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3. Arabic poem with painting

Date:
18--?
Language:
Arabic
Extent:
16 lines in two columns with a third outside marginal column of 11 angled lines; marginalia.

6. Calligraphic album.

Creator:
Riżā, Ḥasan, active 1889
Date:
1889 or 1890
Language:
Arabic
Geographic region:
Turkey?
Extent:
Three layouts: 1) Three larger lines with two sets of 4 or 5 lines between each set of larger lines, 2) Two larger lines at the head and tail of the page with 7 to 11 lines in the middle, 3) Four larger lines with three sets of two lines in between. All pages border-ruled and framed in blue paper.

7. Collection of Persian poetry

Creator:
Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, approximately 1253-1325
Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century
Salmān Sāvajī, -1376
Bisāṭī Samarqandī, -1411
ʻIrāqī, Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm, -1289?
Ibn Yamīn, Fakhr al-Dīn Maḥmūd, 1287 or 1288-1367 or 1368
Ḥakīm Tirmiz̲ī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century
Busḥāq Aṭʻimah Shīrāzī, Ḥallāj, active 15th century
Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203
Date:
1432
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
Iran?
Extent:
21 long lines; chiefly in two columns; no catchwords; border-ruled.

8. Collection of Persian poetry.

Date:
before 1756
Language:
Persian
Geographic region:
India?
Extent:
Written mostly in 2 columns of 14 lines alternating between horizontal and diagonal, a few pages with long lines instead; text block framed in ink.