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. Ajbīyah. al-Salām la-ki yā Maryam. Creator: Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental ManuscriptsCoptic Church Date: between 1650 and 1750? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt ; Extent: 10 long lines for Arabic text; 12 long lines for Coptic.
3. Al-juzʼ al-awwal min kitāb Mashāriq al-anwār al-Qudsīyah fī bayān al-ʻuhūd al-Muḥammadīyah al-shahīr bi-al-ʻUhūd al-kubrá. Creator: Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College) Date: 1852 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Syria? Extent: 17 long lines
4. Al-maqāl al-awwal min fuṣūl Abūqrāṭ al-ḥakim Creator: Hippocrates. Language: Arabic Geographic region: Orient Extent: Lines: 13 (verso).19 X 14 cm
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
9. Arabic inscription Language: Arabic Geographic region: Orient Extent: Lines: recto 12, verso 5; ruling method: scattered, uneven lines.
10. Arabic inscription Language: Arabic Geographic region: Orient Extent: Columns: 2,; lines: 5-7 per column; ruling method: vertical fold, pen.17.8 X 15.2 cm
11. Arabic inscription Language: Arabic Geographic region: Orient Extent: Columns: 2,; lines: 5-7 per column17.8 X 15.2 cm
13. Arabic poem with painting Date: 18--? Language: Arabic Extent: 16 lines in two columns with a third outside marginal column of 11 angled lines; marginalia.
14. Arabic-Syriac glossary. Creator: J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College) Date: 18--? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Lebanon? Extent: 19-22 lines in three columns.
15. 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.
16. Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān. Creator: Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282Annenberg Research Institute Date: between 1400 and 1599? Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 21 long lines.
17. Badr al-ṭāliʻ fī ḥall Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ Creator: Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1327-1370 Date: between 1400 and 1599? Language: Arabic Extent: 17 lines per page; catchwords on versos, lower left.
18. Bishārat Lūqā. Date: between 1800 and 1899? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt? Extent: Written in 11-12 long lines; frame-ruled.
19. 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.
20. 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.