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

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

One central image on each page; border-ruled.

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

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

21 long lines; border-ruled.

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

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

9 lines chiefly in two columns with the first, fourth, and seventh lines as a centered, single column.

4. Shāhnāmah.

Creator:

Firdawsī
Free 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.

5. 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.

6. Shāhnāmah.

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.