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RSPA 224
- Record Id:
- 032-004380896
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004380896
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170027223.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849799.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- RSPA 224
- Title:
- Farhang-i lughāt-i kitāb mustaṭāb-i Dasātīr
- Scope & Content:
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Farhang-i lughāt-i kitāb mustaṭāb-i Dasātīr, a dictionary of rare words occurring in the Dasātīr-i āsmānī attributed to the philosopher priest Aẕar Kayvān (1533-1618).
Completed by Siyāvakhsh son of Ūrmazdyār Siyāvakhsh on Dīn (6th day) of Ādar in the year 1260 AH (May 1844).
Former number: P&A CCXXIV.
- 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:
- 032-004380896
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004380896
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+18+i
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849799.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1844
- End Date:
- 1844
- Date Range:
- 1844
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Bombay, dated Dīn (6th day) of Ādar in the year 1260 AH (May 1844)
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper.
Foliation: ff. i+18+i, European numerals in pencil.
Layout: 17 lines per page; catch words.
Script: Persian nastaʻliq
Copyist:Siyāvakhsh son of Ūrmazdyār Siyāvakhsh.
Ink: black with headings in red.
Condition: good.
Binding: red leather European-style 19th-century Indian binding, 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), pp. 136-7 no 224.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)