1. Dīvān-i Khusraw va ʻIṣmat. Creator: Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325ʻIṣmat Bukhārāʼī, -1436 or 1437Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental ManuscriptsAmīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325ʻIṣmat 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.
2. 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.
3. Shāhnāmah. Creator: FirdawsīFree 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.
4. Shāhnāmah. Creator: FirdawsīFree 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.
5. Shāhnāmah. Creator: FirdawsīFree 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.
6. Tīmūrnāmah. Creator: Hātifī, -1520 or 1521Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: 991 AH (1583) Language: Persian Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 12 lines in two columns; border-ruled.
7. Yūsuf va Zulaykhā. Creator: Jāmī, 1414-1492Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts Date: A.H. 988 (1580) Language: Persian Geographic region: Iran? Extent: 12 lines in two columns; border-ruled.
8. Kullīyāt. Creator: Khāqānī, Afz̤al al-Dīn Shirvānī, approximately 1126-1198 or 1199Free 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.
9. Anvār-i Suhaylī. Creator: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505Free 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.
10. 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.
11. Kitāb-i Sharafʹnāmah-ʼi Iskandarī. Creator: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203Free 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
12. Gulistān. Creator: SaʻdīFree 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.