Loose leaf copy of portions of a book of prayers divided by day. This copy contains parts of prayers said on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and is in catchword order, though leaves are missing. Some leaves have been replaced in a different hand, on modern, lined paper (text is written perpendicular to the lines).
Dual-page illuminated copy of al-Fātiḥah, the first sūrah of the Qurʼān. The leaves are both blank on the verso, are written on thin paper and have been remounted onto machine-made paper.
Illuminated and illustrated copy of Niẓāmī's collection of 5 poetic works; four dual-page illuminations, many illuminated headers and 24 full-page illustrations including two sets of scenes covering the full page-opening (f. 2v-3r, 370v-371r).
Large format, illuminated copy of prayers from Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan and the Duʻāʼ al-Sayfī, attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. The copy is dedicated to Qāʼit Bāy, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1496). The first page of text gives the transmitter as Muḥammad ibn Zayn al-ʻArab Sharafshāh al-Ḥusaynī (p. [4]).
Collection of Jāmī's poems and prose writings. A table of contents has been written in (f. 1r) and some titles have been added by a later hand in black ink on the gold cartouches in the headpieces before each new work.
Loose leaf copy of a small portion of the Qurʼān, 9 leaves, verses 87-185 of al-Baqarah (2:87-185) along with 4 leaves containing portions of the first Maqāmāh of al-Ḥarīrī.
Composite manuscript containing 8 works and pages of notations, written in at least three hands. The majority of the works are related to Ḥadīth and other anecdotes related to Muḥammad and other prophets. Some of the paper is machine made; the flyleaves and blank pages have also been covered in notes; some pages have been removed.
Manuscript containing three texts, copied in three different hands. The first work is a commentary on the poem known as al-Burdah by al-Būṣīrī, the second is a response by al-Suyūṭī to questions about the Ḥadīth and the third is a set of poems and Ḥadīth excerpts.
In the introduction, the author says that this is a retelling of the conquest of Syria and Iraq (Futūḥ al-Shām wa-al-ʻIrāq). The author states that 'the people of this time of ours' (ahl zamāninā hādhā) like reading conquest literature, so he has borrowed from the futūḥ works of both Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭalamankī [al-Maʻāfirī] and Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Wāqidī and produced his own volume.
Illuminated copy of the Qurʼān with four sets of dual-page illuminated openings, decorated sūrah headings and marginal medallions; two notes in Persian and a final prayer added.
Collection of doxologies and prayers, ascribed to ʻAlī or to his grandson Zayn al-ʻĀbidin ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn with Persian interlinear translation and marginal notes; a leaf has been cut out between f. 25 and 26.
Composite manuscript containing 4 works copied by different scribes on inheritance law, logic and mathematics. The first two works, which make up the bulk of the codex, are by al-Rasmūkī. The second is a commentary on a poem by Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Simlālī (died 1520) for which al-Rasmūkī had written a continuation; the commentary is on both parts of the poem.
