25. Iqbālnāmah-ʼi Jahāngīrī.

Creator:

Muʻtamad Khān, Muḥammad Sharīf, -1639 or 1640
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

16--?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

21 long lines; border-ruled.

26. Iʻtiqādīyah-i Mullā Ṭughrā.

Creator:

Ṭughrā-yi Mashhadī, active 17th century
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1650 and 1710

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

9 lines chiefly in two columns with the first, fourth, and seventh lines as a centered, single column.

27. Khamsah.

Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1750 and 1850?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

Chiefly 21 lines in 4 columns; border-ruled.

28. Kitāb-i Sharafʹnāmah-ʼi Iskandarī.

Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1550 and A.H. 1029 (1619)

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

21 lines in four columns; border-ruled

29. Ktaba d-zalgē wšūrara d-šetēsē ʻidtanayetē.

Creator:

Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1700 and 1899?

Language:

Classical Syriac

Extent:

22 long lines.

30. Kullīyāt.

Creator:

Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī, approximately 1126-1198 or 1199
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1550 and 1650?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

18 lines in two columns; some marginalia.

31. Kullīyāt.

Creator:

Saʻdī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1550 and 1650?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

Chiefly 19 lines in two columns with a third column of 12 short, angled lines along the outside, fore-edge margin; prose in 19 long lines with angled marginal line.

32. Laylī va Majnūn.

Creator:

Maktabī Shīrāzī, -1510 or 1511
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1800 and 1850?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

15 lines in two columns; catchwords every verso, lower left.

33. Majmaʻ al-furs-i Surūrī dar bayān-i lughat-i Fārsī.

Creator:

Surūrī, Muḥammad Qāsim ibn Ḥājjī Muḥammad, 17th century
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1030 (1620)

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

19 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.

34. Majmūʻah-ʼi Bhagat Māl.

Creator:

Nābhādāsa, active 1585
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1832 and 1846

Language:

Indic languages

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

Several different layouts: f. 1r-7v in 16 long lines; f. 8v-21v in 16-18 lines with 6 lines in three sets of two inset on each page; f. 24v-51v in 13 long lines; f. 54r-67v, 76r-119v, and 124r-127v laid out in landscape, with the text running parallel to the gutter, generally with two lines inset at the head of the page, then 7 lines in two columns; f. 69r-75v, 8 lines in two columns written diagonally; f. 77r-79v written in 12 lines divided into three groups of four lines each; f. 119r-123v, also in landscape, written as blocks of prose, 9 lines to a page.

35. Majmūʻah.

Creator:

Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
Awjalī, Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ ibn Salīm, active approximately 17th century
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
Awjalī, Muḥammad al-Ṣāliḥ ibn Salīm, active approximately 17th century

Date:

between 1800 and 1899?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

West Africa?

Extent:

6-14 long lines; many interlinear glosses.

36. Majmūʻah.

Creator:

Zarnūjī, Burhān al-Dīn, active 12th century-13th century
Turkistānī, ʻAlī al-Dīn
Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn
Zarnūjī, Burhān al-Dīn, active 12th century-13th century
Turkistānī, ʻAlī al-Dīn
Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn
Ṭanṭarānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Razzāq, active 11th century
Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, active 1261

Date:

between 1675 and 1750?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

Prose sections, 19 long lines; poetry sections, 15 lines in two columns or with staggered lines. Frame ruled with a misṭarah.