In the late 17th century, Antoine Galland (1646-1715), the world-famous orientalist, discoverer and translator of the Thousand and One Nights, saw an amazing manuscript of Mirajnameh (The Book of Miraj) at a bookstore and bought it from the bookseller for 25 Ottoman piasters. It is decorated with unique miniatures made with the use of gold, depicting the Prophet soaring on the back of mare Burak into the sky. The text of the manuscript is of great interest to linguists. Written in Arabic script in the Chagatai language, it is highly important for our knowledge of Turkic literature. Currently, the manuscript is kept in a special department at the National Library of France. Another masterpiece kept this library is a beautiful copy of the astronomical treatise Suwar al-Kawakib as-Sabita (The Images of Fixed Stars) by Al Sufi with 74 color drawings, made for the personal library of Ulugbek, probably in Samarkand in 1430-1440, during the construction of the latter's famous observatory. Each of the drawings is an image of a particular constellation. In one of them, Ulugbek himself is depicted as Cepheus, a constellation named after the mythological king of Ethiopia. These and other handwritten rarities representing the manuscript heritage of Uzbekistan and stored in the National Library of France are presented in this volume.