1. 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.

2. Ajbīyah. al-Salām la-ki yā Maryam.

Creator:

Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Coptic Church

Date:

between 1650 and 1750?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt ;

Extent:

10 long lines for Arabic text; 12 long lines for Coptic.

3. Al-juzʼ al-awwal min kitāb Mashāriq al-anwār al-Qudsīyah fī bayān al-ʻuhūd al-Muḥammadīyah al-shahīr bi-al-ʻUhūd al-kubrá.

Creator:

Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College)

Date:

1852

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Syria?

Extent:

17 long lines

4. Al-maqāl al-awwal min fuṣūl Abūqrāṭ al-ḥakim

Creator:

Hippocrates.

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

Extent:

Lines: 13 (verso).
19 X 14 cm

5. Alchemical compendium.

Creator:

Ḥusaynī, Ibrāhīm, active 15th century

Date:

A.H. 901-904 (1496-1499)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Herat, Afghanistan

Extent:

Written in 15-24 long lines.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Arabic inscription

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

9. Arabic inscription

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

Extent:

Lines: recto 12, verso 5; ruling method: scattered, uneven lines.

10. Arabic inscription

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

Extent:

Columns: 2,; lines: 5-7 per column; ruling method: vertical fold, pen.
17.8 X 15.2 cm

11. Arabic inscription

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

Extent:

Columns: 2,; lines: 5-7 per column
17.8 X 15.2 cm

12. Arabic inscription

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

Extent:

10.7 X 7 cm

13. Arabic poem with painting

Date:

18--?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

16 lines in two columns with a third outside marginal column of 11 angled lines; marginalia.

14. Arabic-Syriac glossary.

Creator:

J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College)

Date:

18--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Lebanon?

Extent:

19-22 lines in three columns.

15. 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.

16. Awwal Wafayāt al-aʻyān wa-anbāʼ al-zamān.

Creator:

Ibn Khallikān, 1211-1282
Annenberg Research Institute

Date:

between 1400 and 1599?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 21 long lines.

17. Badr al-ṭāliʻ fī ḥall Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ

Creator:

Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459
Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1327-1370

Date:

between 1400 and 1599?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

17 lines per page; catchwords on versos, lower left.

18. Bishārat Lūqā.

Date:

between 1800 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in 11-12 long lines; frame-ruled.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb.

Creator:

Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1437 or 1438-1513

Date:

1747

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Morocco?

Extent:

20 long lines; catchwords each verso, lower left.

23. Calligraphic album.

Creator:

Riżā, Ḥasan, active 1889

Date:

1889 or 1890

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Three layouts: 1) Three larger lines with two sets of 4 or 5 lines between each set of larger lines, 2) Two larger lines at the head and tail of the page with 7 to 11 lines in the middle, 3) Four larger lines with three sets of two lines in between. All pages border-ruled and framed in blue paper.

24. Charm

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

[Caribbean?]

Extent:

39 lines in two columns
385 x 315 mm

25. Collected classic wise sayings

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

Extent:

Lines: 17.
17.8 X 12.5 cm

26. Collection of Sufi writings and prayers

Creator:

Jafāʼī, Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan Khalwatī, active 1481
Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258
Kūrānī, Aḥmad ibn Ismāʻīl, 1410 or 1411-1487 or 1488
Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575
Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, -1166

Date:

1797

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

11 long lines.

27. Collection of alphabets and encoded correspondence

Date:

14--

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Syria?

Extent:

Written in 13 long lines.

28. Collection of prayers

Date:

1849

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

10 long lines; catchwords each verso, lower left.

29. Collection of prayers and charms.

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

30. Collection of prayers and selections from the Qurʼān.

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

9 lines generally forming an oval shape, border-ruled with corner decorations; several leaves have full page calligraphic illuminations.

31. Collection of prayers.

Date:

between 1725 and 1825?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

9 long lines, sometimes staggered, with some marginalia.

32. Collection of prayers.

Date:

between 1650 and 1800?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

11 long lines.

33. Collection of works on Arabic grammar.

Creator:

Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1257

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

9 long lines.

34. Collection of works on astronomy and astronomical instruments

Creator:

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
Marrākushī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī, active 13th century
Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm
Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1423-
Muwaqqit, Muḥammad ibn Kātib Sinān

Date:

between 1694 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

19-22 long lines.

35. Coptic-Arabic glossary.

Date:

between 14--? and15--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

15 lines per page in two columns.

