RSPA 216 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Ashburner Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

Language(s): Persian

Qiṣṣah-i Sanjān, the traditional story of the settlement of the Parsis in India originally composed in verse by Bahman ibn Kayqubād ibn Hurmuzyār Sanjānī at Nausari in AD 1600.

Copy made for Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner from a defective copy belonging to Ghulām Muḥammad Panjābī.

Copy dated 4 Ṣafar 1281 (9 July 1864).

Author: Kayqubād, Bahman کیقباد، بهمن

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support:

Extent: ff. i+13

Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 180 mm.

Foliation:

Pencilled European foliation.

Layout

21 lines per page

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

Additions:

Catchwords

Binding

Leather European-style Indian binding with gilt borders and central panel containing gilt stamped medallion

History

Origin: 4_Safar_1281 AH; 9 July 1864 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 119-265 were presented to the Royal Society 1864-1865 by Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner; bookplate: "Presented to the Royal Society / by Mr. Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner / May 1865".

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact British Library, Registering for a Reader Pass. Contact apac-enquiries@bl.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript. For information on catalogues and ordering manuscripts see Finding and ordering Persian manuscripts in the British Library.

Surrogates

Bibliography

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. 129 no. CCXVI

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World