Andalusian Digital Archive الأرشيف الأندلسي الرقمي

Manuscripts of al-Andalus & the Maghrib

Andalusian
Digital Archive

الأرشيف الأندلسي الرقمي

A public reading room for the written heritage of al-Andalus — read page by page in a deep-zoom viewer, with line-by-line transcription where the text has been recovered.

Open access · public domain · non-profit

An open library for a scattered inheritance

The Andalusian Digital Archive is a non-profit, open-source effort to gather the written heritage of al-Andalus and the Maghrib — manuscripts and archival documents dispersed across the libraries and state archives of the world — into a single, freely searchable reading room.

For centuries these works have lain apart: a Qur'an in Munich, a legal compendium in the Escorial, Morisco trial papers in Simancas, Saharan codices in Timbuktu. Described to a common standard, transcribed line by line and searchable as one corpus, they cease to be isolated objects and become a connected field — letting a scholar follow a hand, a text or an idea across collections never meant to be read side by side.

Every work gathered here is in the public domain. Read it, cite it, download it, build upon it — and share and redistribute it freely.

1,121Manuscripts
222,812Folios digitized
4,274Pages transcribed
15Subjects

The library by theme

Explore by subject

Fifteen fields of Andalusi learning — from law and medicine to the clandestine Aljamiado of the Moriscos. Choose a thread and follow it through the archive.

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