Alphabetical list of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections

66 collections as of December 5, 2021
[First posted 12/10/2010, updated 12/5/2021]

• Aga Khan Museum (AKM) manuscripts - Toronto, Canada
• AMBULO - Arabic Manuscripts in the Bologna University Library Online
• American University in Beirut - Jafet Library
• al-Aqsa Mosque Library, East Jerusalem 
• Arabic and Berber manuscripts in Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur libraries
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München - Islamic Manuscripts
• Berlin Staatsbibliothek - Orient Digital - Islamic Manuscripts Collection
• Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc
• Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico (Spain)
• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
• British Library Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
• British Library: Digital Access to Persian Manuscripts
• Cambridge Digital Library - Islamic Manuscripts
• Cambridge University Shahnama Project
• Database of Southeast Asian Islamic Manuscripts  (Islamic University Jakarta)
• Fihrist Oxford and Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Catalogue Online
• Fulfulde ajami manuscripts of Nigerian Jihad poetry by Usman dan Fodio (1754-1817) and contemporaries - (British Library)
• Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
• Harvard University Islamic Heritage Project (IHP) Manuscripts
• Heidelberg University Library
• Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
• Indiana University Manuscripts
• Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
• İstanbul Araştırması Enstitütüsü = Istanbul Research Institute
• Jerusalem -  Manuscripts in the Libraries of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem
• King Saud University - Makhtota Manuscripts Library
• Koç University Manuscript Collection (Turkey)
• Kopenhagen, Königliche Bibliothek
• Leipzig University Library - Islamic Manuscripts
• Library of Congress Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
• Manuscripta Islamica Rossica (Russian repositories and libraries)
• Manuscript@CISC
• Manuscripts of the Muslim World (Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library ; Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections ; Philadelphia Museum of Art ; University of Pennsylvania Libraries)
• al-Maktaba al-markaziyya lil-makhṭūṭāt al-islāmiyya (catalogue with some exemplifying images only)
• The Minassian Collection of Qur'anic Manuscripts
• Mount Sinai - Manuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai 
• Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ)
• National Library of the Czech Republic - Arabic Manuscripts / Persian Manuscripts
• National Library of Republic of Bulgaria - Arabic and Persian Manuscripts
• Omani Ministry of Heritage and Culture
• Oxford University - manuscript of Book of Curiosities
• PHAIDRA - Digital repository of University of Belgrade
  
• Princeton University Islamic Manuscripts Collection
• Qatar Digital Library
• The Open Treasury for Islamic Manuscript
• Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum's Arts of Book and Calligraphy Collection
• Saxon State and University Library, Dresden (SLUB)  
• UCLA - Caro Minasian Collection of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts
• University of Birmingham Mingana Collection
• University of Bratislava Library, Bašagić Collection
• University of Edinburgh Library - Oriental Manuscript Collection
• University of Freiburg (Germany) - Oriental Manuscript Resource (OMAR)
• University of Melbourne - Middle Eastern Manuscripts
• University of Michigan Islamic Manuscripts
• University of Pennsylvania Manuscripts
• University of Tokyo - Institute of Oriental Culture (Daiber Collection)
• University of Utah Digital Manuscripts
• Virtual Library of the Mediterranean Sea
• The Walters Art Museum - Digital Walters
• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore - Islamic Manuscripts
• Waqfiyyat ash-Shaykh 'Alî b. Abdallâh b. Qâsim Âl Thânî
• Wellcome Library (London) Arabic Manuscripts Collection
• West African Arabic Manuscript Database
• World Digital Library, Middle East and North Africa manuscripts
• Yale-SOAS Islamic Manuscript Gallery
• Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative

• See also:
  • Archivalia list at: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/11445658/
  • Islamic Manuscripts Studies : Research Guide by Evyn Kropf (University of Michigan)
  • Islamic manuscripts site moderated by Jan Just Witkam, Emeritus-Professor of Paleography and Codicology of the Islamic world in Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Resources for the History of Islamic Books by Dagmar A. Riedel (Columbia University)
  • World survey of Islamic manuscripts  - Open Access database from Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation based on the printed work.