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    • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: 221
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    • other: 255
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    • fascicle: 49
    • Unbound unit: 2454
    • Poti: 4
    • Pecha: 64
    • Sekundärform: 3430
    • Mikrorollfilm: 3420
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    • Digitalisat: 1

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    • purple: 10
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    • paper: 71054
    • parchment: 1807
    • papyrus: 23
    • palm leaf: 2498
    • bamboo: 19
    • bark: 1375
    • metal: 6
    • bone/ivory: 2
    • wood: 392
    • cloth: 10
    • leather: 36
    • stone: 5

    Subject matter (92 categories)

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    • poetics: 217
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    • East Asia: 3624
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    • Southeast Asia: 5932
    • Other: 17
    • Tibet: 4094
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    • black: 26306
    • brown: 532
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    • blue: 458
    • gold: 742
    • silver: 35
    • green: 433
    • yellow: 221
    • orange: 26
    • magenta: 19
    • purple: 46
    • grey: 35
    • white: 5

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    • Armenian script: 216
    • Hebrew script: 917
    • Syriac script: 830
    • Uigur script: 3
    • unidentified: 49419
    • Arabic script → Naskh: 15489
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    • Arabic script → Muḥaqqaq: 24
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    • Arabic script → Shikastah: 406
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    • Arabic script → Ruqʽah: 117
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    • Arabic script → Kūfī: 1052
    • Arabic script → Sūdānī: 1
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    • Uigur script → Cursive script: 1
    • Tibetan script: 179
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    • Tibetan script → Manuscript → dbu can: 59
    • Tibetan script → Manuscript → dbu med: 79
    • Syriac script → East Syriac: 331
    • Arabic script → eastern Kūfī (New Style): 1
    • Ethiopian script: 14
    • Ethiopian script → Gwelḥ (17th-18th c.): 3
    • Ethiopian script → Raqiq (17th-19th c.): 1
    • Ethiopian script → Bulky and cursive script (19th-20th c.): 2

    Type of entry (9 categories)

    • collective manuscript: 5000
    • text from a collective manuscript: 16404
    • manuscript: 78215
    • loose leaf(s): 106
    • other: 145
    • print convolute: 25
    • print of convolute: 97
    • print: 4339
    • unidentified: 7

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    Manuscripts

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    Title

    Author

    Record type

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    Date

    Record type

      Language

      • Arabic

      Date

      • copy: 1. Rağab 938 / 08.02.1532

      Title

      Author

      • Muṣṭafá ibn Fakhr al-Ḥusaynī

      Record type

        Language

        • Persian

        Date

        • copy: around 1150 / 1737

        Record type

          Language

          • Arabic

          Date

          • copy: no date

          Title

          Author

          • ʿĪsá ibn Luṭf Allāh

          Record type

            Language

            • Arabic

            Date

            • copy: no date

            Author

            • Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Bahrān al-Baṣrī al-Yamanī al-Ṣaʿdī

            Record type

              Language

              • Arabic

              Date

              • copy: around 1190 / 1776

              Record type

                Language

                • Arabic

                Date

                • copy: around 1000 / 1591

                Record type

                  Language

                  • Arabic

                  Date

                  • copy: 977 / 1569-1570

                  Record type

                    Language

                    • Arabic

                    Date

                    • copy: around 1000 / 1591

                    Record type

                      Language

                      • Arabic

                      Date

                      • copy: 1277 / 1860

                      Record type

                        Language

                        • Arabic

                        Date

                        • copy: no date

                        Author

                        • Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn Bahrān al-Tamīmī al-Baṣrī

                        Record type

                          Language

                          • Arabic

                          Date

                          • copy: around 1200 / 1785

                          Author

                          • ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq (presumable author)

                          Record type

                            Language

                            • Arabic

                            Date

                            • copy: 1233 / 1818

                            Author

                            • Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Miswarī

                            Record type

                              Language

                              • Arabic

                              Date

                              • copy: 1145 / 1732-1733

                              Author

                              • Abū Muḥammad ibn Ṣārim al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Hādī ibn Ibrāhīm

                              Record type

                                Language

                                • Arabic

                                Date

                                • copy: 1069 / 1659-1660

                                Author

                                • Al-Taʿlīq ʿalá sharḥ al-Taḥrīr

                                Record type

                                • manuscript

                                Language

                                • Arabic

                                Date

                                • copy: 750 / 1349

                                Author

                                • ʿIzz al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥasan

                                Record type

                                  Language

                                  • Arabic

                                  Date

                                  • copy: around 1100 / 1688