1. Ashraf al-wasāʼil ilá fahm al-Shamāʼil

Creator:

Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1503-approximately 1566

Date:

1065 A.H. (1655)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 23 long lines.

2. Devotional book

Date:

between 1850 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

West Africa?

Extent:

Written in 6 long lines.

3. Dual-page illuminated copy of al-Fātiḥah

Date:

between 1500 and 1599?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 6 lines in a central medallion.

4. Khamsah.

Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

Date:

990-992 A.H. (1582-1584)

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Shīrāz

Extent:

Chiefly written in 20 lines in four columns, some lines at angles.

5. Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan

Date:

between 1468-1496

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

First 14 pages written in 7 lines of 4 short lines alternating with 3 long lines; remaining pages written in the same rulings, but with 3 lines to each short section, for a total of 12 lines, 3 sets of 3 short lines, written in small script, alternating with 3 long lines.

6. Kitāb al-barakah

Creator:

Ḥubayshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1313-1380

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Morocco?

Extent:

Written in 26 long lines; poetry in two columns.

7. Kullīyāt-i Jāmī.

Creator:

Jāmī, 1414-1492

Date:

984 (1576)

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

Written in 25 long lines or 25 lines in four columns.

8. Leaf from the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī

Creator:

Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122

Date:

between 1850? and 1999?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Senegal?

Extent:

Written in 12 long lines.

9. Leaves from the Qurʼān and the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī

Creator:

Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122

Date:

between 1850 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Senegal?

Extent:

Written in 11-12 long lines.

10. Majmūʻah

Creator:

Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405

Date:

between 1775 and 1813?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Morocco?

Extent:

Written in 15-24 long lines with poetry in two columns.

11. Mukhtaṣar al-Saʻd

Creator:

Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338
Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338

Date:

1213 A.H. (1798 or 1799)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Morocco?

Extent:

Written in 25 long lines.

12. Sharḥ Qaṣīdat al-Burdah

Creator:

Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1499
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1499
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505

Date:

A.H. 1196 (1782)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Morocco?

Extent:

Written in 23-26 long lines with poetry in two staggered lines; ruled with a misṭarah.