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Project / Collection India Office Library Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) Level [32] Fonds

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 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

3. IO Islamic 2448

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2448
Title:
Javanese and Arabic texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts in Arabic and Javanese. The Arabic texts have been catalogued in Loth, 1877 (Loth 1048), and see child records for further details. The contents are also described in Ricklefs & Voorhoeve (1977: 57) as follows: A: ff. 1-24. Arabic text, with marginal annotat...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item; 126 folios

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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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