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1. Arabic MS 5 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A beautiful copy of the famous Dīwān of al-Mutanabbī.

2. Arabic MS 6 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A well-written copy of the Qur'an, with gilt and coloured rulings, broad margins, and fine Naskh script; copied in the 18th…

3. Arabic MS 59 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A treatise on the game of chess by the Sufi writer and poet Ibn Abī Ḥajalah (d. 1375) entitled Unmūdhaj al-qitāl fī naql…

4. Arabic MS 60 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Manuscript copy of the fable collection entitled Kalīlah wa-Dimnah by Abū al-Maʿālī Abd Allāh Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ dated 1240 AH…

5. Arabic MS 97 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A work on calligraphy by Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Ṭībī

6. Arabic MS 100 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A work on various vices affecting human life, by an unknown author. It was copied in the 18th century and according to Mingana,…

7. Arabic MS 109 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: A work containing popular tales relating to the times of the ʿAbbasid caliphs and the influential Persian Barmakid family. It…

8. Arabic MS 232 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Commentary by Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʿīd Ǧīwan the a 13th-century Islamic legal work Manār al-Anwār by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad…

9. Arabic MS 552 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

10. Arabic MS 615 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

11. Arabic MS 676 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Composite manuscript containing a treatise on music and an astrological work.

12. Arabic MS 687 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

13. Arabic MS 688 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Fragment of the Qurʾān on thick parchment and in large Kufi characters. Probably compiled from leaves from various old codices.

14. Arabic MS 691 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: Volume containing Juzʿ 4 of the Qurʾān (Sūrah 3:92-4:23), copied around 1000 CE. It is written in large golden letters, in a…

15. Arabic MS 704 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

16. Arabic MS 738 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

17. Arabic MS 760 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The first of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʾranic manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and…

18. Arabic MS 761 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The second of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʾranic manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and…

19. Arabic MS 762 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The third of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʾranic manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and…

20. Arabic MS 763 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Contents:: The fourth of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʾranic manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and…