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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24153
Title:: German prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This highly decorated prayer-book was designed for a female member of the aristocratic family of the ‘Freiherren von Freyberg’ in Southwestern Germany. She is depicted, with her family’s coat of arms, in several of the manuscript’s full-page miniatures, often as a witness to the events of the Pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High
Date Range:: 1509
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24184
Title:: Psalms, መዝሙር ዘዳዊት
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 3v-5r. Hymn to the Saviour of the World. ff. 5r-112r. Psalms, መዝሙር ዘዳዊት. ff. 112r- 122v. The Canticles of the Prophets of the Old and New Testaments. ff. 122v-128v. Song of Songs of Solomon, መኃልየ መኃልይ ዘሰሎሞን. ff. 128v-136r. Weddase Maryam, ውዳሴ ማርያም. Th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24193
Title:: Venantius Fortunatus, Carmina
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the collection of poems (Carmina) of Venantius Fortunatus (d. after 600), bishop of Poitiers, with accompanying letters including his two acrostic figure-poems. Two flyleaves originally belonging to this volume were removed after the 12th century and are now Columbia, Un...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24199
Title:: Azo, Commentary on Justinian’s Codex; Prudentius, Psychomachia; Various poems, including poems by Hildebert of Lavardin and Marbode of Rennes
Scope & Content:: This codex includes: ff. 1r-v: fragment of Azo's Commentary on Justinian's Codex, copied in the 14th century; ff. 2r-38v: a glossed copy of Prudentius' Psychomachia, illustrated with line drawings. This was copied in England in the late 10th and early11th century; ff. 39-89v: verses by Hild...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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

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