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. Cast
Inscription

Geographic region:

Iraq

Medium:

Plaster

3. Devotional book

Date:

between 1850 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

West Africa?

Extent:

Written in 6 long lines.

4. Dual-page illuminated copy of al-Fātiḥah

Date:

between 1500 and 1599?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 6 lines in a central medallion.

5. Inscription

Date:

2625 - 2500 BC
-2626
-2499

Geographic region:

Egypt
Meydum

Time period:

Old Kingdom
Fourth Dynasty (uncertain)

Medium:

Limestone

Extent:

22.8
cm

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.