'A SMALL MANUSCRIPT containing severall rare and remarkable comfortable and admirable pieces . . . Written by a Polonian gentleman, 1672', viz. :-(a) 'The Slavonian alphabet', with notes. f. 3;-(b) Psalm i, in Slavonic, Polish, English, and German. f. 4-(c) 'Discurse of the origin of the Slavoni...
Thai alphabet, registered as a manuscript, but in fact a printed version which was engraved from the item Royal MS 16 B IV with the title Alphabetum Syamense. Signed „MBurg. sculp.“ Michael Burghers was born in Holland around 1647/8, died in Oxford 1727. Oldest known example of Thai script pri...
Thai syllabary and numerals in a sloping hand, with romanized equivalents. Thought to have been presented to King Charles II on 26 September 1684 by a Thai embassy on behalf of King Narai (Ramathibodi III) who reigned Ayutthaya from 1656 to 1688
Yasna sādah (Avestan). Copied in Surat or Navsari, Gujarat and dated 7 Ardbihisht 1030 AY (1661) and copied by Herbad Darab b. Hira b. Chanda descended from Mobad Hormazyar Herbad Ramyar. The text is preceded by a table of the Avestan, Persian and Latin alphabets (ff. 1v-4r).
A copy of the Khordah Avesta (‘little Avesta’), described as Kitāb zand avastā, a collection of prayers in Avestan, lacking the first folio. A Persian colophon (f. 67r) gives the date as Aneran (30th day), Ardibihisht (2nd month,) 1042 AY (1673), and the scribe’s name as Herbad Hormazyar Faramu...
This volume contains a Segirname or treatise in tabulated form showing the omens to be drawing from throbbings in various parts of the body, under the heading Kitab-i ihtilaçname. It gives, in five columns, the import assigned to the throbbings by Cafer Sadık, the Prophet Daniel, İskander Zu'l-k...
Ardā vīrāf nāmah, by Zartusht Bahrām اردا ویراف نامه
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A poetical version 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. This copy has been transcribed in both Persian and Avestan scripts, reflecting a tradi...
