In volume 5.3 of the Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Xylographs etc. in Danish Collections (COMDC) The Royal Library publishes the third volume of a catalogue of its Arabic collection, analysed and described by Dr Irmeli Perho.

Volume 5.3 re-catalogues the old collection of 309 Arabic manuscripts earlier described in Latin in Codices Orientales Bibliothecae Regiae Hafniensis : enumerati et descripti, Pars II: Codices Hebraici et Arabici, Hafniae 1851. In addition to this group of manuscripts, 48 recently acquired Additamenta are described, and with this volume the catalogue of our Arabic manuscripts is complete as of May 2006.

Concise description of the physical appearance and contents of the documents being its primary function, the COMDC also endeavours to provide as much additional information as can be gathered from the manuscripts, aspiring to serve as reference work in a wider sense, and photographically reproducing the first and last pages of the manuscripts described, as well as additional pages of particular interest.