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311. 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

312. IO Islamic 2617

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 2617
Title:
[Various texts in Javanese and Arabic]
Scope & Content:
[Various texts in Javanese and Arabic] A: ff. 1v-10v. Various prayers, in Javanese and Arabic with Javanese titles. B: ff. 11v-69v. Arabic text on the qualities and use of stones and jewels, with an interlinear version in Javanese. The Arabic text and Javanese translation have many errors. Fo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Extent:
111 folios

313. 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

314. 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

315. 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)

316. Loan MS 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Loan MS 131
Title:
Psalter-Hours (The 'Burdett Psalter-Hours')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. [1r-6v]: Calendar, including English saints Edward the Confessor (13 October), Edmund the Martyr (20 November) and Thomas Becket (29 December), and with the early addition of Edmund Rich (16 November); added obits (see Provenance). ff. [7r-12r]: Prefatory cycle of miniatures. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1280-c. 1290
Extent:
1 volume

317. MS Mus. 1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1
Title:
Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music
Scope & Content:
The 'Purcell/Draghi keyboard manuscript' contains, on folios 1v-12, music by or arranged by Henry Purcell and in his autograph. Reversing the volume, folios 42-12v are by, and almost certainly in the hand of, Giovanni Battista Draghi. Folio 1r contains a musical setting of Draghi’s address in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1700
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 43)

318. MS Mus. 1591

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1591
Title:
My Ladye Nevells Booke
Scope & Content:
William Byrd (b. circa 1540, d.1623): ‘My Ladye Nevells Booke’, a collection of music for keyboard; 1591. In the hand of John Baldwin, with small, possibly autograph, corrections. Written in ink throughout, on six-line staves, in a calligraphic hand. The manuscript contains 42 numbered pieces fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1591
Extent:
1 item

319. MS Mus. 1707

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1707
Title:
Claudio Monteverdi: letter to the Marchese Enzo Bentivoglio
Scope & Content:
Autograph. The letter, written from Venice, concerns aspects of the music for the festivities at the marriage of the Duke Odoardo Farnese to Margherita, second daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Parma the following year. Bentivoglio had commissioned Monteverdi to write t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18 September 1627
Extent:

2 folios

320. MSS Avestan 19

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 19
Title:
Menoy i khrad followed by fragments of Afrins and Aogemadaeca
Scope & Content:
The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Mēnōy ī khrad followed by fragments of Āfrīns and Aogemadaēca Contents: (1) The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Pahlavi Mēnōy ī khrad composed by Naryosangh Dhaval in the12th century. Although it lacks the first folio containing Naryosangh’s introduction, the...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1521
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+149 (f. 149 blank)

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