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IO Islamic 1619
- Record Id:
- 032-003460401
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003460401
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100085421617.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100146649960.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1619
- Title:
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Parsi marriage ceremony
- Scope & Content:
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Nikāḥ bastan bi-ravish-i mubidān-i Hindūstān ( نکاح بستن بروش مبدان هندوستان), the Parsi marriage ceremony in Persian, copied by the brother of Dastūr Kāʼus (f. 6v) and given by Dastūr Kāʼus to Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811) who was Governor of Bombay from 1795 until his death in 1811. Dastūr Kā’us’ brother also copied Mss Avestan 7 where he is named as Hīrbad Dārāb ibn Dastūr Rustam ibn Dastūr Jamshīd.
Duncan’s unsigned note "Parsee Marriage Ritual from Caoos"
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003460401
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003460401
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+10
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100146649960.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1811
- Date Range:
- late 18th or early 19th century
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Place of Origin:
- India
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: European paper watermarked AI MASSO and GIOV MAGNANI with crowned shield with figure of castle and heraldic bird
Dimensions: 199 x 150 mm leaf
Foliation: Foliation in pencil
Layout: 10-11 lines per page
Script: Nastaʻlīq; copied by the brother of Dastūr Kāʼūs
Ink: Black
Binding: Half-leather marbled boards
Condition: Boards detached
Marginalia: Catchwords
- Custodial History:
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Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay (1756-1811); Purchased by the East India Company Library at ''Duncan’s sale July 1818''
- Source of Acquisition:
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East India Company Library
- Finding Aids:
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Ethé, Hermann, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (vol. 2. revised and completed by Edward Edwards) (Oxford, 1903-37), no. 2825
- Publications:
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Unvala, Jamsedji Maneckji, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay, 1940), p. 101
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)