36. Court document

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Lines: 11 (8 text, 3 signature) (recto).
19.7 X 18.4 cm

37. Court document

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

Extent:

Lines: 28.

38. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalawāt ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1200 (1786)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey ;

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

39. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalawāt ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1196 (1782)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

40. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalawāt ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465

Date:

A.H. 1204 (1789)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

9 long lines, border-ruled.

41. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465

Date:

1835 or 1836

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

13 long lines, border-ruled.

42. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1131 (1719)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey ;

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

43. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.

44. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

between 1700 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

North Africa?

Extent:

Written in 10 long lines; border-ruled.

45. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

A.H. 1078 (1667)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

46. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?

Date:

A.H. 1259 (1878)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

47. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465

Date:

between 1850 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

North Africa?

Extent:

13 long lines with extensive marginalia.

48. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

1836

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Yānīyah (Greece)

Extent:

11 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords every verso, lower left; some leaves have a grid pattern (f. 11r-16v).

49. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1700 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Qarah Ḥiṣārī

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

50. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, 1404-1465

Date:

A.H. 1182 (1768)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines.

51. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... .

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296

Date:

between 1650 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

9-11 lines, some pages line-ruled; border-ruled.

52. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāt ʻalá al-Nabī al-mukhtār

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
جزولي، محمد بن سليمان، -1465

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

[North Africa?]

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines, border-ruled.
88, i leaves; 160 x 115 (124 x78) mm bound to 160 x 125 mm

53. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt.

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465

Date:

between 1800 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Morocco ?

Extent:

5 to 9 lines per page.

54. Dalāʼil al-khayrāt... etc..

Creator:

Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
ʻAbd al-Salām bin Mashīsh, 1163?-1225
Abū Madyan, -1197 or 1198
Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, -1465
ʻAbd al-Salām bin Mashīsh, 1163?-1225
Abū Madyan, -1197 or 1198
Barzanjī, Jaʻfar ibn Ḥasan, -1763 or 1764
Dasūqī, Ibrāhīm, 1255-1296
Dimyāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Aybak, -1348
Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
Sammān, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, 1718-1775
Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258

Date:

A.H. 1123?-1225 (1711?-1810)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

11 long lines border-ruled with 12-13 marginal lines at angles mostly along the outside long edge.

55. Devotional Book.

Creator:

J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College)

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

11 long lines.

56. Devotional Book.

Creator:

Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1198 (1783)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey? ;

Extent:

11 long lines, border-ruled.

57. Devotional book

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Chiefly 7 long lines, with some tables and tabular layouts.

58. Devotional book

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

7 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.

59. Devotional book

Date:

1716

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

9 lines per page.

60. Devotional book.

Date:

between 1700 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

10 ruled lines; border-ruled.

61. Devotional book.

Date:

1777

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

62. Devotional book.

Date:

1771 or 1772

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.

63. Devotional book.

Date:

1757-58

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey or the Balkans?

Extent:

11 long lines or tables with 3 columns and 5 rows of names; folios with the most extensive marginalia are blind ruled for marginalia.

64. Devotional book.

Date:

between 1830 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

9 long lines with border rules.

65. Devotional book.

Creator:

Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1800 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled.

66. Devotional book.

Date:

between 1800 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

67. Dhakhīrat al-Iskandar al-Malik ibn Fīliqs Dhī al-Qarnayn.

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

between 1700 and 1850?

Extent:

13 lines per page with some lines shortened when necessary to fit an image.

68. 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 1685
Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund

Date:

A.H. 1353 (1934)

Language:

Arabic

69. 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.

70. Dīwān Tāj al-ʻārifīn wa-sulṭān al-ʻāshiqīn min al-shuʻarāʼ bi-lā muʻāriḍ ʻUmar ibn Fāriḍ.

Creator:

Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī, 1181 or 1182-1235

Date:

1875

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

Two columns with five pairs of half-lines (miṣrāʻ) down each page.

71. Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb fī sharḥ alfāẓ al-Taqrīb.

Creator:

Ghazzī, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim, 1454 or 1455-1512 or 1513

Date:

1676

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

15 long lines.

72. Fatḥ al-quddūs fī sharḥ khuṭbat al-Qāmūs.

Creator:

Hilālī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1701-1761

Date:

1881

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

20 lines per page.

