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11. MSS Avestan 21

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 21
Title:
Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:
Khordah Avesta dated 10 Ardibihisht 1093 AY (1723). Contents comprise: Introductory prayers; five Niyāyish; Āfarīns: Gāthā, Gahanbār, and Dahmān; five Gāhs; Yashts: Hōrmazd, Haft Amshāspand, Ardabahisht, 2 Srōsh, Hōm, Vanand, Bahrām; Bāj, Nīrangs, Avestan fragments and Sīrōzahs. Copied in 2 ha...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
1723
Extent:

Codex; ff. 277+i

12. MSS Avestan 25

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 25
Title:
Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:
The Khordah Avesta in Avestan with Persian translation. Contents: Introductory prayers, 5 Nyāishes, Hormazd Yasht; Āfrīnagāns: Gahanbār, Gāthā and Dahman. ff. iv verso-1r: explanatory note and contents in Persian. Colophon (f. 84v): copied for Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay 1795-1811) ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1808
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+87

13. MSS Avestan 28

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 28
Title:
Rivayats in Pahlavi and Persian
Scope & Content:
Pahlavi and Persian rivayats. Former number: Z&P XXVIII.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+178+iii+iii

14. MSS Avestan 29

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 29
Title:
Yasna
Scope & Content:
Yasna with interlinear Pahlavi and New Persian versions. Copied in Rustampura, Surat, by Faramarz, son of Asfandiyarji ibn Naoroji of Surat, for Behdin Faramarzji Cowasji Banaji on Mihr (12th day) of Shahrivar 1194 AY qadimi, Samvat 1881, Saka era 1746 (1825). Former number: Z&P XXIX.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
1825
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+452+iv

15. Or 404

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 404
Title:
Majmu''a - مجموعه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of five different works, most of them relating to linguistics and language usage: ff 6v-27v : Favāᵓid-i Turkī, grammar of Turkic dialects explained in Persian and composed by Ashur Beg. The author enumerates the following dialects: Turani, Uzbeki, Irani, Qizil...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
1253
Extent:
Codex, 110 ff

16. Or 1374

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1374
Title:
Dīvān-i Navā’ī / ديوان نوائي
Scope & Content:
The Divan of Nava'i without preface. The first five ghazals, out of twenty-two rhyming in alif, are the same as in Or. 401 and are in the same order. The rest of the volume shows a considerable degree of agreement with the same copy, from which it chiefly differs by frequent omissions. Content...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai, English, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Codex, ff. 189

17. Or 6471

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6471
Title:
Treatise on magic, astrology and the calendar
Scope & Content:
An Armenian manuscript containing: ff.1r-261v A treatise on magic, astrology and the calendar. The individual texts are very varied and feature tables and decorations. Highlights include: ff.40r-45v Full-page pictures of the zodiacal signs ff.48r-95v Tables of five columns, four rows (not i...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 item, 263 ff

18. Or 6573

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6573
Title:
Qur’ān with commentary
Scope & Content:
An eleventh- or twelfth-century Qur’ān, from Iraq or Persia, written on paper in the Qarmatian style of eastern kufic script. The Persian commentary is written in a naskh hand and is possibly slightly later. Qur’ān contains sections (juz’) 16-18 which corresponds to Sūrahs 18.75 - 25.22.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Persian
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. 246

19. Or 16044

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16044
Title:
[Religious treatise in Chagatai]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a didactic religious treatise in Chagatai, concerning aspects of Islamic doctrine and ethics. The author is not named. The text features interlinear Persian translations of selected words throughout. Among the other contents of this volume include a passage in Persian acros...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 text, 49 ff

20. Or 16045

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16045
Title:
Collection of two Chagatai texts
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a religious didactic work in Chagatai, as well as a selection of ghazals and quatrains by Mir Ali Shir Nava’i.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai and Persian
Date Range:
late 12th century
Extent:
Codex, 119 ff