The Western Collection involves samples of European manuscripts, important for their texts, ornamentation (although not all are illuminated), and bindings. Example of separate collections of Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Slavonic and Syriac manuscripts.

The Qur'an Collection includes more than 260 Qur'ans and Qur'an fragments and is one of the most important collections of Qur'ans outside the Middle East. The gem of the collection - and indeed one of the most treasured objects of the entire library - is the splendid Qur'an copied in Baghdad in the year 1001 […]

The Persian Collection of the Islamic manuscripts consists mainly of copies of the works of the great Persian poets: Firdawsi, Nizami, Sa'di, Hafiz and Jami, to name but a few. Highlights of the approximately 330 manuscripts that make up the collection include illustrated folios from the so-called Great Mongol (Demotte) Shahnama, or Book of Kings, […]