73. Fawāʼid al-ḥabīb. Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ.

Creator:

Ibn al-Bahāʼ, Abu ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad
Hāshimī, Aḥmad ibn Saʻd Allāh. ǂt Zinjār al-ḥukamāʼ
Anṣārī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, ǂe scribe

Date:

ca. 1400

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in 25 long lines.

74. Four Gospels.

Date:

1792

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in black and red ink. Includes title-headings, catchwords, and diacritics.

75. Four treatises on astrolabes and astronomy.

Creator:

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, approximately 820-approximately 912
ʻAlī al-Riyāḍī al-Munajjim, active 1543

Date:

A.H. 950 (1543)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Cairo

Extent:

Written in 27 long lines; no catchwords.

76. 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.

77. Fuṣūl al-Injīl al-ṭāhir al-muqaddas.

Creator:

J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College)

Date:

15--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Iraq?

Extent:

23 long lines, except for f. 113v, which is in two columns.

78. Fī al-falak wa-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb.

Creator:

Menelaus, of Alexandria
Ṭūsī, al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad, active 12th century
Alhazen, 965-1039
Archimedes
Aristarchus, of Samos
Nasawī, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, -1039
Omar Khayyam
Ṣābiʼ, Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century
Sanjarī, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, active 10th century-11th century
Sijzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1084 or 1085
Fārābī
Ibn al-Surá, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1153

Date:

12--?-13--?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Chiefly 19 lines per page; some marginalia.

79. 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.

80. Gospel of Mark.

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in primarily black ink (1 line in red on f. 86r) in 10-11 lines per page on coarse paper; text area frame-ruled in blind.

81. Gospels. Questions and answers about Arabic grammar.

Creator:

Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 19 long lines; second text written in 12-15 lines; border-ruled.

82. Hādhihi Fawāʼid mutanawwiʻat al-mawāʼid.

Date:

1732

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Chiefly 23 long lines; poetry in two columns; some marginalia.

83. Hādhihi muqaddimah fīmā ʻalá qāriʼih.

Creator:

Ibn al-Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1350-1429
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1240 (1824)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

19 lines in two columns, color coded and border-ruled.

84. Hādhihi risālah fī al-ḥisāb ...

Creator:

Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
Ibn al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1256?-1321?
Dimashqī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Aḥmad
Ashʻarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, active 11th century-12th century

Date:

1719-1720

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey

Extent:

19-23 long lines with generous margins for notes; extensive marginalia in first work. Catchwords in third work each verso, lower left.

85. Hādhā kitāb irshād /

Creator:

ʻAbd al-Ḍayf Mūsá ibn Walī ibn Ḥasan
Samuel P. Orlando Fund

Date:

A.H. 1171 (1758)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey

Extent:

Written in 19 long lines (f. 1v-3v) and 16-17 long lines (f. 4r-8v); frame-ruled in red ink at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3r). Catch phrases, lower left recto.

86. Hādhā kitāb munyat al-muṣallī.

Date:

A.H. 1160 (1747)

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled.

87. Hādhā kitāb sharḥ Mashāriq.

Creator:

Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1181-1252
Ibn Malak, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
Ṣaghānī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1181-1252

Date:

1753

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Written in 27 long lines; border-ruled.

88. Hādhā majmūʻ fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf.

Creator:

Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1257
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?
Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1257
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Chiefly written in 13 long lines; some pages border and frame ruled. Replacement pages written in 12 long lines. Some marginalia.

89. Hādhā min Khawāṣs al-manāzil wa-hiya fī al-maghrib anwāʼ.

Date:

13--?-15--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

North Africa

Extent:

Written in 24-28 long lines; margins marked by folding or misṭarah.

90. Hādhā ḥijāb ʻaẓīm al-shaʼn wa-al-burhān.

Date:

18--?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

8 or 9 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.

91. 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.

92. 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.

93. Inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafīyah.

Creator:

Karajī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, -approximately 1016

Date:

A.H. 1084 (1674)

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Written in 15 long lines.

94. Incomplete text on letter magic.

Date:

17th or 18th century?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

12-13 lines; border-ruled.

95. Injīl Yūḥannā al-bashīr.

Date:

between 1800 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Written in 9 long lines.

96. Irshād al-sārī.

Creator:

Qasṭallānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518
Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, 810-870
Qasṭallānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1447 or 1448-1517 or 1518
Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl, 810-870

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

North Africa?

Extent:

34 long lines; frame-ruled. Poetry set in two columns.