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Folio 1b which begins Muḥammad al-Āqkirmānī's Risālah fī ḥukm al-siwāk (Essay on the Regimen of the Toothbrush). The beige glossy paper has horizontal laid lines, single chain lines, and is watermarked. The text is written in medium-small, careful ta‘liq script, black ink with headings in red and with red overlinings.
MS A 19.1, fol. 1b
Folio 1b from MS A 25 which features the title folio of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's Muṣannaf fī al-ghāliyah (A Treatise on Ghaliyah). The biscuit, glossy paper has horizontal laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks (initials). The paper is waterstained, especially at the top. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script. The text area is frame-ruled. Black ink was used with headings red and red shading of some words.
MS A 35, fol. 1b
Folio 2a from MS A 25 which features the second and final folio of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's Muṣannaf fī al-ghāliyah (A Treatise on Ghaliyah). The biscuit, glossy paper has horizontal laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks (initials). The paper is waterstained, especially at the top. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script. The text area is frame-ruled. Black ink was used with headings red and red shading of some words.
MS A 35, fol. 2a
Folio 30a from MS A 35 which features the colophon of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's Manhal fī al-kunāfah wa-al-qaṭā'if (A Pool concerning 'Kunafah' and 'Qata'if'). The biscuit, glossy paper has horizontal laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script showing some North African influence using black ink with headings red.
MS A 35, fol. 30a

Page 2 featuring the opening of Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī's Nuzhat al-albāb fī-mā lā yūjadu fī kitāb (The Delight of Hearts concerning What is Not Found in a Book). The yellowed, semi-glossy paper has visible laid lines and single chain lines and is watermarked. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script, using black ink with headings in red.
MS A 51, p. 2
Page 3 of Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī's Nuzhat al-albāb fī-mā lā yūjadu fī kitāb (The Delight of Hearts concerning What is Not Found in a Book). The yellowed, semi-glossy paper has visible laid lines and single chain lines and is watermarked. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script, using black ink with headings in red.
MS A 51, p. 3
Folio 36b from Avicenna's Tadāruk anwā‘ al-khaṭā’ al-wāqi‘ fī al-tadbīr (Rectifying Mistakes Occurring in Regimen) featuring the colophon written in the margin. The thin, glossy, fibrous, ivory paper has wavy laid lines. The text is written in a professional ta‘liq script, in black ink with red overlinings.
MS A 73, fol. 36b
Folio 74a from MS A 87 featuring the beginning of Tadbīr al-aṭfāl min Kitāb al-Bayān (The Management of Infants, taken from the 'Book of Explanation'). The ivory paper is thick and stiff, with visible laid lines and single chain lines. The text is written is a medium-large, fairly compact naskh script in black ink.
MS A 87, fol. 74a

Page 1 of MS A 89 which begins al-Tamakrūtī's al-Rawḍ al-yāni‘ fī aḥkām al-tazwīj wa-ādāb al-majāmi‘ (The Ripe Garden on the Principles of Marriage and the Proper Conduct of Sexual Intercourse). The coarse ivory paper has vertical laid lines single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a North African (Maghribi) script using black ink with headings in red.
MS A 89, p. 1
Page 185 of MS A 89 which features the beginning of al-Shayzarī's Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ fīi asrār al-nikīḥ (The Elucidation of the Secrets of Sexual Intercourse). The coarse ivory paper has vertical laid lines single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a North African (Maghribi) script using black ink with headings in red.
MS A 89, p. 185
Page 118 from MS A 92 featuring the opening of Dā’ūd ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī's al-adhhān fī aṣlāḥ al-abdān (The Delight of the Minds Concerning the Improvement of Bodies). The cream paper has laid lines and single chain lines. The text is written in a medium-small naskh script using black ink with headings in red.
MS A 92, p. 118
Folio 109b from MS P 16.1 which features an untitled treatise on foodstuffs by Ghiyāth al-Dīn ‘Ali al-Iṣfahānī. The glossy, beige paper is thin and rather brittle, with very wavy laid lines. The text is written in a medium-large nasta‘liq script, widely-spaced and carefully rendered. Black ink with headings in red.
MS P 16.1, fol. 109b

Folio 110a from MS P 16.1 which features an untitled treatise on foodstuffs by Ghiyāth al-Dīn ‘Ali al-Iṣfahānī. The folio consists of visual acuity diagrams. The glossy, beige paper is thin and rather brittle, with very wavy laid lines.
MS P 16.1, fol. 110a
Folio 122a from Muḥammad Mahdī ibn ‘Alī Naqī's Zād al-musāfarīn (Provisions for Travelers) featuring the colophon. The ivory, thin, semi-glossy paper has visible laid lines, single chain lines, and watermarks. The text is written in a medium-small, widely spaced, naskh script in black ink with headings in red and red overlinings.
MS P 23, fol. 122a
Folio 3b from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring a full-page painting of a turbanned and seated ruler surrounded by courtiers painted in a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 3b
Folio 4a from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring a three-quarter-page painting of a court scene with a female entertainer in the lower right. The seated and turbanned ruler can be see in the upper left. The painting is a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 4a

Folio 5a from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring an illustration on lower half of page of the diagnosis of lovesickness by feeling the pulse. The painting is a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 5a
Folio 5b from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring a three-quarter-page painting, in opaque watercolors and gilt, of a woman inside a house lying on the ground with arms extended, her head and shoulders on a bolster pillow while a turbaned figure, possibly a physician, walks away. The painting is a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 5b
Folio 7b from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring a full-page painting, in opaque watercolors and gilt, of a woman smoking a waterpipe with attendants. The painting is a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 7b
Folio 8b from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring a full-page painting, in opaque watercolors and gilt, of dancing girl with musicians performing before a seated turbanned male. The painting is a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 8b

Folio 9b from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring a full-page painting, in opaque watercolors and gilt (slightly defaced), of a group of women with an deer in foreground. The painting is a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 9b
Folio 10b from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring an illustration of three women, in opaque watercolors with gilt. The painting is a variety of opaque watercolors with gilt framed in narrow borders of blue, red, black, and gilt lines enclosing a vine with leaves outlined in red and green. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fol. 10b
Folios 1b and 2a from Ladhdhat al-nisā’ (The Enjoyment of Women) featuring the illuminated opening with wide ornamental borders painted in blue, red, green and brown watercolors with gilt, framing the area of text. The gray-brown, semi-glossy paper has horizontal, sagging laid lines. The text is written in a fine professional medium-small ta‘liq script, in dense black ink with headings in red.
MS P 24, fols. 1b-2a
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