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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

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2448/4
Title:: Dalāʾil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh
Scope & Content:: Author: Jazūlī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān, ?-1465 VIAF ID: 60346321 Subject: Islam--Prayers and devotions
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2506, ff 1v-46v
Title:: Kitāb-i shāyist va nāshāyist کتاب شایست و ناشایست
Scope & Content:: A prose work divided into 100 sections here called Ṣad dar nas̱r
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1v-46v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2506, ff 47v-78r
Title:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه
Scope & Content:: Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām Pazhdū 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
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 47v-78r

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

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

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