1. Abvāb al-jinān.

Creator:

Vāʻiẓ Qazvīnī, Muḥammad Rafīʻ, 1617 or 1618-1678 or 1679

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

1833.

Extent:

16 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.

2. Al-juzʼ al-awwal min kitāb Mashāriq al-anwār al-Qudsīyah fī bayān al-ʻuhūd al-Muḥammadīyah al-shahīr bi-al-ʻUhūd al-kubrá.

Creator:

Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad, approximately 1493-1565 or 1566
J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College)

Date:

1852

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Syria?

Extent:

17 long lines

3. Anvār-i Suhaylī.

Creator:

Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

1822

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

27 long lines; ruled with a misṭarah.

4. Anvār-i Suhaylī.

Creator:

Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505

Date:

1816

Language:

Persian

Extent:

15 long lines; border-ruled; catchwords each verso, lower left.

5. Arabic-Persian dictionary.

Creator:

Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?
J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College)

Date:

18--?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

Iran?

Extent:

25 long lines

6. Arabic-Syriac glossary.

Creator:

J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker Special Collections, Haverford College)

Date:

18--?

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Lebanon?

Extent:

19-22 lines in three columns.

7. 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.

8. Badr al-ṭāliʻ fī ḥall Jamʻ al-jawāmiʻ

Creator:

Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459
Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī, approximately 1327-1370

Date:

between 1400 and 1599?

Language:

Arabic

Extent:

17 lines per page; catchwords on versos, lower left.

9. Bahār-i dānish.

Creator:

ʻInāyat Allāh, -approximately 1671

Date:

17--?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

13 long lines; catchwords every verso.

10. Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb.

Creator:

Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1437 or 1438-1513

Date:

1747

Language:

Arabic

Geographic region:

Morocco?

Extent:

20 long lines; catchwords each verso, lower left.

11. Būstān.

Creator:

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

Date:

18--?

Language:

Persian

Geographic region:

India?

Extent:

13 long lines; border-ruled.

12. 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.