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1. Anvār-i Suhaylī.

Creator:
Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
1822
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran?
Extent:
27 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.

2. Astronomical charts for Fatḥ-ʻAlī Shāh Qājār.

Creator:
Munajjim Bāshī, Muḥammad Riz̤á, active 18th century-19th century
Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Munajjim Bāshī, Muḥammad Riz̤á, active 18th century-19th century
Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937
Date:
between 1797 and 1834?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran
Extent:
Chiefly grids of varying numbers of columns and rows; 15 long lines on first opening.

3. Būstān.

Creator:
Saʻdī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
18--?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
India?
Extent:
13 long lines; border-ruled.

4. Deccani portrait album.

Creator:
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1670 and 1699?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
India?
Extent:
One central image on each page; border-ruled.

5. Dīvān-i Khusraw va ʻIṣmat.

Creator:
Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325
ʻIṣmat Bukhārāʼī, -1436 or 1437
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325
ʻIṣmat Bukhārāʼī, -1436 or 1437
Date:
between 1550? and 1646
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran?
Extent:
Chiefly 13 lines in two columns; sometimes the short lines are centered; extensive marginalia.

6. Dīvān-i Viṣāl.

Creator:
Viṣāl Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Shafīʻ ibn Muḥammad Ismāʻīl, 1782 or 1783-1845 or 1846
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1800? and 1846
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran
Extent:
Two layouts: for the short poetry section (f. 4v-59r), 17 lines in two columns, often with a centered couplet and 26 marginal lines on two sides, written at angles; for the Bazm-i Viṣāl section (f. 61v-130v), 15 lines in two columns, with 10 lines in the fore-edge column written at an angle; rules between all columns and around textblock

7. Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.

Creator:
Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
17--?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
India?
Extent:
15 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

8. Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.

Creator:
Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
17--?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
India?
Extent:
11 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

9. Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn.

Creator:
Muḥyī Lārī, -1526 or 1527
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
1566 or 1567
Language:
Persian
Extent:
15 lines, chiefly in two columns; border-ruled.

10. Genealogical tables.

Creator:
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1797 and 1834?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran
Extent:
Numerous sets of two concentric circles with a name written inside the interior circle and color filled in between the two circles connected by lines to other circle-sets. Text appears at angles among the circles. The first two pages are introductory material written diagonally, f. 1v is fully written and f. 2r is written in a 150 x 130 mm box.

11. Gulistān.

Creator:
Saʻdī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1700 and 1799?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran?
Extent:
Chiefly 14 long lines, sometimes half the page in diagonal or perpendicular and half the page straight across; border-ruled.

12. 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.