37. Menahic ul-usûl üd-diniye ila mevakıf il-makasıd ıl-ayniye Creator: Abdülbâkî Ârif Efendi, 1633-1713Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 1119 A.H. (1707) Language: Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Geographic region: Turkey Extent: Written in 19 long lines, ruled with a misṭarah.
38. Mukhtaṣar Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl. Creator: Ibn al-ʻImād, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1422-1482Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286?Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental ManuscriptsIbn al-ʻImād, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1422-1482Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286? Date: A.H. 880 (1475) Language: Arabic Extent: 29 long lines; frame ruled with a misṭarah. Some marginal headers and notes.
39. Multaqá al-abḥur. Creator: Ḥalabī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, -1549 or 1550Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 1691 Language: Arabic Extent: 15 long lines; border-ruled. Frame-ruled with misṭarah. Three pages ruled in 12 x 6 grid in red and black for table of contents (f. 1v-2v).
40. Nigāristān. Creator: Muʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th centuryDāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631?Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental ManuscriptsMuʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th centuryDāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631? Date: A.H. 979 (1572) Language: Persian Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 15 lines to a page with prose in long lines and poetry in two columns; border-ruled.
41. Nuzʹhat al-arvāḥ. Creator: Mīr Ḥusaynī Haravī, Ḥusayn ibn ʻĀlim, 1272 or 1273-approximately 1317Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 1500? to 1582 Language: Persian Geographic region: India? Extent: 25 long lines.
42. Pand-i ʻAṭṭār. Creator: ʻAṭṭār, Farīd al-Dīn, -approximately 1230Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 1820 Language: Persian Extent: 11 lines in two columns. Gold rules between and around columns.
43. Qaṭr al-nadā wa-ball al-ṣadā. Creator: Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: between 1600 and 1757 Language: Arabic Extent: 25 long lines.
44. Samaritan liturgy. Creator: Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 1266 A.H. (1850) Language: Samaritan Aramaic Extent: Written in 24 lines, some long, some in two columns.
45. Selections from the Qurʼān. Creator: Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: between 1500 and 1599? Language: Arabic Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 4 long lines, frame ruled.
46. Sharafnāmah. Creator: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: A.H. 1248 (1832) Language: Persian Geographic region: India? Extent: 13 lines in two columns with 26 lines at angles along the three outer margins; border-ruled
47. Shāhnāmah. Creator: FirdawsīFree Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 1575-1625? Language: Persian Geographic region: Iran? Extent: Preface: 25 long lines. Text: chiefly 25 lines in 4 columns with gold double rules between each column; border-ruled.
48. Shāhnāmah. Creator: FirdawsīFree Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: between 1600 and 1799? Language: Persian Geographic region: India? Extent: After the first opening, pages generally laid out in 25 lines per page in 4 columns with gold double rules between each column; border-ruled and pages frame-ruled with a misṭarah.