripts in oktavo Diez A quart. Dq Diez A. 4° Ms. Diez A. 4°. Ms. Diez. A. 4°. Manuscripts in Quarto [...] the past two centuries, the shelf marks of the oriental manuscripts appear in various forms. The shelf mark labels and entries on the manuscripts themselves are also rich in variants. The shelf marks in