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Start Over Language Persian Holding institution Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections Date range 1650 CE to 1699 CE

1. 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
Extent:
One central image on each page; border-ruled.
Geographic region:
India?

2. 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
Extent:
21 long lines; border-ruled.
Geographic region:
India?

3. 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
Extent:
9 lines chiefly in two columns with the first, fourth, and seventh lines as a centered, single column.
Geographic region:
India?

4. 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
Extent:
18 lines in two columns; some marginalia.
Geographic region:
Iran?

5. Kullīyāt.

Creator:
Saʻdī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1550 and 1650?
Language:
Persian
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.
Geographic region:
Iran?

6. Shāhnāmah.

Creator:
Firdawsī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1600 and 1799?
Language:
Persian
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.
Geographic region:
India?

7. Shāhnāmah.

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

8. Shāhnāmah.

Creator:
Firdawsī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1600 and 1799?
Language:
Persian
Extent:
25 lines in four columns; border-ruled and columns ruled.