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. Abvāb al-jinān. Creator: Vāʻiẓ Qazvīnī, Muḥammad Rafīʻ, 1617 or 1618-1678 or 1679 Language: Persian Geographic region: 1833. Extent: 16 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.
3. Ajbīyah. al-Salām la-ki yā Maryam. Creator: Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental ManuscriptsCoptic Church Date: between 1650 and 1750? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Egypt ; Extent: 10 long lines for Arabic text; 12 long lines for Coptic.
4. 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 1566J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College) Date: 1852 Language: Arabic Geographic region: Syria? Extent: 17 long lines
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. Anvār-i Suhaylī. Creator: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 1822 Language: Persian Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 27 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.
7. Anvār-i Suhaylī. Creator: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505 Date: 1816 Language: Persian Extent: 15 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords each verso, lower left.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Arabic-Persian dictionary. Creator: Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College) Date: 18--? Language: Persian Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 25 long lines
11. 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.
12. 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.
