HOLY CITY OF MASHHAD, Iran: Sweden’s Uppsala University Library recently donated a series of microfilms containing priceless manuscripts to the Astan-e Qods Razavi Library.

The microfilms have been prepared by the Manuscripts Department of the Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

The manuscripts include “Al-Hiyal al-Ruhaniyah” by Abu Nasr Farabi, “Al-Hikmah al-Arudiyah” by Avicenna, “Sirr al-Khaliqah” by Bulinus al-Hakim, “Al-Gauharatain al-Atiqatain” by Ahmad al-Hamdani, and “Mizan al-Tabib” by Ibn al-Baytar.

These works deal with the topics of medicine, literature, philosophy and logic.

According to the Public Relations Office of Astan-e Qods Library, the work “Sirr al-Khaliqah” is the oldest manuscript to be found in the Uppsala Library.

The Uppsala University Library was founded in 1620. Today, it is the largest and oldest University Library in Sweden with five million books and 12000 electronic journals.

Astan-e Qods Razavi Library is home to 78,000 manuscripts, in addition to a collection of 3000 microfilms and 4000 digital copies of manuscripts collected from the world’s great libraries.