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Image Number:
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Bookreader PersianMS_93
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Reference Number:
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Persian MS 93
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Link to Catalogue:
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Parent Work Title:
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Ardāvīrāfnāmah
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Ardā-vīrāf-nāmah
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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vīrāfnāmah
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Description:
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Persian prose translation of the Pahlavi original Ardā Vīrāf nāmak, the story of Viraf, a Parsee hermit, visiting the other world.It has been a popular work of which there is also a translation, into Persian, in verse and more than one translation into English (see Rieu, BM 47b-48a). There are also a number of critical modern translations, by Ghulam Reza Rashld-Yasarm (Tehran H.S. 1314/ A.D. 1935), Muhammad Mu‘In (Tehran H.S, 1325/ A.D. 1946) and Rahim ‘Afifi, including the Pahlavi text by Reza Navabpour (Mashhad H.S. 1342/ A.D. 1963).
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Language Code:
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per
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Language:
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Persian
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Subject:
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Zoroastrianism
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Support:
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Leather
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Item Height:
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200 mm
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Item Width:
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120 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Provenance:
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Bland, Nathaniel, 1803-1865, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2021-05-25
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2021-06
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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