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RSPA 222
- Record Id:
- 032-003949533
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003949533
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170091793.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849761.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- RSPA 222
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Zoroastrian treatises
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of miscellaneous Zoroastrian treatises in Persian consisting of:
- A history in Persian of the ancient kings of Persia, from Gayumars down to the Arab Conquest, beginning quite abruptly (ff. 1v-15r);
- Continuous with the last, of which, apparently, it forms part. An account of the following eight philosophers : Pythagoras, Jamasp, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Abuzurjmihr (ff. 15r-19v);
- Ikhtiyārāt-i rūzhā-yi qadīm, in Persian, on the choice of auspicious days for various undertakings (ff. 19r-27v);
- Explanations in Persian of a number of ‘Pahlavi’ (in most cases merely archaic Persian) words, arranged alphabetically (ff. 27v-36v);
- A treatise in Persian, consisting very largely of citations from the Bundahishn, on God, the Creation, the Amshaspands, the 21 Nasks, and miscellaneous Zoroastrian prayers (ff.36v-53r);
- Vijirgird-i dīnī, a Persian translation of the Pahlavi Wizirgerd ī Dēnīg (ff.53v-81v);
- Andarz-i Ādarbād Mihraspantamān (The Counsels of Adurbad Mahraspand) in Persian (ff.81v-85r);
- Instruction on certain points of Zoroastrian faith and practice including an account of the Zoroastrian calendar and its origin, apparently ascribed to the same Adurbad (ff. 85r-104r);
- The Yathā ahū vairyō and other Zoroastrian prayers in Persian script and translation (ff. 106v-135r);
- Glossary of ‘Zand’ words (ff. 135v-138v).
Former numbers: 47; P&A CCXXII.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashburner Collection
India Office Library
Royal Society Arabic and Persian - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003949533
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003949533
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+139
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849761.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India, 19th century
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper.
Foliation: ff. i+139, European numerals in pencil.
Layout: 12 lines per page; catch words.
Script: Persian nastaʻliq. Ink: black and red.
Condition: good.
Binding: red leather European-style 19th century Indian binding with gilt medallion in central rectangle and border with lines to the four corners.
- Custodial History:
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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”
- Source of Acquisition:
- Transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.
- Finding Aids:
- 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. 135 no. 222.
- Publications:
- E.W. West, “Pahlavi Literature,” in Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie, edited by W. Geiger and E. Kuhn, vol 2 (Strassburg: Trübner, 1896-1904), pp. 89-90, 114 §32, 80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)