1. Abridged history of Arab dynasties.

Creator:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund

Date:

between 1650 and 1699?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

29 long lines, compactly written; text block is frame-ruled; poetry is indented on both sides; no colophon.

2. Alchemical compendium.

Creator:

Ḥusaynī, Ibrāhīm, active 15th century

Date:

A.H. 901-904 (1496-1499)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Herat, Afghanistan

Extent:

Written in 15-24 long lines.

3. Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.

Creator:

Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286

Date:

between 1550? and 1664

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

25 long lines with border-rules.

4. Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.

Creator:

Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286

Date:

between 1550? and 1664

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

25 long lines with border-rules.

5. Astrological and magical treatises.

Creator:

Abū Maʻshar, -886

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 27 lines per page in red and black ink; text area border-ruled in black ink with double bounding lines. Pages 2-6 in double columns (56 mm. in width) separated by a single vertical rule in black ink. Numerous tables and diagrams.

6. Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān.

Creator:

Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282
Annenberg Research Institute

Date:

between 1400 and 1599?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 21 long lines.

7. Bishārat Lūqā.

Date:

between 1800 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in 11-12 long lines; frame-ruled.

8. Book on the configuration of the orb.

Creator:

Dunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century

Date:

13--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Seville?, Spain

Extent:

Written in 21 long lines.

9. Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.

Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Date:

A.H. 989 (1581)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Persia?

Extent:

Written in 31 long lines, with names of medicines and ailments written in the margins.

10. Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Date:

A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 29 long lines.

11. Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence

Date:

14--

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Syria?

Extent:

Written in 13 long lines.

12. Collection of prayers and charms.

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

13. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalawāt ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465

Date:

A.H. 1204 (1789)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

9 long lines, border-ruled.

14. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

A.H. 1078 (1667)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

15. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?

Date:

A.H. 1259 (1878)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

16. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

A.H. 1182 (1768)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines.

17. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt... etc..

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
ʻAbd al-Salām bin Mashīsh, 1163?-1225
Abū Madyan, -1197 or 1198
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
ʻAbd al-Salām bin Mashīsh, 1163?-1225
Abū Madyan, -1197 or 1198
Barzanjī, Jaʻfar ibn Ḥasan, -1763 or 1764
Dasūqī, Ibrāhīm, 1255-1296
Dimyāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Aybak, -1348
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
Sammān, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, 1718-1775
Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258

Date:

A.H. 1123?-1225 (1711?-1810)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines border-ruled with 12-13 marginal lines at angles mostly along the outside long edge.

18. Devotional book.

Date:

between 1830 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

9 long lines with border rules.

19. Devotional book.

Date:

between 1800 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

20. Dhikr baʻḍ mashāhīr ahl Fās fī al-qadīm

Creator:

Abū Zayd al-Fāsī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, 1630 or 1631-1684 or 1685
Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund

Date:

A.H. 1353 (1934)

Language:

Arabic

21. Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr).

Creator:

Ibn Luyūn al-Tujībī, Saʻd ibn Aḥmad, 1282 or 1283-1349 or 1350

Date:

13--?-14--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Spain?

Extent:

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.

22. Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ.

Creator:

Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad
Hāshimī, Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh. ǂt Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ
Anṣārī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, ǂe scribe

Date:

ca. 1400

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in 25 long lines.

23. Four Gospels.

Date:

1792

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in black and red ink. Includes title-headings, catchwords, and diacritics.

24. Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy.

Creator:

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim, active 1543

Date:

A.H. 950 (1543)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Cairo

Extent:

Written in 27 long lines; no catchwords.

25. Fragments from Books III-V of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb.

Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Date:

12--?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 40-41 long lines.

26. Gathering from Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis.

Creator:

Euclid

Date:

A.H. 502 (1108-1109)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt, Iraq, or Syria

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah with approximately 8 mm. between lines, a standard measurement for manuscripts written in Egypt.

27. Gospel of Mark.

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in primarily black ink (1 line in red on f. 86r) in 10-11 lines per page on coarse paper; text area frame-ruled in blind.

28. Hādhā kitāb irshād /

Creator:

ʻAbd al-Ḍayf Mūsá ibn Walī ibn Ḥasan
Samuel P. Orlando Fund

Date:

A.H. 1171 (1758)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey

Extent:

Written in 19 long lines (f. 1v-3v) and 16-17 long lines (f. 4r-8v); frame-ruled in red ink at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3r). Catch phrases, lower left recto.

