1. Calendar for year 1064 AH

Date:

1653

Language:

Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

Tables with a side column for marginalia.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Collection of prayers.

Date:

between 1725 and 1825?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

9 long lines, sometimes staggered, with some marginalia.

6. Collection of prayers.

Date:

between 1650 and 1800?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

11 long lines.

7. 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.

8. Commentary on the Sifra

Creator:

Author: Abraham ben David, of Posquières

Date:

1576–1600

Language:

Hebrew

Geographic region:

Turkey?

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Devotional Book.

Creator:

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

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

11 long lines.

12. Devotional book

Date:

17--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Turkey?

Extent:

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