Abbreviations
| BK |
Beyazıt Kütüphanesi |
| BnF |
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris |
| CEDOPAL |
CEntre de DOcumentation de PApyrologie Littéraire, Liège Université |
| COMSt |
Comparative Oriental Manuscripts Studies |
| DaM |
Dār al-Makhṭūṭāt, Sanaa |
| DH |
Digital Humanities |
| DKM |
Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, Cairo |
| EI2 |
The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition, ed. C.E. Bosworth et al. (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2007), 11 vols. |
| GAL |
Brockelmann, C., Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Leiden, 1937–42, 2 vols. and 3 vols. of supplement. |
| GAS |
Sezgin, F., Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums, Leiden and Frankfurt 1967–84, 17 vols. |
| GRAPHEM |
Grapheme based Retrieval and Analysis for PaleograpHic Expertise of Middle Age manuscripts |
| MS |
Manuscript |
| MSS |
Manuscripts |
| MZbAT |
Muʾassasat Zayd b. ʿAlī l-Thaqāfiyya, Sanaa |
| OCR |
Optical Character Recognition |
| PUL |
Princeton University Library |
| SHOE |
Standard Handwriting Objective Examination |
| SK |
Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi |
| Spr. |
Sprenger (a collection of Berlin Staatsbibliothek) |
| TEI |
Text Encoding Initiative |
| TSMK |
Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul |
| UbL |
Universiteitsbibliotheek, Leiden |
| We |
Wetzstein (a collection of Berlin Staatsbibliothek) |
| XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |
| YMDI |
Yemeni Manuscripts Digitization Initiative |