Red and orange painting of three figures mounted in a wooden frame painted red with decorated corners and attached to a folding metal stand. The image depicts a man, seated on the right in an enclosed garden setting, gesturing toward a kneeling, beardless youth holding a large basin; behind the youth, a standing woman holds a vine; a rubāʻī is written in the lower section of the painting. On the back, an orange mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis surrounded by flowers in shades of orange and red.
Manuscript leaf with painting. The recto contains six lines of text in four columns, interrupted by a pastiche painting of six figures, four on the right side in helmets and chains and two on the left side. The verso holds two clippings of unrelated text pasted in different directions.
Two paintings mounted on card. The first illustrates Abraham sacrificing his son and the second is Joseph's brothers throwing him in a well; labels in Persian.
A trapezoid shaped writing tablet used for studying the Qurʼān; no handle; hole drilled through the upper center. The recto is mostly flat with water and scratch marks. A few words of Arabic including the name Abī Yasʻad ibn Aḥmad and a faint English description of the item are visible. The back of the tablet is rounded with a geometric drawing.
One leaf with poetry in Arabic on one side (recto) and a headpiece and painting of a hunt scene on the other side (verso) with the title "Qaṣāʼid-i Fārsī" under the headpiece; some marginalia in Persian.
Copy of al-Jazūlī's famous prayer book. This copy includes extensive additions in the margins as well as some blank pages at the end which have been partially filled with other prayers.
Lacunose copy of an illustrated Persian translation of a book of astronomy, mostly focused on the constellations; constellation illustrations from two sides have been transferred by pounce and are sometimes not completely inked or painted (see f. 52v, for example). Others have been outlined by pricking (see f. 58 lower illustrations, for example).
Prayer in the form of praise to the Prophet with an introduction. A concluding note mentions that al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Sayyid Ḥusayn al-Dāghtānī approved of the recitation (ajāza), approval which was also granted to Ayyūb Shamʻī (f. 36v). A leaf in a different hand included at the back of the copy is a selection from the Qurʼān containing verses 9-25 from Sūrat al-Anfāl (f. [38]).
A catechism or brief theological summary of Christian doctrines and liturgy in Arabic, arranged in question and answer format; the first subject is "Fī wujūd Allāh". A table of contents in a different hand was added at the end (p. [215]).
An astronomical treatise by al-Qūshjī and a commentary on it by Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārī, copied together. A leaf (f. [23]) may have been removed. In the commentary, source-text is overlined in red.
Two miniatures both taken from the same manuscript, possibly one of the Naṣīḥatnāmah. The first miniature (dimensions 148 x 110 mm) depicts the king talking to a standing figure while four other figures sit in waiting. The second miniature (dimensions 120 x 115 mm) from chapter 13 of the text (on avoiding people who betray others) depicts the king conversing with a kneeling person in green while a second kneeling person in orange turns to say something to the two men standing behind him.
Book of prayers to say during visits to sacred sites including during the ʻĀshūrā pilgrimage, when visiting the grave of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī. Prayers in Arabic with Persian instruction and some translation.
Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in at least three hands with varying page layout; also includes six replacement pages on rougher paper (f. 55-57, 59-61).
Text listing and explaining basic Muslim beliefs and describing ritual practices. Includes information on the ritual prayers, the names of the Sunnī schools of thought, some selections from the Qurʼān, and other topics of general Islamic education.
On spheres and their geometrical qualities. Copied in a lined copybook with 14 blank leaves at the end. Further note in Persian about the copy by the scribe at the end of the text (f. 27r).
Second half of section 11 in full, containing the first word of 10:26 to the final word of 11:5. This copy also contains a waqf statement and prayers to say before and after recitation.
Persian-learner's copy of the story. In some sections, the story appears on rectos, and glosser terms in Persian and English appear on the facing verso (f. 1v-9v); in other sections, the story appears on both recto and verso, with vocabulary items annotated in English in the margin (f. 46-113).
Manual of arithmetic and geometry for merchants' use including how to calculate the area of a ship. According to the compiler, the work includes excerpts from the following texts: Muntakhab al-ḥisāb, Līlāvatī, and Dastūr al-ʻamal.
This is a collection of four works bound together, with Dalāʼil al-khayrāt as the longest text. There are several different types of paper present in the volume with a few blank pages around each text.
An illuminated copy of al-Jazūlī's classic work on the Prophet Muḥammad which has been partially vocalized. The flyleaves are inscribed in what appear to be two hands. The opening leaves include a Qur'anic passage, 18:107-110 (f.1r), followed by the Beautiful Names of God (al-asmāʼ al-husnā) (following 1v-2r). The closing leaves contain a supplication (duʻāʼ) on the repeated pattern of "yā [fāʻil] ghayr [mafʻūl]" (following 268v-269r) and a quatrain (f. 270r).
Two treatises on mathematics, copied together. The second work, al-Risālah al-Muḥammadīyah, contains only the first maqālah and seems to be the Arabic translation of al-Qūshjī's Persian Risālah fī al-ḥisāb.
