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Collection of three Zoroastrian texts, one of which contains fifty miniatures of heaven and hell.
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Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Islamic World offers a curated selection of extraordinary manuscripts hosted or held by Princeton University Library. The manuscripts are predominantly in Arabic, but there are also many in Persian and Ottoman Turkish. The manuscript digitizations here are a fraction of the full Manuscripts of the Islamic World collections, housed in Special Collections in Princeton's Firestone Library. Efforts are ongoing to make the manuscripts of these collections more accessible through conservation, catalog record updates, and digitization.
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- Publisher
- [1589?-1590?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 1744
- Language
- Persian
- 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.
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