Late piece with Coptic influence in the script (?). Water spilled on it in ancient times. Written with the fibres. Blotting on the verso which need not be letters.
Three fragments (a-c) of a coptic manuscript written on paper. A has 4 lines, b has 7 lines on the verso and 6 lines on the recto and c has 7 lines on the verso and 8 lines on the recto.
Khamsah (or Quintet), poems written by Jamal al-din Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki Mu'ayyad, usually know by the pen name, Nizami. The greatest Persian poet, he spent most of his life (b. 575-613H [1141-1146 CE]; d. 575-623H [1180-217CE]) in Ganja, (former Elizabehtpol), present-day Azerbayjan. This copy, without its original cover, comprises 359 folios, with two-double paged illumination interleaved with a double-page frontispiece paingtin showing throne scene, and with a double-page finispiece painting showing a banquet. Every one of the five poems begins with an elaborate title heading, and ends with a carpet page and a place for a colophon. The manuscript is written in nasta'liq script and has twenty-seven paintings. Copied in Shira, Iran, by Qasim Katib (uncertain) in teh months of Muharram to Jumada II, 992 H [1584 CE].
Two fragments (E16476a and E16476b) of a document with signs obscure to the cataloguer. Probably a list. Written in black in with several lines on each side. examined by Dr. Jennifer Wegner and not desipherable