Composite manuscript with two works. The first on ritual practice with chapters on cleanliness, prayers, fasting, alms giving, pilgrimage, marriage, legal guardianship, and inheritance; the second text an astronomical treatise by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī.
Copy of the Gospels, written in canonical order, with rubrics for liturgical readings; table of contents in order of the liturgical year, (f. 1v-6r); short text read in preparation for the Gospel, (f. 7r). After the Gospels, there is a note concerning their composition.
The four Gospels, text of the first Gospel begins abruptly with Matthew 2:21. Copy is laid out in parallel columns of Syriac (left) and Arabic Garshuni (right). Includes rubrics for liturgical readings and a table of contents in the order of the liturgical year (f. 1r-2v). This copy was made from a manuscript dated 1209 (f. 424v). Ink bleed through on many pages.
14th-century copy of a late 13th-century manual on the mathematics of the Islamic law of inheritance, in the form of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on the Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah of 12th-century legal and mathematical scholar Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī.
Commentary on the summary of arithmetical operations by the late 13th- and early 14th-century scholar Ibn al-Bannāʼ. Demonstrates with examples the calculation of sums involving fractional numbers and square roots. Extensive marginal notes on a few leaves (p. 20-35). The first leaf is missing and the text ends abruptly. Several leaves have restored outer margins. Pages 189-194 missing text because of conservation after water damage.
Unbound copy of the story of the People of the Cave, known in other traditions as the Seven Sleepers. The text begins with "Qāla Ibn ʻAbbās", and is a retelling and explanation of the tale as it appears in the Qurʼān in sūrah 18 at the end. The final leaf is smaller paper (155 x 130 (140 x 110) mm); the recto of that leaf and the previous half page is an addition in a different hand with the verso of the final leaf written in Persian.
History of Kashmir and surrounding areas. Begins with a eulogy on Lord William Cavendish Bentick and is dedicated to William Augustus Brooke of the East India Company, whose title was Ḥishmat al-Dawlah. There is a preface by the author in which he relates how he met Brooke and where he was sent on missions. He also mentions that this book is largely based on an earlier history of Kashmir, "Gawhār-i tuḥfah-ʼi ʻĀlim Shāhī" by Muḥammad Badīʻ al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Aslam and on meetings with, and a book by Sayyid Ghulām-Ḥusayn Khān. The work is divided into four chapters: 1. Kashmir, 2. Tibet and Kalmakistan including an account of Mānī, the painter, and founder of Manicheism, 3. Badakhshan and 4. highlands of Afghanistan
Eastern Syriac rite including liturgical prayers for various feasts and Sundays; begins abruptly; many prayers attributed to Eliyá III, Catholicos of the Church of the East (died 1190); also includes a prayer for the lack of rain (f. 100v-101v). Many pages repaired along top and gutter.