Loose leaf copy of portions of a book of prayers divided by day. This copy contains parts of prayers said on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and is in catchword order, though leaves are missing. Some leaves have been replaced in a different hand, on modern, lined paper (text is written perpendicular to the lines).
Dual-page illuminated copy of al-Fātiḥah, the first sūrah of the Qurʼān. The leaves are both blank on the verso, are written on thin paper and have been remounted onto machine-made paper.
Large format, illuminated copy of prayers from Kitāb Duʻāʼ al-Jawshan and the Duʻāʼ al-Sayfī, attributed to ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. The copy is dedicated to Qāʼit Bāy, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1496). The first page of text gives the transmitter as Muḥammad ibn Zayn al-ʻArab Sharafshāh al-Ḥusaynī (p. [4]).
Loose leaf copy of a small portion of the Qurʼān, 9 leaves, verses 87-185 of al-Baqarah (2:87-185) along with 4 leaves containing portions of the first Maqāmāh of al-Ḥarīrī.
Composite manuscript containing 8 works and pages of notations, written in at least three hands. The majority of the works are related to Ḥadīth and other anecdotes related to Muḥammad and other prophets. Some of the paper is machine made; the flyleaves and blank pages have also been covered in notes; some pages have been removed.
Manuscript containing three texts, copied in three different hands. The first work is a commentary on the poem known as al-Burdah by al-Būṣīrī, the second is a response by al-Suyūṭī to questions about the Ḥadīth and the third is a set of poems and Ḥadīth excerpts.
In the introduction, the author says that this is a retelling of the conquest of Syria and Iraq (Futūḥ al-Shām wa-al-ʻIrāq). The author states that 'the people of this time of ours' (ahl zamāninā hādhā) like reading conquest literature, so he has borrowed from the futūḥ works of both Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭalamankī [al-Maʻāfirī] and Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Wāqidī and produced his own volume.