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RSPA 221

Record Id:
032-003708771
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003708771
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 221
Title:
Zoroastrian prayer-book
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Ashburner Collection
India Office Library
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
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032-003708771
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Hierarchy:
032-003708771
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not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
ff. i+126+i
Digitised Content:
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=RSPA_221 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Avestan
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1827
End Date:
1827
Date Range:
1827
Era:
CE
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Subjects:
Zoroastrianism
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India Office Library

Ashburner Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

RSPA 221

Zoroastrian prayer-book

Contents

ff. 1r-118v

A collection of Niyāyish, Yasht, Gāh, Patet and Āfrīnagān, beginning with the Khurshēd niyāyish (ff. 1r-5r), followed by the Mihr niyāyish (ff. 5r-7v), the Māh niyāyish (ff. 7v-10v), the Ūrmazd yasht (ff. 10v-18r), the Ardībihisht yasht (ff. 18r-23r), and other works including the Bahman yasht (f. 55v-68v).

Colophon (f. 55v) states that the copy was made by Iskandar son of Mullā Gushtāsp Bahrām Farāmarz Isfandyār Rustam Ardashīr on the day Mihr of the month Ardībihist 1196 qadīm or 26 Rabiʻ I 1243 (17 October 1827) for Siyāvakhsh Ūrmazdyār Siyāvakhsh Rustam.

F. 55r is blank and a blank slip of paper has been added between ff. 76 and 77.

Language(s): Avestan in Persian script and Persian
ff. 119r-126r

An unidentified poem in Persian in a different hand comprising 154 verses.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: ff. i+126+i
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Layout

Columns:1

The verses are arranged in two columns.

Hand(s)

Black nastaʻliq.

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: 1827 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. 134 no. 221

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=RSPA_221 (digital images currently unavailable)

Funding of Cataloguing

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