File EWW/1/5 - Persian texts from Munich and Oxford (Ouseley Collection), including Dadar i Dadduxt

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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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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

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  • "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

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