1. al-Bayān wa al-tidhkār fī ṣanʻat ʻamal al-ghubār. Creator: Abū Bakr al-Ḥaṣṣār, active 12th century Date: A.H. 590 (1194) Language: Arabic Geographic region: Baghdād Extent: Written in 15 long lines.
2. al-Nisbah ilá al-mawāḍiʻ wa-al-buldān. Creator: Abū Makhramah, al-Ṭayyib ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1465-1540 Date: between 1700 and 1799? Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 21 long lines.
3. Astrological and magical treatises. Creator: Abū Maʻshar, -886 Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 27 lines per page in red and black ink; text area border-ruled in black ink with double bounding lines. Pages 2-6 in double columns (56 mm. in width) separated by a single vertical rule in black ink. Numerous tables and diagrams.
4. Dhikr baʻḍ mashāhīr ahl Fās fī al-qadīm Creator: Abū Zayd al-Fāsī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, 1630 or 1631-1684 or 1685Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund Date: A.H. 1353 (1934) Language: Arabic
5. Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn wa-īḍāḥ sabīl al-murshidīn. Creator: Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983 Language: Arabic Geographic region: North Africa? Extent: 23 long lines.
6. Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad. Creator: Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013 Language: Arabic Geographic region: A.H. 869 (1464) Extent: Written in 19 long lines.
7. Kalimāt ʻarabīyah ʻalá tartīb ḥurūf al-tahajjī. Creator: Akhtarī, Muṣṭafá ibn Aḥmad, -1560 or 1561 Date: A.H. 956 (1549) Language: Arabic Geographic region: Turkey Extent: 17 long lines with additions in the margins added at angles.
8. Ḥall al-Mūjiz. Creator: Aqsarāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 14th century Date: A.H. 884 (1480) Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 21 long lines with marginal notes (except on replacement leaves, f. 63-64, 125-130, 157-162, 173-178).
9. Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj. Creator: Ardabīlī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī, 1572-1627Ṭūsawī, Ḥajjī Bābā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, active 15th centuryZamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144Ardabīlī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī, 1572-1627Ṭūsawī, Ḥajjī Bābā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, active 15th centuryZamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144 Date: A.H. 1101 (1689 or 1690) , A.H. 1126 (1714) Language: Arabic Extent: First work written in 15 long lines; second work written in 21 long lines.
10. Fragments from Books III-V of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Creator: Avicenna, 980-1037 Date: 12--? Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 40-41 long lines.
11. Books III-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb Creator: Avicenna, 980-1037 Date: A.H. 899-904 (1494-1498) Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 29 long lines.
12. al-Kullīyāt. Creator: Avicenna, 980-1037 Date: between 1375 and 1399? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Iran? Extent: Written in 15-18 long lines.
13. Books II-V of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Creator: Avicenna, 980-1037 Date: A.H. 989 (1581) Language: Arabic Geographic region: Persia? Extent: Written in 31 long lines, with names of medicines and ailments written in the margins.
14. Sharḥ al-Burdah. Creator: Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1499Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1499Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296? Date: A.H. 1150 (1737) Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 21 long lines.
15. al-Fatḥ al-rabbānī fīmā dhahala ʻanhu al-Zurqānī. Creator: Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: ca. 1811 Language: Arabic Geographic region: North Africa? Extent: 24 long lines.
16. al-Fatḥ al-rabbānī fīmā dhahala ʻanhu al-Zurqānī. Creator: Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between A.H. 1268 (1851) and 1276 (1859) Language: Arabic Geographic region: North Africa Extent: Long lines in all volumes (v. 1: 23; v. 2: 28; v. 3: 23; v. 4: 20); border-ruled; frame-ruled; some marginalia.
17. al-Fatḥ al-rabbānī fīmā dhahala ʻanhu al-Zurqānī. Creator: Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between A.H. 1268 (1851) and 1276 (1859) Language: Arabic Geographic region: North Africa Extent: Long lines in all volumes (v. 1: 23; v. 2: 28; v. 3: 23; v. 4: 20); border-ruled; frame-ruled; some marginalia.
18. al-Fatḥ al-rabbānī fīmā dhahala ʻanhu al-Zurqānī. Creator: Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between A.H. 1268 (1851) and 1276 (1859) Language: Arabic Geographic region: North Africa Extent: Long lines in all volumes (v. 1: 23; v. 2: 28; v. 3: 23; v. 4: 20); border-ruled; frame-ruled; some marginalia.
19. al-Fatḥ al-rabbānī fīmā dhahala ʻanhu al-Zurqānī. Creator: Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Bannānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 1720 or 1721-1780Zurqānī, ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Yūsuf, 1611-1688Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between A.H. 1268 (1851) and 1276 (1859) Language: Arabic Geographic region: North Africa Extent: Long lines in all volumes (v. 1: 23; v. 2: 28; v. 3: 23; v. 4: 20); border-ruled; frame-ruled; some marginalia.
20. Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl. Creator: Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286 Date: between 1550? and 1664 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 25 long lines with border-rules.
21. Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl. Creator: Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286 Date: between 1550? and 1664 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 25 long lines with border-rules.
22. al-Qurʼān. Creator: Benjamin Franklin Library Fund Date: after 1950? Language: Arabic Extent: 3 lines per centimeter for text areas.
