The study of pre-modern Islamic manuscripts written in Arabic, Persian or Turkic languages has always been carried out following a West-East-West axis that understands circulation of knowledge and      manuscript production as emanating from the “Arab World”, reaching Central Asia after the Arab conquest and then returning to the Western parts of the Islamic World, thus operating with a classical conception of the “Islamicate World”. Far less attention has been paid to the circulation of people, manuscripts and ideas in the North-South-North corridor of Central Eurasia that connects Central Asia with Northern India crossing Eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, the modern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and the Gulf of Bengal. This line of research is designed to study aspects of production, circulation and consumption of manuscripts in this vast region from a multi-disciplinary perspective that brings scholars specialising in Central Asian, Nepalese and Northern Indian manuscript studies to work together in comparing and contrasting ‘scribal habits’ across this corridor. The aim is to propose a new geographical orientation of research in Eurasian Studies while documenting cultural cross pollination in this region. The aim is to shed light on borrowing and exchanges in the understanding of book culture, by expanding the sphere of consideration to the hitherto frequently disregarded cultural heritage and savoir faire of societies that inhabited these regions before the arrival of Islam.