Dhoā:māhādhinje:ćhañṭe:vijaṇjī : manuscript, 1778-1865

Local paper. Beginning and end folios in brittle and poor condition, several folios repaired, many folios water-stained.

[ Ghaṭpāṭjī dhoā]

Prayers to be recited during the ghaṭpāṭ ceremony; prayer includes recitation of the name of Ismāʻīlī Imāms as well as those of Pīrs.

al- Majallah: wa-hiya taḥtawī ʻalá al-qawānīn al-sharʻīyah wa-al-aḥkām al-ʹadlīyah al-muṭābiqah lil-kutub al-fiqhīyah

ḥarrarathā lajnah muʼallafah min al-ʹulamāʼ al-muḥaqqiqīn wa-al-fuqahāʼ al-mudaqqiqīn wa-baʻda an waqaʻat ladá al-Bāb al-ʻĀlī mawqiʻ al-istiḥsān taʻallaqat al-irādah al-sanīyah bi-an takūna dustūr lil-ʻamal bihā.

Nova ac verissima Maris Caspii ante hac maximam fere partem nobis incogniti ac regionum adjacentium delineatio: jussu invictissimi principis Petri Alexii fil. magni Russorum imperatoris

immenso labore et maximis sumptibus facta, atque ex autographo in lucem edita per Reinerum Ottens geographum Amstelaedam ; Iacob Keyser sculp.

Kitāb ʻAjāyib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt : manuscript, [circa 1650-1700]

On wonders of creation.

The natural history of Aleppo: containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood : together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases, particularly of the plague

by Alex. Russell.

Refranes de Sancho Panza. Aventuras y desventuras, malicias y agudezas del escudero de don Quijote.

Mode of access: Internet.

La religión en el idioma; ensayo paremiológico.

"Obras consultadas": p. [247]

Akhtal, encomium Omayadarum e cod. Petropolit. et Lugdun, descriptum ed.,

Arabic and Latin on opposite pages.

Trattato delle sepolcrali iscrizioni in cufica, tamurea e nischia lettera da' Maomettani operate.

Mode of access: Internet.

The treatise of al-Jazarī on automata; leaves from a manuscript of the Kitāb fī maʻarifat al-hiyal al handasiya in the Museum of fine arts. Boston, and elsewhere,

Plates, accompanied by unnumbered leaf, laid in.

Aḥmad b. aṭ-Tayyib as-Saraḫsî,

Includes "Unpublished texts" (p. 127-135) in Arabic characters.

Scriptorum Arabum loci de Abbadidis nunc primum

Arabic texts followed by Latin translations.

[Calligraphic specimen, 1205?, i.e. 1790 or 1791?].

Exquisite album of calligraphy (muraqqaʻ or murakkaa) with design for a monumental inscription to appear in stone on a commemorative range marker (menzil taşı) of Bilâl Ağa (d.1807?), likely executed by Yesari Mehmed Esad Efendi (d.1798), the great Ottoman master of nastaʻlīq (talik).

Koran : manuscript, [1887 or 8].

Illumination on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings illuminated; gold dots and foliate flourishes mark verse and chapter endings; text enclosed in wide gold borders; illuminated marginal rosettes mark division of text into thirtieths (juzʼ) and sixtieths (ḥizb); gilder's name at bottom of p. [522]: dhahhabahu Bahāʼ al-Dīn bin Tawfīq; edges gilded with foliate patterns; green leather endpages painted with gold and silver sunburst designs; binding gold-stamped and painted in silver and gold foliate designs.