Abbreviated Names of Manuscript Collections
| Ashmolean | The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford |
| Aga Khan | Aga Khan Museum, Toronto |
| Berlin | Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), Berlin |
| BnF | The Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris |
| BL | British Library, London |
| BM | British Museum, London |
| Bodleian | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| Brooklyn | Brooklyn Museum, New York |
| Cairo | The Egyptian National Library and Archives (Dar al-Kutub), Cairo |
| CAM | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati |
| CB | The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin |
| Cleveland | The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland |
| Congress | Library of Congress (African, Middle East and Asian Prayer Materials), Washington, D.C. |
| Cushing-Whitney | Harvey Cushing and John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University New Haven |
| David | The David Collection, Copenhagen |
| Edinburgh | Edinburgh University Library Special Collections, Edinburgh |
| Freer | The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| Gulbenkian | Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon |
| Gulistan | Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran |
| Harvard | Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge |
| Hermitage | State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
| Houghton | Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| Istanbul | Archaeology Museum Library, Istanbul |
| Iran | National Museum of Iran, Tehran |
| JHU | The Johns Hopkins University Library in Baltimore, Maryland |
| John Rylands | John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester Library, Manchester |
| Jerusalem | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
| Khalili | The Khalili Collections, UK |
| Kuwait | The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait |
| KVVAK | The Royal Asian Art Society in the Netherlands, Amsterdam |
| Louvre | Louvre Museum, Paris |
| MAH | The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva |
| Majlis | Majlis Library, Museum and Documentation Center, Tehran |
| Malek | Malek National Library & Museum, Tehran |
| MET | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| MFA | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| MIA | Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota |
| Moscow | Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow |
| Morgan | Morgan Library & Museum, New York |
| NYPL | The New York Public Library, New York |
| NLR | National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg |
| Portland | Portland Art Museum, Portland |
| Princeton | Princeton University Library, Princeton |
| Reza Abbasi | Reza Abbasi Museum, Tehran |
| RM | The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| ROM | Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
| SDMA | The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego |
| Süleymaniye | Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul |
| TSMK | Topkapı Palace Museum Library, Istanbul |
| UMMA | The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor |
| Uppsala | Uppsala University Library, Uppsala |
| V&A | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
| Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, The Austrian National Library, Vienna |
| Volkenkunde | Museum Volkenkunde (The Wereldmuseum Leiden), Leiden |
| Walters | The Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore |
| WCMA | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown |
| Wereldmuseum | The Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam |