The collection is mostly written on European paper which ages approximately ranged from the early 1200s to middle 1900s. Their conditions are now pretty much critical and endanger: some are now seriously broken down, the writings are washed out and pages are ripped apart and rotten. The contents are surat pegang-gadai and mostly about Islamic texts: tafsir (the Qur'an interpretation), Qur'an, tauhid (unity of Allah), fiqh (Islamic rules), tasawuf or tarekat (Sufism or the path of Islamic mysticism), the Arabic grammar, and the Islamic narrative stories.