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1. Ashraf al-wasāʼil ilá fahm al-Shamāʼil

Creator:
Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1503-approximately 1566
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
Extent:
Written in 6 long lines.
Geographic region:
West Africa?

4. Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan

Date:
between 1468-1496
Language:
Arabic
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.
Geographic region:
Egypt?

5. Kitāb al-barakah

Creator:
Ḥubayshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1313-1380
Ḥubayshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1313-1380
Date:
between 1600 and 1799?
Language:
Arabic
Extent:
Written in 26 long lines; poetry in two columns.
Geographic region:
Morocco?

6. Leaf from the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī

Creator:
Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122
Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122
Date:
between 1850? and 1999?
Language:
Arabic
Extent:
Written in 12 long lines.
Geographic region:
Senegal?

8. Majmūʻah

Creator:
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
Date:
between 1775 and 1813?
Language:
Arabic
Extent:
Written in 15-24 long lines with poetry in two columns.
Geographic region:
Morocco?

9. 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
Extent:
Written in 25 long lines.
Geographic region:
Morocco?

10. 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
Extent:
Written in 23-26 long lines with poetry in two staggered lines; ruled with a misṭarah.
Geographic region:
Morocco?

11. al-Durr al-nafīs fī uns al-ẓāʻin wa-al-jalīs

Creator:
Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823
Maʻāfirī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 950 or 951-1038
Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 747 or 748-823
Maʻāfirī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 950 or 951-1038
Date:
1192 A.H. (1778)
Language:
Arabic
Extent:
Written in 25 long lines.
Geographic region:
Morocco?