Language: Persian / Holding institution: Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections / Spatial: Iran? - Digital Library of the Middle East

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Creator:: Muʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th century
Dāmād, Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad, -1631?
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Muʻīn Juvaynī, active 14th century
Dāmād, 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.

Creator:: Firdawsī
Free 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.

Creator:: Firdawsī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:: A.H. 996 (1588)
Language:: Persian
Geographic region:: Iran?
Extent:: 25 lines in four columns; border-ruled and columns ruled.

Creator:: Firdawsī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:: A.H. 1000 (1592)
Language:: Persian
Geographic region:: Iran?
Extent:: 33 lines in four columns; border-ruled and columns ruled.

Creator:: Firdawsī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:: between 1650? and 1738
Language:: Persian
Geographic region:: Iran?
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.

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