Details

Subject(s)

• Zoroastrianism—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Heaven—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Hell—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1744 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• illuminations (paintings) [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of three Zoroastrian texts, one of which contains fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• On spine: "Ardai Veraf Namah" in Western script tooled in gold.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah in two columns frame-ruled in red.
• Origin: [Ṣad dar] Copy completed 957 [Yazdegerd? = 1589] (fol. 60a) -- [Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah] Copy completed 958 [Yazdegerd? = 1590] (fol. 121b) -- [Dar shāyast va nashāyast] Copy completed 957 [Yazdegerd? = 1589] (fol. 208a).
• Description: Written in nastaʻliq in black on unglazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Some staining and insect damage; edges ragged. Binding is loose and some gatherings are detached.
• Decoration: Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah has fifty miniatures of heaven and hell. Three men seated on a carpet (fol. 61a), Arda Viraf explains his journey (fol. 67b), Arda Viraf on the Chinvat Bridge with Sraosha (fol. 71), Arda Viraf in the heavens (fol. 73-74, 77-85, 91-92), Images of hell (fol. 93-94, 96-97, 100-116).
• Incipit: [صد در] اين که مى باىد که بدىن زراتشت استوان باشند و بىگمان و بى شبهه باشند -- [کتاب وىراف‌نامه] چو گىتى شاه کشت آن شهر ىارى * که بود از شاه بهمن ىاد کارى -- [در شاىست و نشاىست] در شاىست و نشاىست که بر مردمان فرىضه باشد

Binding note

European-style full brown leather with gold-stamped fillets and gold stamping on spine.

Language note

Persian;

Script

Nastaʻlīq

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-60a: [Ṣad dar]. Treatise on 100 subjects connected with Zoroastrianism; this copy lists only 94.
• 2. fol. 62b-121b: Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah. Account of the visionary journey of Arda Viraf to the next world, with 50 miniatures.
• 3. fol. 123a-208a: Dar shāyast va nashāyast. Compilation of laws and customs on sin and impurity.

Provenance

Former owner noted at top of fol. 1b in Western script: Jumsetjeekursetjee.

Other title(s)

• Ṣad dar.
• صد در.
• Ardā-Vīrāf-Nāmak. Persian.
• Shāyast-nē-shāyast. Persian.
• Kitāb-i Vīrāfʹnāmah.
• کتاب وىراف‌امه.
• Dar shāyast va nashāyast.
• در شاىست و نشاىست

OCLC

765399739

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