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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D II
Title:: Le Roman de Tristan en prose
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the second part of Le Roman de Tristan en prose, attributed to Hélie de Borron (fl. 13th century), and written in Middle French prose. Contents: ff. 2r-315r: Le Roman de Tristan en prose, written in Middle French, imperfect at the beginning, lacking the fir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:: Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:: A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 222
Title:: Miscellaneous Zoroastrian treatises
Scope & Content:: A collection of miscellaneous Zoroastrian treatises in Persian consisting of: A history in Persian of the ancient kings of Persia, from Gayumars down to the Arab Conquest, beginning quite abruptly (ff. 1v-15r); Continuous with the last, of which, apparently, it forms part. An account of the follo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+139

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 223
Title:: Khordah Avesta with Persian translation
Scope & Content:: The Avestan Khordah Avasta with Persian translation and commentary. Contents include: Ashem vohu and Yatha ahu vairyo prayers, followed by the Kushti nirang, the Bāj-i ṭaʻām khvurdan (grace before meat), etc. (ff. 1v-16r); Niyāyishs: Khvurshīd, Mihr and Māh (ff. 16r-48v); Gāhs: Hāvan, Rapithwin (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+351

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 224
Title:: Farhang-i lughāt-i kitāb mustaṭāb-i Dasātīr
Scope & Content:: Farhang-i lughāt-i kitāb mustaṭāb-i Dasātīr, a dictionary of rare words occurring in the Dasātīr-i āsmānī attributed to the philosopher priest Aẕar Kayvān (1533-1618). Completed by Siyāvakhsh son of Ūrmazdyār Siyāvakhsh on Dīn (6th day) of Ādar in the year 1260 AH (May 1844). Former number: P...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1844
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+18+i

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 225
Title:: Pahlavi-Persian vocabulary
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+33

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 226
Title:: Pahlavi-Persian vocabulary
Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:: 1826
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+59

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 227
Title:: Pahlavi-Persian vocabulary
Scope & Content:: An interlinear Pahlavi-Persian vocabulary, unfinished at end. Gujarati translations have been added in pencil from folio 1v onwards. Former number: P&A CCXXVII.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Gujarati, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+10+v

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 228
Title:: Pahlavi Rivayat
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Pahlavi Rivāyat accompanying the Dādistān ī dēnīg, of which ff. 8, 13, 32-63 belong to an old copy made in Iran and dating from the 16th century. The missing folios have been copied by the scholar E. W. West from an almost identical modern manuscript belonging to Dastur Jama...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pahlavi
Date Range:: 16th century; 1902-3
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+86+xv

Reference (shelfmark):: RSPA 229
Title:: Visperad with Pahlavi translation
Scope & Content:: A beautifully copied text of the Avestan Visperad with a Pahlavi translation. A note in Persian on f. 1r gives the title as Vīsparad bā Pahlavī maʻnī, copied for the Iranian Siyāvakhsh ibn Hurmazdyār Āẕari by his faithful disciple Īrachjī Suhrābjī Dastūr on Zamyad of the month Murdad qadīmī 12...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:: 1861
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+33

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