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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/5
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Persian texts from Munich and Oxford (Ouseley Collection), including Dadar i Dadduxt
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- [1844 - 1905] (Creation)
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1 notebook
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Description: Green, blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook with blue pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string a, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 5 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- Persian Texts from Munich and Oxford including Dadar I Dadduxt
- "Contractions common in Persian MSS."
- Chods-Viraf namah from H28
- The five kinds of marriage and Ahriman's advice to aeshan from H5 Rivayat on yatha-ahu-vairyo, 101 names of god, the will of God and the devil, degrees of sin & good, the tomb of Chosherevan, meaning of some Z. prayers from L8
- Description of the 21 hasks, printed from P13
- Verse introduction and post-script to Sad-Dar Mazam, printed by Hyde
- Vocabulary of Pahlavi & Pazand words from O121 & O225
- Anushrvron's ascension to the throne, Sayings & doing of Anoshirevan, beginning of the tomb of Anoshirevan, from O225
- Indir namah from O30
- Parsi cosmogong, Definition of Sins, from O40
- Saugond namah, Rivayat on miscellaneous subjects from Lb8894
Inserts:
- "Risalah-i Mimi-khirad-i digar"
- "Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroaste, extraits de MSS. Persans de la Bibl. du Roi par Olhausen et Jules Mohl." [Trans. Fragments relating to Zoroastrianism, extracts from Persian MSS. from the Kings Library by Olshausen and Julius Mohl]
- Short note on King Dadar bin Dad-dukht on the supremacy of Persian science in relation to Greek ways of knowing
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- English
- Persian
- Old Persian
- Avestan
- Pahlavi