Collection Statistics

12362Works
A manuscript may contain various individual works.
8500Classmarks
Every bound or unbound manuscript has an individual class-mark but may contain more than one work.
5417People
All types of personal names are listed here, be it an author , editor , collector or subject of a work (if given).
11Libraries
Here you find the libraries, which hold the listed manuscripts/works.

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This catalogue provides a searchable interface to basic manuscript descriptions from some of the major manuscript collections in the UK. With the continuing contribution of manuscript records from UK libraries, Fihrist aims to become a union catalogue for manuscripts in Arabic script. More info.

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