{"id":14153,"date":"2020-12-03T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t-creative.com\/asiatic\/?page_id=14153"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:54:44","slug":"manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/manuscripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1605789733308{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;14904&#8243; img_size=&#8221;1200&#215;360&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1758377605320{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Manuscripts<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Society\u2019s collection includes around 2,000 manuscripts, originating from all over Asia. Our oldest manuscripts are almost a thousand years old. Many of our manuscripts were donated by members of the Society during the nineteenth century, having been <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.augutech.com\/hosted-predictive-dialer.html\"><span style=\"color: #464637;\">purchased<\/span><\/a> or commissioned in different parts of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Most of our manuscripts have been catalogued and can be searched on our Library catalogue <a href=\"https:\/\/ras.koha-ptfs.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. However, some collections are yet to be catalogued or are only partially catalogued. Please contact us if you would like help discovering any of our manuscript treasures.<\/p>\n<p>Our manuscripts in Arabic script can be searched on the Fihrist catalogue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fihrist.org.uk\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three of our finest Persian-language manuscripts are on long-term loan at Cambridge University Library. They are the <em>Shahnamah of Muhammad Juki<\/em> (RAS Persian 239), the <em>Kitab-i Mathnawiyyat-i Zafar Khan<\/em> (RAS MS 310), and the <em>Gulistan of the poet Sa\u2019di<\/em> (RAS MS 258). They are available online in our Digital Library <a href=\"https:\/\/royalasiaticcollections.org\/persian-manuscripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and alsoon the <a href=\"https:\/\/cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk\/collections\/ras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge Digital Library Website<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;15387&#8243; img_size=&#8221;450&#215;500&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#CCCCCC&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Our major manuscript collections include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manuscripts in Arabic script (Persian, Arabic, and Turkish collections)<\/li>\n<li>Tod collection of Indian manuscripts<\/li>\n<li>Hodgson collection of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts<\/li>\n<li>Malay manuscripts (Raffles and Maxwell collections)<\/li>\n<li>Javanese manuscripts (Raffles collection)<\/li>\n<li>Whish collection of South Indian manuscripts<\/li>\n<li>Burmese and Pali manuscripts collection<\/li>\n<li>Thai manuscripts collection<\/li>\n<li>Tibetan manuscripts collection<\/li>\n<li>Chinese manuscripts collection<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/the-ottoman-manuscript-collection\/\">Ottoman manuscript collection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also have manuscripts in Urdu, Syriac, Armenian, Bugis, Lao, and other languages. Please contact the Librarian for more information.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17090&#8243; img_size=&#8221;1000&#215;500&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1605789733308{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;14904&#8243; img_size=&#8221;1200&#215;360&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1758377605320{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Manuscripts [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Society\u2019s collection includes around 2,000 manuscripts, originating from all over Asia. Our oldest manuscripts are almost a thousand years old. 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