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Royal MS 16 B XV
- Record Id:
- 040-002107113
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x000103
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 B XV
- Title:
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Ṣad dar
صد در
- Scope & Content:
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The Ṣad dar (صد در), here called Ṣad dar naẓm, attributed to Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh, a popular version of the 100 Zoroastrian rules composed in Persian verse in Kerman in 1494 (14 Muharram 900 AH) at the request of Shahriyār ibn Ardashīr ibn Bahrāmshāh.
Copy dated 20 Muharram 1050 (12 May 1640).
This copy belonged formerly to Thomas Hyde who published it with a translation in Latin in his Historia religionis veterum Persarum… (Oxonii, 1700).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
036-002107098
040-002107113 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 B I-XXVIII : 16 B. I-XXVIIIThese MSS., &c., are from the collections of Thomas Hyde, D.D., and are chiefly Oriental.
Royal MS 16 B XV : Ṣad dar صد در - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1291]/036-002107098[0015]/040-002107113
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. 65
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1640
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- 20 Muharram 1050 (May 1640)
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper;
Dimensions: 210 x 121 mm leaf;
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil;
Ruling: 15 lines per page;
Script: Nastaʻlīq;
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings.
- Custodial History:
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Royal MS 16 B. I-XXVIII are from the collections of Thomas Hyde, D.D (1636-1703, oriental scholar, the king's translator). After Hyde's death in 1703 many Oriental manuscripts were purchased from his estate for the Royal Collection.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Finding Aids:
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Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1879-1883), pp. 48-9.
Sachau, E. "Contributions to the Knowledge of Parsee Literature," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 4 (1870): 229-83, p. 280.
- Publications:
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Sims-Williams, Ursula, ‘Zoroastrian manuscripts in the British Library, London’, in: The transmission of the Avesta, ed. A. Cantera (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012), pp. 173-94
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)