Summary of points of Islamic law, dealing with acts of worship (ʻibādāt) including ablution, prayer, and fasting; the copy is missing both the beginning and the end. Pages are fragile, the copy is quite worm damaged and damp stained. Invocation in a different hand added at the end (f. 68v-69r).
Turkish grammar explained in Arabic, covering the imperative (al-amr), negative imperative (al-nahī), simple past and past perfect (al-māḍī), present tense (al-muḍāriʻ), and verbal nouns (ism al-fāʻil), before proceeding to the construction of simple sentences and additional suffixes.
Persian translation and commentary of selections from Nahj al-balāghah. Arabic source-text is overlined and written in a different style to distinguish it.
Book illustrating how to write the Arabic alphabet. The majority of the leaves contain grids showing letters in their isolated and connected forms (f. 1v-16r). The final leaves contain short, model sentences (f. 16v-18r).
Jaghmīnī's treatise on astronomy and geography with a preface and dedication to Ulugh Beg on the first 5 pages. Includes many diagrams and some empty spaces left for illustrations that were never completed.
Ottoman copy of Dalāʼil al-khayrāt with two full-page color illustrations and several decorative panels. Last three pages in Ottoman Turkish. The final two pages are in a different hand and discuss the practice of sacrificing a lamb on a specific day after a child is born.
A book of prayers in Arabic, with instructions in Ottoman Turkish about how the prayers are to be recited. Notes have also been attached to the main support.
One leaf with a section of Jamī's poem Yūsuf va Zulaykhā. The leaf contains section 7 of the poem, about the Prophet Muḥammad's miʻrāj; couplets 4-17 on the recto, 19-25 on the verso with an illustration of the Prophet between verses 23 and 24.
On writing (inshāʼ). It begins with an Arabic-Ottoman glossary of terms used in writing official and unofficial letters (f. 1v-3r), followed by a tutorial on writing letters. The following types of letter are included: from inferiors to superiors (f. 10v-14r), letters home (f. 14v-17r), from a child to his grandfather (f. 17v-19v), from a father to a son (f. 20r-22r), from a son to his mother (f. 22v-24v), from a mother to her child (f. 25r-26v), petition addressing the Sultan (f. 27r-28r), an emancipation certificate (f. 28v-30v), and newspaper writing (f. 31r-34v); a short lesson on basic arithmetic follows (f. 34v-35r). Two inserts laid in: a telegraph receipt, and a sheet in nastaʻliq shikastah about accounting in Persian.
Compostite manuscript written in at least three hands and on more than one type of paper containing eight treatises on astronomy and arithmetic with an introduction; diagrams within and between the works. Some of the works are dedicated to Muḥammad Valī Mīrzā, the third son of Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qajar (see for example, f. 171v, 279r).
Neatly written copy of the fifty anecdotes written in rhymed prose (sajʻ) framed as encounters between two characters, al-Ḥarith ibn Hammām, the narrator, and Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī followed by al-Risālah al-shīnīyah (f. 126v) and al-Risālah al-sīnīyah (f. 127v).
Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān with interlinear Persian translation containing the last four words of 16:126 to the end (114:6). A few leaves have been replaced and rewritten in two different hands (f. 5, f. 243-247). Most leaves have been repaired along the outside edges, obscuring some marginal notations.
Copy of a treatise; two volumes in one; the first about intellect, reason, ignorance, the second about politics. The copy has several watercolor illustrations.
On charms, talismans, supernatural protective abilities of different Qur'ānic verses. The copy is written in several different hands and has a number of blank leaves in the middle.
Composite manuscript with two works. The first on ritual practice with chapters on cleanliness, prayers, fasting, alms giving, pilgrimage, marriage, legal guardianship, and inheritance; the second text an astronomical treatise by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī.
Collection of works, mostly selections from larger works, in Arabic and Persian, on Arabic grammar; copied in the same hand. A table of contents was written in at the front (f. 1r). The last three works are in Persian, of those, the two shorter works (5, 6) are in the form of questions and answers.
Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish copied in the same hand and bound together; the Turkish work (3) is missing the first leaf; f. 84v-98v are all excerpts from (naqala min) the same book with no attribution, Miṣbāḥ al-ẓalām.
Copy of a treatise on different calendars and how to convert them one to another and the revolution of heavenly bodies and their impact on different days of the year.
Devotional book chiefly containing selections from the Qurʼān including sūrat Yā Sīn, al-Fatḥ, al-Mulk, al-Nabāʼ, and al-Takāthur through al-Nās inclusive, these are followed by several individual verses and prayers; the text concludes with al-Fātiḥah and another prayer.
A volume of the ḥadīth collection of al-Bukhārī; contains from the beginning of "Kāf-hā-yā-ʻayn-ṣād" through the end of "Kitāb al-aḍāḥī"; some marginalia.
Illuminated leaf with one complete ghazal and two partial poems. Includes the three last lines of ghazal beginning "saḥar bulbul ḥikāyat bā ṣabā kard", all of ghazal beginning "saman būyān ghubār-i gham chū binshīnand binshānand" and the first two lines of ghazal beginning "sāqī ḥadīs̲-i sarv va gul va lālah mīravad".