First book of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, comprising an introduction to general knowledge of medicine, anatomy, temperament, and the effect of environment on health and disease. Frequent marginal annotations, some affected by trimming. The first 40 leaves and the last 10 are later replacements.
Work connecting people's names to the place from which the name is taken. The work was composed in 918 or 928 A.H. (1512 or 1522 CE) according to the colophon copied into this copy. This copy is missing some pages at the beginning; the first complete entry is "Arak"; most of a quire of leaves is missing between f. 10 and f. 19; several pages at the end (f. 280-297) have had their inner, outer and lower edges trimmed, cutting off some text.
Copy of the Qur'ān; missing first folio, begins with Sūrat al-Baqarah (The Cow) 1 (2:1). Instructions for how much to read from the Qur'ān every day of the week written in modern script in pink ink on lined paper pasted onto f. 238v and the inside back cover.
Selections from the Qurʼān on a narrow, paper scroll. Lithographed rather than written, though decoration is by hand. The following verses are included: al-Fātiḥah, al-Baqarah (1-34), Āl-ʻImrān (1-31), Ṭā Ḥā (1-47), Yā Sīn (1-24), al-Mulk (1-21), al-Ikhlāṣ, al-Falaq, al-Nās.
Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in several different hands (f. [0]-8; f. 9-17; f. 18-30) on several different types of paper; many leaves repaired; the first 30 leaves are later replacements.
Dictionary of the Arabic language originally compiled between 1368 and 1392. Words are indexed by their last root letter and have brief definitions. Frequent marginal notes.
Second volume of a 10th-century dictionary of the Arabic language. Words are indexed by their last root letter, with this volume covering the letters zāʼ to lām. Marginal notes by a reader and proofreader. Later pastedown on inner cover has remedies written in Arabic and Persian.
Treatise on astronomy in four chapters, written for the wazīr Amīr Shāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣadr al-Saʻīd Tāj al-Dīn Muʻtazz ibn Ṭāhir (Kashf al-ẓunūn, ed. Fluegel, vol. 2, p. 229, with the title of each of the four chapters).
Copy of a set of works on Islamic theology and ritual practice written in Tashelhit (Shilha) in Arabic letters. Several leaves of the first work have been rewritten by a different copyist on smaller paper; the last work is missing the conclusion and the last few lines of the chapter. The works were composed in the early 18th century, between 1707 and 1714.
Mathematical treatise with frequent marginal notes by multiple hands. Some of the marginal notes are textual variants or corrections, sometimes in red and corresponding to red overlining in the text. Later added table of contents (f. i verso-iii recto). Ribbon or thread tied in the outer margin as a marker (f. 118).