1. 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

2. 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.

3. Hādhā kitāb qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ.

Creator:

Juvayrī, Muḥammad, active 10th century

Date:

1574

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran ?

Extent:

15 long lines.

4. Khamsah.

Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

Date:

16--?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

21 lines in four columns; catchwords each verso, lower left.

5. Khamsah.

Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203

Date:

990-992 A.H. (1582-1584)

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Shīrāz

Extent:

Chiefly written in 20 lines in four columns, some lines at angles.

6. Kitāb-i Sharafʹnāmah-ʼi Iskandarī.

Creator:

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
Free 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

7. Kullīyāt-i Jāmī.

Creator:

Jāmī, 1414-1492

Date:

984 (1576)

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

Written in 25 long lines or 25 lines in four columns.

8. 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

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

18 lines in two columns; some marginalia.

9. Kullīyāt.

Creator:

Saʻdī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1550 and 1650?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

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.

10. Persian calligraphy and illustration album.

Date:

1650-1750?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

Various layouts, each work framed and mounted on an orange leaf.

11. Shāhnāmah.

Creator:

Firdawsī
Free 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.

12. 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.