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RSPA 220

Record Id:
032-003546317
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003546317
MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 220
Title:
Miscellany containing four separate works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Ashburner Collection
India Office Library
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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Hierarchy:
032-003546317
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. xvii+56+ii
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=RSPA_220 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1825
End Date:
1864
Date Range:
1825-1864
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Fatḥ Muḥammad ibn ʿAyn al-ʿUrafāʾ
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India Office Library

Ashburner Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 220

Miscellany containing four separate works

Contents

Summary of Contents: A volume described on the binding as Kitāb-i mujmal al-uṣūlcontaining astrological and Zoroastrian works. The copyist is probably Siyāvakhsh ibn Ūrmazdyār (f. 39v)
ff. 1v-24v
Title: Jāmah-i ikhtiyārāt
Title: جامه اختیارات
Author: Ṣafī ibn Muḥammad Munajjam Jīlī Lāḥijī صفی ابن محمد منجم جیلی لاحجی

An astrological compilation in Persian ascribed to Ṣafī ibn Muḥammad Munajjam Jīlī Lāḥijī from various authors in 82 chapters with a khāṭimah.

Followed by a table (f.24v) of ascendants for important cities.

Headings in red. 16 lines per page.

Language(s): Persian
ff. 27v-33r

An untitled Persain treatise without author on the astrolabe, followed (ff. 28v-33r) by astronomical and astrological tables.

Headings in red. 16 lines per page.

Language(s): Persian
ff. 34r-37v

A poem on the significance of tinglings and twitchings of different parts of the body.

Headings in red. In 4 columns, 13-14 lines per page.

Language(s): Persian
ff. 39r-40v

Part of an unidentified Zoroastrian work.

The copyist's name, Siyāvakhsh ibn Ūrmazdyār and genealogy is given in full on f. 39v.

Headings in red.

Language(s): Persian
ff. 41r-56r

Prayers and instructions in Persian and Avestan.

Folio 54 blank. 14 lines to a page. Headings in red.

Language(s): Persian & Avestan

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. xvii+56+ii
Dimensions (leaf): 216 × 156 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Layout

Columns:1

Various layouts.

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq.

Decoration

Table of ascendants for important cities. f. 24v

ff. 28v-33r
Astronomical and astrological tables.

Additions:

Headings in red.

Catchwords.

Binding

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

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1825-1864 1825 - 1864 CE ; India/>

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 119-265 were presented to the Royal Society between 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

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross 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. 131 no. CCXX

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