COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader PersianMS_287
Reference Number:
Persian MS 287
Link to Catalogue:
Parent Work Title:
Ṣad dar
Alternative Parent Work Title:
One hundred Doors
Creator:
Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh
Creator Role:
Author
Description:
Ṣad dar (One hundred Doors) by Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh, in New Persian verse. Originally completed by the author in 1494 as a versified version of a well-known prose text, it contains one hundred chapters on different topics pertaining to the Zoroastrian faith. However, this manuscript regrettably appears defective and ends at Chapter 22 on 17a and then resumes Chapter 66 on 34a with the text on intervening folios 17b–33b curiously omitted and left blank, perhaps indicating the scribe copied it from another defective manuscript. Early Zoroastrian scholar Samuel Guise manuscript acquired the volume in Surat, India, and likely had it bound there with others.
Language Code:
per
Language:
Persian
Subject:
Zoroastrianism--Doctrines
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
205 mm
Item Width:
125 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance:
Bland, Nathaniel, 1803-1865, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2021-05-20
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2021-06
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands