Special Collections- Vatican Film Library : Non-Western MSS

Written in India, in Arabic with commentary in Persian.

Includes: Sura 9, al Tawba (Repentence), verses 1-6; Sura 54, al-Qamar (The Moon), verses 35-55; Sura 55, Ar-Rahman (Most Gracious), verses 1-5; Sura 34, Saba (Sheba), verses 49-54; Sura 35, al-Fatir (The Creator), verses 1-2.

Pictured here: MS 024, fol. c, verso.

Written in Iran, in Arabic.

Includes: Sura 63, al-Munāfiqūn (The Hypocrites), verses 8-11; Sura 64, at-Tagabun (Loss and Gain); Sura 65, at-Talaq (The Divorce); Sura 66 at-Tahrim (The Prohibition); Sura 67, al-Mulk (The Kingdom); Sura 68, al-Qalam (The Pen); Sura 69, al-Haqqa (The Sure Calamity); Sura 70, al-Ma'arij (The Ways of Ascent); Sura 71, Nuh (Nuh); Sura 72, al-Jinn (The Jinn); Sura 73, al-Muzzammil (The Wrapped Up), verses 1-11.

Pictured here: MS 025, fol. a, recto.

Written in Egypt, in Arabic.

Pictured here: MS 037, fol. a, recto

Written in Iran, in Persian.

Pictured here: MS 038, fol. a, verso.

Written in Egypt, in Arabic.

Includes: Sura 46, al-Ahqāf (The wind-curved sandhills), verses 26-35, incomplete.

Pictured here: MS 039, fol. a, recto.

Written in Kandahār, Afghanistan, in Persian.

Pictured here: MS 040, fol. a, recto.

Written probably in Nigeria, in Arabic.

Includes: Sura 29, al-ʻAnkabūt (The Spider), incomplete.

Pictured here: MS 041, fol. a, verso.

Written in Turkey, in Arabic.

Pictured here: MS 042, fol. a, recto.

Written in Iran, in Persian.

Pictured here: MS 054, fol. a, recto.

Written in Syria in Nestorian script.

Written in India in Devanagari script.

The text is from the Bhagavadgītā, Chapter 15, "The yoga of the Supreme Person," verses 12 to 16.

Written in Sri Lanka in Tamil

Written on taliput leaf in Burma in the 18th century.

Written in Indonesia in Javanese. The text is from the History of Rama

Written in Japan in Kanbun script the 15th century.

Written in Japan in the Oie or court script.

Written in Armenia in Notrgir script; leaf from a manuscript dated 1741