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RSPA 214

Record Id:
032-003471924
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003471924
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 214
Title:
Kitāb-i Dādar ibn Dādhūkht
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Ashburner Collection
India Office Library
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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032-003471924
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032-003471924
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. ii+21+iv
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=RSPA_214 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1775
End Date:
1864
Date Range:
1775-1864
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Subjects:
Ethics--Early works to 1800
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India Office Library

Ashburner Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 214

Contents

Language(s): Persian

ff. 1r-21r
Title: Kitāb-i Dādar ibn Dādhūkht
Title: کتاب دادر ابن دادهوخت
Incipit: این یک ذکری است که ویرا راسته خوانند دادر بن دادهوخت موبدان موبد کرده است
Explicit: و ان از دماغ باشد معنی خورش پنجگانه

A prose description of a debate on quasi-scientific and metaphysical subjects at the court of Shapur I (r. 240-270 AD) between the high priest Dādar and sages sent by the Roman Emperor Abūlneyūs (Apollonius?).

Originally written in Pahlavi, it was apparently translated into Persian by Jalīl ibn Hūshyār(?) ibn Mihrabān and further revised by Mubad Mubadān Abū Naṣr ibn Surūshyār.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: ff. ii+21+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Pencilled foliation

Layout

Columns:1

13 lines per page

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

Additions:

Catchwords

Binding

Leather European-style Indian binding with gilt borders and central panel containing gilt stamped medallion

History

Origin: 1775-1864 India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 119-265 were presented to the Royal Society in 1864 and 1865 by Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner; bookplate: "Presented to the Royal Society / by Mr. Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner / May 1864".

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=RSPA_214 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Denison Ross, E. and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 127 no. CCXIV

Funding of Cataloguing

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