RSPA 218 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Ashburner Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

1 copy of Nāmah-ʼi khvurtāb rasā bar sih partū by Siyāvakhsh ibn Ūrmazdyār Irānī

Language(s): Persian

Author: Siyāvakhsh ibn Ūrmazdyār Irānī سیاوخش پور اورمزدیار ایرانی

Title: Nāmah-ʼi khvurtāb rasā bar sih partū

Title: نامهٔ خورتاب رسا بر سه پرتو

On the Zoroastrian calender and intercalation, partly presented in tabular form.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support:

Extent: ff. 22

Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 173 mm.

Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Layout

12 lines per page

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq

Additions:

Headings in red;

Catchwords.

Binding

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

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: India

Provenance and Acquisition

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

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

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross 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. 130 no.CCXVIII.

Availability

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