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RSPA 229
- Record Id:
- 032-004385060
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004385060
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170120814.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849745.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- RSPA 229
- Title:
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Visperad with Pahlavi translation
- Scope & Content:
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A beautifully copied text of the Avestan Visperad with a Pahlavi translation.
A note in Persian on f. 1r gives the title as Vīsparad bā Pahlavī maʻnī, copied for the Iranian Siyāvakhsh ibn Hurmazdyār Āẕari by his faithful disciple Īrachjī Suhrābjī Dastūr on Zamyad of the month Murdad qadīmī 1229 AY (January 1861).
Former number: P&A CCXXIX.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashburner Collection
India Office Library
Royal Society Arabic and Persian - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004385060", "parent" : "#", "text" : "RSPA 229: Visperad with Pahlavi translation" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004385060
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004385060
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+33
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849745.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi - Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1861
- End Date:
- 1861
- Date Range:
- 1861
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper.
Foliation: ff. i+33, foliation in Persian.
Layout: 15 lines per page; catch words.
Script: Avestan and Pahlavi.
Copyist: Īrachjī Suhrābjī Dastūr.
Ink: black.
Condition: good.
Binding: red leather European-style 19th century Indian binding with gilt outlined 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. 139 no 229.
- 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)