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Part of a dictionary of Pahlavi with transcriptions in Pazand and Persian explanations. The text is incomplete after f. 32v, breaking off mid-sentence. Former number: P&A CCXXV.
Part of a dictionary of Pahlavi with Persian transcriptions and translations (ff. 1v-49r), followed by an alphabetical table (ff. 49v-50r) and lists of the months, days etc. (ff. 50r-55r). Pahlavi colophon (ff. 55v-56v), dated Bombay on Bahram, Bahman month 1194 AY (1826), lists the scribe as ...
An interlinear Pahlavi-Persian vocabulary, unfinished at end. Gujarati translations have been added in pencil from folio 1v onwards. Former number: P&A CCXXVII.
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...
An extract from the Hümayun-name, the fables of Bidpa'i, freely translated from Persian, in which they are known as the Anvar-i Suhayli, by Ali İbn-i Salih. The current extract is the story of the hermit, the fox, the procurer and the wives of the shoemaker and the barber (the eighth story of Bab...
Trading permit in Persian issued by King Chandrawizaya (r. 1710-1731) of the kingdom of Mrauk U in Arakan in Myanmar (Burma), to the Armenian merchant Khwajeh Georgin in Chennaipattana (Madras), granting permission to trade in elephants and ivory, dated in the Burmese era 14 Sha‘bān sanat 1090 Ma...
This volume contains a tabular version of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). The formatting of the text and addition of Arabic equivalents was completed by Al-Ḥājj Mūsá al-Shar...
Farman of Shah Tahmasp to ʿAli Quli Khan Shamlu, copy
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Copy of a Farman of the Safavid ruler of Iran, Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1526) to ʿAlī Qulī Khān Shāmlū, ordering him to receive the Mughal Emperor Humayun on his entering Persian territory with instructions for his entertainment and onwarad passage to the Safavid court at Qazvin in AH 950 (1543/44).
A scroll measuring 9 feet by 5 1/2 ins. listing the caravanserais of Isfahan with an account of the various classes of merchants who use them. Undated but probably 18th century.
