1. Calligraphic album.

Creator:

Riżā, Ḥasan, active 1889

Date:

1889 or 1890

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Three layouts: 1) Three larger lines with two sets of 4 or 5 lines between each set of larger lines, 2) Two larger lines at the head and tail of the page with 7 to 11 lines in the middle, 3) Four larger lines with three sets of two lines in between. All pages border-ruled and framed in blue paper.

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

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.

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

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

between 1700 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

North Africa?

Extent:

Written in 10 long lines; border-ruled.

4. Devotional book.

Date:

1777

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

5. Devotional book.

Date:

1771 or 1772

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.

6. Devotional book.

Date:

between 1725 and 1825?

Language:

Persian

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled in a pear-shape.

7. Gulistān.

Creator:

Saʻdī

Date:

1582 or 1583

Language:

Persian

Extent:

Written in 11 to 15 long lines, partially border-ruled.

8. Hādhā kitāb sharḥ Mashāriq.

Creator:

Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1181-1252
Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1181-1252

Date:

1753

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 27 long lines; border-ruled.

9. Khamsah.

Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

Date:

between 1405 and 1414?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Shiraz, Iran

Extent:

Written in 19 lines in four columns; border-ruled.

10. Muṣḥaf jalīl fīhi ....

Creator:

Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)

Date:

950?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Sinai, Egypt

Extent:

Written in 15-17 long lines.

11. Notebook of magical formulae.

Date:

1924

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 13 long lines.

12. Shāhnāmah.

Creator:

Firdawsī

Date:

1849

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

Chiefly 25 lines in 4 columns; prose prefaces in 21 long lines; border-ruled.