23. Risālat Aḥmad ibn Mūsá ibn Aḥmad ilá al-qāḍiyayn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad wa-Ḥamīd Bannānī ḥawla sharḥ al-Iḥyāʼ Creator: Bin Aḥmad, Aḥmad bin MūsáFez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund Date: A.H. 1312 (1895) Language: Arabic
24. Kitāb fī istīʻāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʻat al-asṭurlāb. Creator: Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 973?-1048Alhazen, 965-1039Qūhī, Wayjan ibn Rustam, -approximately 1000 Date: A.H. 625 (1228) Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 21-24 long lines.
25. Abridged history of Arab dynasties. Creator: Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Date: between 1650 and 1699? Language: Arabic Extent: 29 long lines, compactly written; text block is frame-ruled; poetry is indented on both sides; no colophon.
26. Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Khalīl. Creator: Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between 1570 and 1573 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt? Extent: 33 long lines; some marginalia.
27. Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Khalīl. Creator: Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between 1570 and 1573 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt? Extent: 33 long lines; some marginalia.
28. Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Khalīl. Creator: Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between 1570 and 1573 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt? Extent: 33 long lines; some marginalia.
29. Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Khalīl. Creator: Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365?Damīrī, Bahrām ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1333 or 1334-1402 or 1403Khalīl ibn Isḥāq al-Jundī, -1365? Date: between 1570 and 1573 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt? Extent: 33 long lines; some marginalia.
30. Kitāb madāʼiḥ yataḍammanu madāʼiḥ li-shahr Kīhak wa-al-aʻyād al-sayyidīyah kibār wa-ṣighār wa-madāʼiḥ al-arbaʻīn al-muqaddasah wa-al-ṣalīb. Creator: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning Date: between 1700 and 1850? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt? Extent: Written in 13 to 15 lines per page in black and red ink; text frame-ruled in blind.
31. Book on the configuration of the orb. Creator: Dunash ibn Tamim, active 10th century Date: 13--? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Seville?, Spain Extent: Written in 21 long lines.
32. Gathering from Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis. Creator: Euclid Date: A.H. 502 (1108-1109) Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt, Iraq, or Syria Extent: Written in 15 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah with approximately 8 mm. between lines, a standard measurement for manuscripts written in Egypt.
33. Ikhtiṣār lil-maqālāt min kitāb Uqlīdis. Creator: Euclid Date: A.H. 502 (1108-1109) Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt, Iraq, or Syria Extent: Written in 15 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah with approximately 8 mm. between lines, a standard measurement for manuscripts written in Egypt.
34. Ḍawʼ al-sirāj. Creator: Faraḍī, Maḥmūd ibn Abī Bakr, 1246 or 1247-1300 Date: A.H. 723-747 (1323-1347) Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 19 long lines.
35. Qaṣīdah / Creator: Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund Date: A.H. 1330 (1912) Language: Arabic
36. al-Qāmūs al-muḥīṭ. Creator: Fīrūzābādī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, 1329-1414 or 1415 Date: between 1350 and 1450? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Iran? Extent: Written in 33-34 long lines; border-ruled.
37. Ḥall al-ṭilsam wa-kashf al-sirr al-mubham Creator: Ghamrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1499 or 1500Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Date: A.H. 1186 (1772) Language: Arabic Extent: 26 long lines.
38. Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn. Creator: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111 Date: A.H. 1100 (1689) Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 29 long lines.
39. Al-maqāl al-awwal min fuṣūl Abūqrāṭ al-ḥakim Creator: Hippocrates. Language: Arabic Geographic region: Orient Extent: Lines: 13 (verso).19 X 14 cm
40. Sharḥ Fuṣūl Buqurāṭ. Masāʼil Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq. Creator: Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, -approximately 1068 Date: between 1300 and 1399? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt or Syria? Extent: Written in 31 long lines.
41. Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār. Creator: Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʻUmarī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 1301-1349 Date: 1710 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Aleppo Extent: Written in 27 long lines.
42. Mughnī al-labīb. Creator: Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360 Date: between 1500 and 1599? Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 26 long lines.
43. Manhaj al-ʻilm wa-al-bayān wa-nuzhat al-samʻ wa-al-aʻyān. Creator: Ibn Kabūlakh, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá Date: A.H. 1268 (1852) Language: Arabic Geographic region: Syria? Extent: 23-29 long lines; frame-ruled.
44. Kāfiyat al-ṭālib al-rabbānī li-Risālat Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī. Fatḥ al-mannān ʻalá naẓm mawrid al-ẓamʼān. Creator: Ibn Khalaf, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1453-1532Ibn ʻĀshir, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad, 1582 or 1583-1630 or 1631Ibn Khalaf, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1453-1532Ibn ʻĀshir, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad, 1582 or 1583-1630 or 1631 Date: A.H. 1106 (1695) Language: Arabic Geographic region: North Africa? Extent: 36-37 long lines; frame-ruled.
45. Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān. Creator: Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282Annenberg Research Institute Date: between 1400 and 1599? Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 21 long lines.
46. Didactic poem on surveying and measurement of areas (taksīr). Creator: Ibn Luyūn al-Tujībī, Saʻd ibn Aḥmad, 1282 or 1283-1349 or 1350 Date: 13--?-14--? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Spain? Extent: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in dry point.
47. Ibn Malak ʻalá al-Manār fī uṣūl al-fiqh. Creator: Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Date: between 1500 and 1699? Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 25 long lines.
48. Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah. Creator: Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīzMaḥbūbī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1344 or 1345Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīzMaḥbūbī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, -1344 or 1345 Date: between 1400 and 1599? Language: Arabic Extent: Written in 29 long lines.