1. Vaṣiyyet.

Creator:

Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573

Date:

1784

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Geographic region:

Turkey

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines.

2. 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.

3. Sīrat al-Nabī Muḥammad.

Creator:

Ghayṭī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1504 or 1505-1573 or 1574

Date:

1838

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 10-15 long lines with commentary on three sides.

4. al-Ḥawḍ.

Creator:

Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749
Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749

Date:

1794

Language:

Berber languages

Geographic region:

Morocco

Extent:

Written in 17 lines in two closely spaced columns.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Subḥat al-abrār.

Creator:

Jāmī, 1414-1492

Date:

1529 or 1530

Language:

Persian

Extent:

Written in 12 lines in two columns; 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. 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.

11. Muṣḥaf jalīl fīhi ....

Creator:

Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)

Date:

950?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Sinai, Egypt

Extent:

Written in 15-17 long lines.

12. Gulistān.

Creator:

Saʻdī

Date:

1582 or 1583

Language:

Persian

Extent:

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