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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413
Title:: Eight Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:: A collection of works mostly by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana (d. 1847) of Bombay who was the chief priest of the Shahanshahi Parsis, composed for Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) of the Madras Army who from 1827 to 1831 was Governor of Bombay. Mostly copied by the author whose full name is given he...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+94+vi (ff. 19-21; 26-30; 46-48, 58-60; 75-76 blank)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 1v-18v
Title:: Qiṣṣah-ʼi Sanjān
Scope & Content:: The traditional story of the settlement of the Parsis in India composed by Bahman ibn Kayqubād ibn Hurmuzyār Sanjānī at Nausari in AD 1600. John Malcolm’s signed note (f.18v): "An abstract of this poem has been made."
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-18v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 22r-25v
Title:: Fragment of a vocabulary of Avestan and Pazand words explained in Persian
Scope & Content:: Fragment of a vocabulary of Avestan and Pazand words explained in Persian. These correspond to the initial portion of the fourth section of the appendix to the Farhang-i Jahangīrī. Malcolm’s unsigned note (f. 22r): "Translated". Incomplete at end.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 22r-25v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 31v-45v
Title:: Farhang-i Shāhnāmah فرهنگ شاهنامه
Scope & Content:: Glossary of Persian, Pahlavi and Pazand words occurring in Firdawsi's Shāhnāmah compiled in 1179 yazdagirdi (1809) in Bombay by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana from various dictionaries especially for Major Malcolm who, according to the author, was very fond of reading the Shāhnāmah. Completed o...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 31v-45v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 49v-57r
Title:: Risālah-ʼi Nūshīrvān رسالهٔ نوشیروان
Scope & Content:: An account of the Sasanian ruler Khusraw I Anushirvan (r. 531-579) composed by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana in 1179 yazdagirdi (1809) at the request of Mr Major Malcolm Sahib who is described as generous to the poor, equal to kings, whose command extends from the land of Rum to India. Complet...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 49v-57r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 61r-68v
Title:: Hikāyat-i raftan-i Hārūn al-Rashīd barāyi ziyārāt-i dakhma-ʼi Nūshīrvān حکایت رفتن هارون الرشید برای زیارات دخمهٔ نوشیروان دادگر
Scope & Content:: On the visit of Harun al-Rashid to the tomb of Anurshirvan the just. Malcolm’s unsigned note (f. 61r): "Translated."
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 61r-68v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 69v-74v
Title:: Poem on the assembly of King Anushirvan
Scope & Content:: Part of a work in Persian verse on the assembly held by Anushirvan, his questions to Yunan, and Yunan’s replies. Commissioned by John Malcolm who is described as above and additionally as "in whose time the wolf and the lamb drink water and dwell together." Completed in Bombay on 12 Zi ‘l-Qaʻd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 69v-74v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 77v-84r
Title:: On the names of the Zoroastrian days, months and festivals
Scope & Content:: A work on the Zoroastrian day and month names and on the festivals of Noruz, Mihragan and Tirgan, compiled for Major Malcolm from Pahlavi and Pazand sources by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana. Annotations by Malcolm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 77v-84r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25423
Title:: Divan-i Baki - ديوان باقى
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Divan of Baki, the greatest lyric poet of the Ottoman Empire, written during his lifetime. This copy is more complete than the one found at Add MS 7922. The Divan begins with 27 kaside arranged according to the individuals praised: (I-IV) f 2v : In praise of Sultan S...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1004
Extent:: 1 text, 109 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25900
Title:: Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khamsah
Scope & Content:: The five poems making up the Khamsah by Niẓāmī Ganjavī (1140 or 41-1202 or 3), containing 19 whole-page miniatures, one (f. 41r) contemporary; 14 in the Herat later-Timurid style; and four (ff 234v, 245v, 250v and 271v) in the Tabriz/Safavid style of c. 1535-40. Three paintings ( ff. 121v, 161r ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1442-1443
Extent:: 319 folios

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