Cataloging is complete for 243 manuscripts from the Franciscan Library (Franjevačke Knjižnica, HMML project code FPHA) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is just one of several Franciscan repositories whose collections HMML has digitized across the country. The collection also includes hundreds of archival and legal documents from the Ottoman and post-Ottoman era; digitization and cataloging is ongoing for these materials.

The manuscript collection consists of Islamic materials, primarily in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, with some in Persian and seven manuscripts in vernacular Bosnian. The Bosnian items include 19th-century poems by Murad-beg Čengić (d. 1871) and Muhamed Rušdi (1825-1905) along with a 17th-century poem against smoking by Kâimî Hasan Efendi (d. 1690/1), a relatively early example of Bosnian literature (FPHA 00227). In Persian, the collection includes some important lexicographical works as well as Fevzi Mostarac's (d. ca. 1747) Bulbulistān, the only major extant work composed in Persian by a Bosnian author (FPHA 00086). Dated objects in the collection range from an Arabic manuscript on law and logic, copied in Ankara in 1387 CE (FPHA 00117), to an Arabic legal text copied in 1873 (FPHA 00127). All manuscripts in the collection are searchable in the database by including "R" in the Shelfmark field (R is for rukopis, which means manuscript); archival materials use "AT" instead.  View now