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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 52r-58v
Title:: A collection of hymns
Scope & Content:: A collection of hymns to the sun, Gushtasp and other works in Persian, Avestan, and a mixture of other languages
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 52r-58v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11967, ff 59v-72v
Title:: Mukāshafāt-i Āzar Kayvān مکاشفات آذر کیوان
Scope & Content:: Revelations ascribed to Aẕar Kayvān in Persian in mixed prose and verse (ff. 59v-71r); followed (ff. 71v-72v) by an unfinished treatise: Zawrah-i bāstānī-i vakhshūr shit Zardusht (زورهٔ باستانی وخشور شت زردشت)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 59v-72v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, ff 66v-67v
Title:: اين فصول از بعض كتب ستاذ كبير جابر Īn fuṣūl az ba‘z̤ī kutub-i ustaẕ kabīr Jābir Jābir ibn Ḥayyān جابر بن حيان
Scope & Content:: Five passages in Persian supposedly taken from the writings of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. The main bulk of the corpus of texts attributed to this semi-legendary figure, however, are thought to have been composed between the second half of the 9th century and first half 10th century. Since this text begin...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: ff. 66v-67v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 16045 (1)
Title:: Nuskha-’i sharif va mukhtasar-i latif - نسخۀ شريف ومختصر لطيف
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a religious didactic work in Chagatai. The above title is taken from the colophon, and the correct title, if indeed there is one, has not been identified. Unusually, the anonymous author proceeds directly from the doxology to the exposition of his didactic message. The text ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:: 1174
Extent:: 1 text, 114 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B VI
Title:: Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Khordah Avesta (‘little Avesta’), described as Kitāb zand avastā, a collection of prayers in Avestan, lacking the first folio. A Persian colophon (f. 67r) gives the date as Aneran (30th day), Ardibihisht (2nd month,) 1042 AY (1673), and the scribe’s name as Herbad Hormazyar Faramu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: 1673
Extent:: Codex. :ff. iii+67+iii

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B VII
Title:: Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:: The Ṣad dar (صد در) attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh. A popular version of the 100 Zoroastrian rules composed in Persian verse in Kerman in 1494 (14 Muharram 900 AH) at the request of Shahriyār ibn Ardashīr ibn Bahrāmshāh. Copied in Surat for the English Agent (modī Angrezī) Kanūrjī Nāhānah...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1674
Extent:: Codex; ff. 65

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 B XV
Title:: Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:: The Ṣad dar (صد در), here called Ṣad dar naẓm, attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh, a popular version of the 100 Zoroastrian rules composed in Persian verse in Kerman in 1494 (14 Muharram 900 AH) at the request of Shahriyār ibn Ardashīr ibn Bahrāmshāh. Copy dated 20 Muharram 1050 (12 May 1640)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 20 Muharram 1050 (May 1640)
Extent:: Codex; ff. 65

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 230
Title:: Videvdād sādah
Scope & Content:: Videvdād sādah. Copied by Mihrbān son of Anūshīrvān son of Bahrām Shāh in Yazd on 15 Isfand 1016 Yazdagirdi (1647), for a Zoroastrian of Kirman, Marzbān son of Sandal son of Khusraw. Lacks first page and several at end. Text begins on f. 2r Colophon in form of 44 Persian verses (f.151r) Illus...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: 1647
Extent:: 272 ff.

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