Between 1950 and 1954 Enrico Cerulli was the Italian ambassador to Iran and collected a number of Persian manuscripts. These 1055 manuscripts, of which 13 are, in part or in full, in Turkish, form this collection. It has a particular focus on Shiʿite passion plays (taʿzias), which were unappreciated at the time he formed the collection. 2. Of those 1055 signatures, 12 have been digitized
