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1. IO Islamic 830

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 830
Title:
Two Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:
A volume containing two Zoroastrian works: (1) Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a prose version in Persian of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards (ff. 1v-51r); 
 (2) Ṣad...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+156

2. IO Islamic 830, ff 1v-51r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 830, ff 1v-51r
Title:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه
Scope & Content:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a prose version in Persian of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-51r

3. IO Islamic 830, ff 51v-155r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 830, ff 51v-155r
Title:
Ṣad dar صد در
Scope & Content:
Ṣad dar (صد در) a prose work consisting of 100 compulsory Zoroastrian rules
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 51v-155r

4. IO Islamic 1619

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1619
Title:
Parsi marriage ceremony
Scope & Content:
Nikāḥ bastan bi-ravish-i mubidān-i Hindūstān ( نکاح بستن بروش مبدان هندوستان), the Parsi marriage ceremony in Persian, copied by the brother of Dastūr Kāʼus (f. 6v) and given by Dastūr Kāʼus to Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811) who was Governor of Bombay from 1795 until his death in 1811. Dastūr Kā’us...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+10

5. IO Islamic 2506

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2506
Title:
Two Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:
A volume containing two separate Zoroastrian works bound together Contents: (1) Kitāb-i shāyist va nāshāyist (کتاب شایست و ناشایست), a prose work divided into 100 sections here called Ṣad dar nas̱r (صد در نثر) (ff. 1v-46v);
 (2) Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+78+iii+loose binding fragments. There are five blank leaves numbered ff. 46a-e between ff. 45 and 46

6. IO Islamic 2506, ff 1v-46v

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2506, ff 1v-46v
Title:
Kitāb-i shāyist va nāshāyist کتاب شایست و ناشایست
Scope & Content:
A prose work divided into 100 sections here called Ṣad dar nas̱r
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-46v

7. IO Islamic 2506, ff 47v-78r

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2506, ff 47v-78r
Title:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه
Scope & Content:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century, which describes his journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 47v-78r

8. IO Islamic 2718

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2718
Title:
Dasātīr-i āsmānī دساتیر آسمانی
Scope & Content:
The Dasātīr-i āsmānī (دساتیر آسمانی) by the philosopher priest Aẕar Kayvān (آذر کیوان) (1533-1618), a collection of invocations to 16 pre-Islamic prophets, including Zoroaster, beginning with Mahabad and concluding with the fifth Sasan who supposedly lived at the time of the Sasanian ruler Khusr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+111+v

9. IO Islamic 2769

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2769
Title:
Menoy i khrad in Persian
Scope & Content:
A Parsi-Persian version (ie in Persian but including passages in Middle-Persian language in Persian script) described as Kitāb-i Mīnū khirad (کئاب مینوخرد) of the Mēnōy ī khrad (‘Spirit of Wisdom’) originally composed in Pahlavi probably during the sixth century CE (f. 1v-75v)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+79

10. IO Islamic 2777

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2777
Title:
Three Parsi masnavis
Scope & Content:
A volume containing three masnavis copied probably in the 18thor early 19th century by Kayqubād son of Rustam Contents: (1) Amshāsfand’nāmah (امشاسفند نامه) , a poetical version of an older prose-treatise which describes the functions and duties of the thirty-one Amesha spantas (ff. 1r-45v); pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+127 (ff. 125-7 blank)

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