1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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.

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:

25 lines in four columns; border-ruled and columns ruled.

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

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.

8. Tārīkh-i Kashmīr.

Creator:

ʻAjīz, Narāyan Kaul, active 17th century-18th century
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

17--?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India

Extent:

13 long lines; border-ruled; second text: 8 long lines, border-ruled.

9. Vaqfnāmah-ʼi Shāh Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī.

Creator:

Ḥusayn I, Shah of Iran, 1668-1726
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

1706

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran

Extent:

5 long lines.