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Project / Collection Leyden Collection Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [32] Fonds

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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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