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11. Gulistān

Creator:
Saʻdī
Date:
17-- or 18--
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran?
Extent:
15 lines in long lines and two columns.

20. Tables for the risings and settings of the moon and planets.

Date:
1861
Language:
Persian
Extent:
Chiefly grids that are structured as follows: right-hand page: 5 long lines over 16 columns divided into sets of 2, 1, 4, 9 columns with columns divided into rows of 1 header row and three sets of 5 rows; left-hand page: 5 long lines over 18 columns divided into sets of 4, 6, 5, 1, 2 columns with columns divided into rows of 1 header row, three sets of 5 rows. All grids border ruled with heavier rules dividing the sets of columns and rows.

24. Bisnu Purān.

Date:
between 1800 and 1850?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
India
Extent:
15 long lines, border-ruled.

29. Shāhnāmah.

Creator:
Firdawsī
Date:
1849
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
India?
Extent:
Chiefly 25 lines in 4 columns; prose prefaces in 21 long lines; border-ruled.

30. Dīvān-i Viṣāl.

Creator:
Viṣāl Shīrāzī, Muḥammad Shafīʻ ibn Muḥammad Ismāʻīl, 1782 or 1783-1845 or 1846
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1800? and 1846
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran
Extent:
Two layouts: for the short poetry section (f. 4v-59r), 17 lines in two columns, often with a centered couplet and 26 marginal lines on two sides, written at angles; for the Bazm-i Viṣāl section (f. 61v-130v), 15 lines in two columns, with 10 lines in the fore-edge column written at an angle; rules between all columns and around textblock

34. Astronomical charts for Fatḥ-ʻAlī Shāh Qājār.

Creator:
Munajjim Bāshī, Muḥammad Riz̤á, active 18th century-19th century
Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Munajjim Bāshī, Muḥammad Riz̤á, active 18th century-19th century
Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937
Date:
between 1797 and 1834?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran
Extent:
Chiefly grids of varying numbers of columns and rows; 15 long lines on first opening.

35. Genealogical tables.

Creator:
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts
Date:
between 1797 and 1834?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran
Extent:
Numerous sets of two concentric circles with a name written inside the interior circle and color filled in between the two circles connected by lines to other circle-sets. Text appears at angles among the circles. The first two pages are introductory material written diagonally, f. 1v is fully written and f. 2r is written in a 150 x 130 mm box.

40. Devotional book.

Date:
between 1725 and 1825?
Language:
Persian
Extent:
Written in 11 long lines; border-ruled in a pear-shape.

42. Leaf from Yūsuf va Zulaykhā

Creator:
Jāmī, 1414-1492
Date:
between 1725 and 1825?
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran?
Extent:
14 lines in two columns on the recto and 8 lines in two columns on the verso with an illustration the width of both columns before the last two lines.