Persian poetry – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Secrets of the Erpenius copy of the Killing Story of Husain in Karbala

Posted on 8 February 2023 by Majid Daneshgar

This post is by Munby Fellow Dr Majid Daneshgar, whose project for 2022/23 is entitled Revisiting Malay Islamic Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Global […]

Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, South Asian, Special Collections

An epic from a tiger’s library

Posted on 7 December 2020 by Catherine Ansorge

Among the many beautiful and fascinating manuscripts in the Library’s Islamic collection is one particularly magnificent copy of the famous Persian epic poem, the Shāhnāma or […]

Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern