A composite manuscript containing Zoroastrian texts, a treatise on physiognomy ascribed to Plato, poems by Asīr, a Pahlavi glossary, a translation of part of the Mahabharata, and a treatise on music.

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Title

A composite manuscript containing Zoroastrian texts, a treatise on physiognomy ascribed to Plato, poems by Asīr, a Pahlavi glossary, a translation of part of the Mahabharata, and a treatise on music.

Shelfmark

MS. Ouseley 225

Language

Persian

Urdu

ff. 1-72 Title: Zoroastrian texts.

ff. 1-3a Title: Persian paraphrase and commentary to the prayer Ashem vohū

ff. 3a-5b Title: Persian paraphrase to Khurshīd niyāyish

ff. 5b, l. 3-6a, l.4 Title: Persian paraphrase to Yasnā

ff. 6a, ll. 4-11 Title: Prescript concerning the recitation of the prayer Yathā ahū vayryū

ff. 6a, l. 11-6b, l. 7 Title: Prescript concerning the ceremony of purification called Barashnūm

ff. 6b-15a Title: Extracts from the Minū-i khirad, in Persian prose

ff. 15a-18b Title: Description of the twenty-one books, which Zoroaster is said to have brought from heaven

ff. 18b, l. 3-20b, l. 2 Title: Ormazd explains to Zartusht why the day Khurdād (the 6th) of the month of Favardīn is a particularly distinguished day, enumerating those events which happened on it

ff. 20b, l. 3-21b Title: Jamshīd deposited in one of his buildings seven things, where they remained till destroyed by Iskandar Rūmī; specification of them

ff. 22-56a Title: ʻUlamā-i Islām

ff. 56b-72 Title: The romance of Anūshīrwān, in prose

ff. 75-86 Author and Attributed name: Plato افلاطون Title: Risālah-ʼi manẓūm fī ʻilm-i qiyāfah min mujarrabāt Aflāṭūn al-Ḥakīm al-ʻĀlim Title: رسالۀ منظوم فى علم قيافة من مجرّبات افلاطون الحكيم العالم

ff. 89-172 Author: Asīr Shahristānī, Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Mīrzā Muʼmin, fl. 17th century اسير شهرستانى، جلال الدين بن ميرزا مؤمن Title: Selections from Asīr's poems

ff. 173-231 Author, Editor and Translator: Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602 ابو الفضل بن مبارك Title: Tarjamah-ʼi sabhā parba az Kitāb-i Mahābhārata Title: ترجمۀ سبهاپرب از کتاب مهابهارت

ff. 232-251 Author: Anonymous Title: A Pahlavī glossary

ff. 252-263 Author: Jānā Baygam جانا بيگم Title: Risālah-ʼi Mūsīqī Title: رسالۀ موسیقی

Form

codex

Physical extent

ff. 263

Hands

Script: Nastaʻlīq.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

Provenance

The collections of Sir William Ouseley, d. 1842 .

Subject

Pahlavi language

Persian poetry--1500-1796

Hinduism

Physiognomy

Bharata (Hindu mythology) >

Epic literature, Sanskrit

Zoroastrianism

Music--India

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Jānā Baygam جانا بيگم
Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602
Plato
Asīr Shahristānī, Jalāl al-Dīn ibn Mīrzā Muʼmin, fl. 17th century
Ouseley, William, 1767-1842

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