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RSPA 228
- Record Id:
- 032-004385055
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004385055
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170119640.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849714.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- RSPA 228
- Title:
- Pahlavi Rivayat
- Scope & Content:
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A copy of the Pahlavi Rivāyat accompanying the Dādistān ī dēnīg, of which ff. 8, 13, 32-63 belong to an old copy made in Iran and dating from the 16th century.
The missing folios have been copied by the scholar E. W. West from an almost identical modern manuscript belonging to Dastur Jamaspji Minochihrji Jamasp-asana in Bombay.
Pahlavi text ends on f. 86r with a postscript by West on f. 86v.
The concluding 15 folios (ff. i-xv) comprise notes by West and correspondence between him and F.W.Thomas, Librarian of the India Office, dated 16 June 1902 and 6 Jan, 8 Jan, 12 May, and 26 Sept.1903.
In a supplementary note to Ross and Browne’s Catalogue of two collections (1902, p. 172), West writes, but without giving any reasons, that the manuscript “probably arrived in India in 1818, and seems to have formerly belonged to Seth Dhanjibhāi Frāmji Pātel, the learned compiler of the first Pahlavi grammar, published in 1855.”
Former number: P&A CCXXVII.
- 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:
- 032-004385055
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004385055
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. iii+86+xv
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849714.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Pahlavi
- Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1903
- Date Range:
- 16th century; 1902-3
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper.
Foliation: ff. iii+86+xv; in a mixture of Persian numbers and words, with roman numerals in pencil.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Script: Pahlavi.
Copyist (of replacement folios): E. W. West.
Ink: black.
Condition: Original and replacement folios mounted on guards.
Seal: Unidentified rectangular seal on f. 8v.
Binding: half-leather India Office maroon binding.
- Custodial History:
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RSPA 119-265 were presented to the Royal Society between 1864 and 1865 by Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner.
- 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. 138 no 228, and pp. 172-3.
- Publications:
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U. Sims-Williams, “Zoroastrian Manuscripts in the British Library, London,” in The Transmission of the Avesta, edited by A. Cantera (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012), pp. 173-94.
Alan Williams, The Pahlavi Rivayat accompanying the Dadestan i Denig. 2 vols (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1990).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)