Manuscripts in Riqa Script 36 items

1. Binding from Poems (tarji'band)

Creator:: Iranian
Date:: 13th century AH/AD 19th century
Extent:: Dimensions: Folio H: 6 7/8 x W: 4 5/16 in. (17.5 x 11.0 cm)
Medium:: lacquer
Time period:: Qajar

2. Epistle on the Customs of the Naqshbandiyya Order

Creator:: Tāj al-Dīn ibn Zakariyya Mahdī Zamān al-Rūmī (d. AH 1050/AD 1640)
Date:: AH 1203/AD 1788-9
Language:: Arabic
Medium:: Paper

3. Illuminated Colophon

Creator:: 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (died 40 AH/AD 661)
Date:: 941 AH/AD 1534
Extent:: Dimensions: H: 9 1/4 x W: 6 1/2 in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm)
Medium:: ink and pigments on laid paper

4. Illuminated Double-page Incipit

Creator:: Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad Jami (Persian, died 898 AH/AD 1492)
Date:: 965 AH/AD 1557-1558
Extent:: Dimensions: H: 9 5/8 x W: 5 7/8 in. (24.5 x 15 cm)
Medium:: ink and pigments on cream-colored, gold-sprinkled laid paper
Time period:: Safavid

5. Illuminated Double-page Incipit with Titlepiece

Creator:: Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad Jami (Persian, died 898 AH/AD 1492)
Date:: 965 AH/AD 1557-1558
Extent:: Dimensions: H: 9 5/8 x W: 5 7/8 in. (24.5 x 15 cm)
Medium:: ink and pigments on cream-colored, gold-sprinkled laid paper
Time period:: Safavid

6. Illuminated Explicit Page with Colophon

Creator:: al-Busiri (Egyptian, died 694 AH/AD 1294)
Date:: 11th century AH/AD 17th century-12th century AH/AD 18th century
Extent:: Dimensions: H: 10 1/16 x W: 6 1/2 in. (25.5 x 16.5 cm)
Medium:: ink and pigments on cream, glazed paper for main panel with multi-colored paper for inlaid margins

7. Incipit with Illuminated Titlepiece

Creator:: Nizami Ganjavi (Azerbaijani, died 605 AH/AD 1209)
Date:: 10th century AH/AD 16th century
Extent:: Dimensions: H: 11 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28 x 19 cm)
Medium:: ink and pigments on tinted laid paper: cream for text area and rose or light brown for margins
Time period:: Safavid (?)

8. Kitāb Tārīkh al-Waṣṣāf al-musammá bi-Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-Aʻṣār

Creator:: Vaṣṣāf al-Ḥaz̤rat, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Faz̤l Allāh
.وصاف الحضرة، عبد الله بن فضل الله
Contributor:: Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Muḥammad Nabīl, former owner
ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥamzah, scribe
محمد نبيل، مالك سابق
علي ابن اسماعيل ابن حمزة, ناسخ
Date:: 1516].
Language:: Persian
Extent:: 296 leaves : paper ; 250 x 180 (200 x 120) mm.
Geographic region:: Iran
Time period:: 640-1500

9. Kitāb al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʼir al-naḥwīyah

Creator:: Suyūṭī
سيوطي
Contributor:: Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Eminzade Mustafa, former owner
امين زاده مصطفى، مالك سابق
Date:: [1480?-1536].
Language:: Arabic
Extent:: 290 leaves : paper ; 233 x 155 (163 x 75) mm.

10. Kitāb-i Tuhfat al-aḥrār

Creator:: Jāmī
جامي
Contributor:: Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Date:: [1568].
Language:: Persian
Extent:: 63 leaves ([128] p.) : paper ; 227 x 123 (142 x 61) mm.
Time period:: 747-1500

11. Left Side of a Double-page Illuminated Incipit

Creator:: Iranian
Date:: 1230 AH/AD 1814-1815 (?)
Extent:: Dimensions: H: 5 5/16 x W: 3 1/8 in. (13.5 x 8 cm)
Medium:: ink and pigments on cream laid paper

12. Left Side of an Illuminated Double-page Incipit

Creator:: Muhammad ibn Mustafa Izmiri (Turkish)
Date:: 1282 AH/AD 1865-1866
Extent:: Dimensions: H: 5 1/8 x W: 3 9/16 in. (13 x 9 cm)
Medium:: ink and pigments on cream-colored paper
Time period:: Ottoman