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• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

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• Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The K. R. Cama Memorial Volume: Essays on Iranian Subjects Written by Various Scholars in Honour of Mr. Kharshedji Rustamji Cama, on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (in English and various Iranian languages; Mumbai: Fort Printing Press, 1900), ed. by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Rajeev Kinra (multiple formats at Luminos)

• Persian Literature (2-volume collection), by Firdawsī, Omar Khayyam, Hafiz, and Sa'di, ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil, trans. by James Atkinson, Herman Bicknell, Edward FitzGerald, and James Ross
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Oriental Tales (spine title of set of 15 volumes, each with its own title page; London: Athenaeum, 18984-1897), ed. by John Payne, contrib. by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Thomas-Simon Gueullette, and Leonard C. Smithers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Epic of Kings (retellings of portions of Firdawsi's Shah Nameh), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Episodes From the Shah Nameh: or, Annals of the Persian Kings (in English and Pahlavi; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by Firdawsī, ed. by Stephen Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shah Nameh: Stories Retold from Firdusi (New York: E.C. Hill, 1906), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī and Julius Mohl (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rose Garden of Persia (London: Gibbings, 1899), ed. by Louisa Stuart Costello, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Rubaiyat, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by E. H. Whinfield (HTML at Fordham)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (text from the first edition of 1859; illustrations from various editions), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald, illust. by Frank Brangwyn, René Bull, Willy Pogány, and Maurice Greiffenhagen (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (first edition), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (fourth edition, 1879), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Virginia)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in English and Danish, with notes), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML in Denmark)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (from multiple editions), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald, illust. by Blanche McManus (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (multiple editions side-by-side), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (frame-dependent HTML at therubayiat.com)

• Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Edmonton: AU Press, c2015), ed. by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Firdosi's Königsbuch (Schahname) (3 volumes, in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1890-1895), by Firdawsī, ed. by Edmund Alfred Bayer, trans. by Friedrich Rückert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Secrets of the Self (London: Macmillan and Co. 1920), by Muhammad Iqbal, trans. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam (Spanish translation by Castellot of FitzGerald's English version; c1918), by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald and José Castellot, contrib. by José Juan Tablada (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Adventures of Hatim Taï: A Romance (London: Printed for the Oriental translation fund, 1830), trans. by Duncan Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Catalogus Codicum Philologicorum Latinorum, Bibliothecae Palatinae Vindobonensis (in Latin; Vienna: F. Beck, 1836), ed. by Stephan Endlicher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on the Two Jesuit Manuscripts Belonging to the Estate of the Late Hon. John Neilson, of Quebec, Canada (1887), by Jerome Sasseville and John Gilmary Shea, ed. by G. M. Fairchild (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Books, Manuscripts and Bindings Remarkable for Their Rarity, Beauty and Interest (catalog #456; London: Maggs Bros., 1924), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen L. Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Manuscripts and Documents: Their Deterioration and Restoration (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, c1955), by W. J. Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to Documentary Editing (online 3rd edition, ca. 2008), by Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue (at gde.upress.virginia.edu)

• Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen L. Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Notes on the Two Jesuit Manuscripts Belonging to the Estate of the Late Hon. John Neilson, of Quebec, Canada (1887), by Jerome Sasseville and John Gilmary Shea, ed. by G. M. Fairchild (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• Calendar of the Major Jacob Rink Snyder Collection of the Society of California Pioneers (San Francisco: Northern California Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), by Northern California Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Translation and Publication of the Manuscript Dutch Records of New Netherland, With an Account of Previous Attempts at Translation (Education Department Bulletin #462, NY State Library bibliography #46; Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910), by Arnold J. F. Van Laer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays From the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria: From the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Right Hon. Earl Cowper, K.G. (2 volumes in Latin with English notes; London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897), ed. by Stuart A. Moore
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Cartulaire des Abbayes de Saint-Pierre de la Couture et de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (cartulary in Latin, with introduction and notes in French; Le Mans: Typ. E. Monnoyer, 1881), ed. by Congrégation de France (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books, Manuscripts and Bindings Remarkable for Their Rarity, Beauty and Interest (catalog #456; London: Maggs Bros., 1924), by Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)

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