The Oriental Collection
The Oriental collections in The Royal Library of Denmark comprise manuscripts, block prints, and printed books in languages of Asia and North Africa. A total of 5.000 items from the 10th century forward. The collections are acquired for research in language, religion, and culture in its widest sense, including history.
Digital editions from the Oriental Collections were chosen for their beauty, rarity, calligraphy, bindings etc.
These materials are made available online and are subdivided into the following groups:
Digitized Arabic materials
- Qur’an and other religious texts
- Shafi’i fiqh
- Shi’a works
- Linguistics
- Literature
- History
- Medicine and natural science
- Magic
- Printed books: literature
الاصول – Geometry
تصوير صور الكواكب – Astronomy
Digitized Persian materials
- Manuscripts
- Avesta and Pahlavi
- Printed books
Rivayat – Ceremonial rites
Digitization of Urdu manuscripts
- Narrative work in rhyming couplets
- Qissai Benazir aur Badremunir or Sihr al-bayan by Mīr Ghūlam Hasan Dihlī [1727-1786 CE] (Copy from 1829 with illustrations)
Narrative work in rhyming couplets قصه بى نظير و بدر منير
Japanese manuscripts
Tibetan manuscripts
Mongolian manuscripts
Indian manuscripts
Sinhalese manuscripts
Oriental visual art
Availability
The manuscripts can be made available at Reading Room West, after previous arrangement (e-mail: kontaktbiblioteket@kb.dk)
Copies, photographs etc.
Requests for slides, scans and other types of reproductions should be directed to The Photographic Studio. Permission to reproduce is normally given, provided that it is for a non-commercial purpose and The Royal Library is duly credited.