Monday, May 18, 2020

Access Rare and Beautiful “Manuscripts of the Muslim World” via UPenn’s Digital Library

Access Rare and Beautiful “Manuscripts of the Muslim World” via UPenn’s Digital Library

 

This project offers over 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings that are “mostly unresearched.

All materials on OPenn are in the public domain or released under Creative Commons licenses as Free Cultural Works.

The MMW Project characterizes these materials as “mostly unresearched,” perhaps encouraging a curious army of sequestered armchair historians to dig into this wealth more than 500 manuscripts and 827 paintings from the Islamicate world broadly construed.



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