29. Hādhā kitāb munyat al-muṣallī.

Date:

A.H. 1160 (1747)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

30. Hādhā majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf.

Creator:

Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1257
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?
Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1257
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Chiefly written in 13 long lines; some pages border and frame ruled. Replacement pages written in 12 long lines. Some marginalia.

31. Hādhā min Khawāṣs al-manāzil wa-hiya fī al-maghrib anwāʼ.

Date:

13--?-15--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

North Africa

Extent:

Written in 24-28 long lines; margins marked by folding or misṭarah.

32. Ibn Malak ʻalá al-Manār fī uṣūl al-fiqh.

Creator:

Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz

Date:

between 1500 and 1699?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 25 long lines.

33. Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis.

Creator:

Euclid

Date:

A.H. 502 (1108-1109)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt, Iraq, or Syria

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah with approximately 8 mm. between lines, a standard measurement for manuscripts written in Egypt.

34. Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah.

Creator:

Karajī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, -approximately 1016

Date:

A.H. 1084 (1674)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines.

35. Injīl Yūḥannā al-bashīr.

Date:

between 1800 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in 9 long lines.

36. Irshād al-sārī.

Creator:

Qasṭallānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518
Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, 810-870
Qasṭallānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518
Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, 810-870

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

North Africa?

Extent:

34 long lines; frame-ruled. Poetry set in two columns.

37. Itqān wa-al-aḥkām fī sharḥ Tuḥfat al-aḥkām

Creator:

Mayyārah, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1590 or 1591-1661 or 1662
Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund

Date:

A.H. 1103 (1692)

Language:

Arabic

38. Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn.

Creator:

Ghazzālī, 1058-1111

Date:

A.H. 1100 (1689)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 29 long lines.

39. Jihat al-waḥdah.

Creator:

Shirwānī, Muḥammad al-Amīn ibn Ṣadr al-Dīn, -1626 or 1627
Class of 1924 Book Fund

Date:

between 1650 and 1749?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Chiefly 16 long lines; some pages with 23 lines written diagonally.

40. Kalimāt ʻarabīyah ʻalá tartīb ḥurūf al-tahajjī.

Creator:

Akhtarī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad, -1560 or 1561

Date:

A.H. 956 (1549)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey

Extent:

17 long lines with additions in the margins added at angles.

41. Kanz al-daqāʼiq.

Creator:

Nasafī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, -1310

Date:

A.H. 1015 (1607)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines; border-ruled and frame ruled with misṭarah.

42. Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīḍat al-gharāʼib.

Creator:

Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457

Date:

between 1450 and 1550?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines (f. 1r-79v) and 17 long lines (f. 80r-267v).

43. Kitāb Alghāz fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah.

Date:

A.H. 720 (1320)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt

Extent:

Written in up to 29 long lines. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

44. Kitāb Badīʻ al-inshāʼ wa-al-ṣifāt fī al-mukātabāt wa-al-murāsalāt.

Creator:

Karmī, Marʻī ibn Yūsuf, -1623 or 1624

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 21 long lines.

45. Kitāb Bulghat al-ḥāfiẓ wa-balāghat al-lāfiẓ.

Creator:

Qanawī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, -after 1736 or 1737
Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, 641 or 642-728 or 729
Qanawī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, -after 1736 or 1737
Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, 641 or 642-728 or 729

Date:

between 1700 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

First work written in 22 long lines; second work written in 33 long, closely written lines copied at an angle across the page.

46. Kitāb Mīzān al-ḥikmah.

Creator:

Khāzinī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1121

Date:

1250?-1350?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines.

47. Kitāb Qiṣṣat Sayyidinā Yūsuf.

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines in black and red ink, with marginalia. Catchwords at the end of every leaf.

48. Kitāb Rawḍ al-rayāḥīn fī ḥikāyāt al-ṣāliḥīn

Creator:

Yāfiʻī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad, -1367

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

A.H. 804 (1402)

Extent:

Written in 33 lines per page in black and red ink, with poetry in two columns (35-45 mm. in width) and marginalia.

49. Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá.

Creator:

Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294

Date:

A.H. 1103 (1692)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Mawṣil

Extent:

Written in 23 long lines; ruled in lead.

50. Kitāb al-Adwār fī al-mūsīqá.

Creator:

Urmawī, ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1216-1294

Date:

between 1500 and 1599?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 28 long lines, with some diagrams arranged in 2 columns (for example, p. 9-12).