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RSPA 216
- Record Id:
- 032-003473935
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003473935
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100095457867.0x000003
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- RSPA 216
- Title:
- Qiṣṣah-'i Sanjān
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashburner Collection
India Office Library
Royal Society Arabic and Persian - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003473935", "parent" : "#", "text" : "RSPA 216: Qiṣṣah-'i Sanjān" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003473935
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003473935
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- ff. i+13
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=RSPA_216 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1864
- End Date:
- 1864
- Date Range:
- 1864
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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India Office Library
Ashburner Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
RSPA 216
Contents
Language(s): Persian
ff. 1v-12vTitle: Qiṣṣah-'i SanjānTitle: قصهٔ سنجانQiṣṣah-i Sanjān, the traditional story of the settlement of the Parsis in India originally composed in verse by Bahman ibn Kayqubād ibn Hurmuzyār Sanjānī at Nausari in AD 1600.
Copy made for Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner from a defective copy belonging to Ghulām Muḥammad Panjābī.
Copy dated 4 Ṣafar 1281 (9 July 1864).
Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport:Extent: ff. i+13Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 180 mm.Foliation:Pencilled European foliation.
Layout
Columns:2
21 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: 1864-07-09 4_Safar_1281 AH; 9 July 1864 CE ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
RSPA 119-265 were presented to the Royal Society 1864-1865 by Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner; bookplate: "Presented to the Royal Society / by Mr. Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner / May 1865".
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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=RSPA_216 (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. 129 no. CCXVIFunding of Cataloguing
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