Cataloging is complete for 102 manuscripts from the private collection of ʻImād Ḥikmat Kūrkīs in Baghdad (PLB IHG). Kūrkīs, who died in 2023, was the owner of Babylon Bookshop on al-Mutanabbi Street, historic center of bookselling in Baghdad. He also amassed a wide-ranging collection of manuscripts, from contemporary school notebooks to dozens of medieval and early modern Islamic manuscript fragments.

The notebooks display an interest in such topics as military geography (PLB IHG 00015), the Turkish-speaking minority in Iraq (PLB IHG 00014), and the modern history of Palestine (PLB IHG 00008, PLB IHG 00024), among others. Some of the fragments are likely quite old, such as an otherwise unknown text on the names of God attributed to an Ibn Ḥabīb (PLB IHG 00040). The oldest dated item is a fragment of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary on the Qurʼan from 1345 CE (PLB IHG 00098), while the newest is a collection of Neo-Aramaic prayers and hymns from 1998 (PLB IHG 00100). Languages in the collection include Arabic, Syriac (and Neo-Aramaic), and Turkish, with small amounts of French and Persian. View now