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Bible -- Manuscripts

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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp, who ruled the Mazandarin Province of Iran during the late 15th century, seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants.
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)

Or Ms 67: انجیل مقدّس Injīl-i muqaddas, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 67
Scope and Contents

A Persian translation of the New Testament.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 147: الاربعة اناجیل المقدسة al-Arba'at anājīl al-muqaddasah, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 147
Scope and Contents

A treatise on the Evangelists- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John containing their Gospels. An index to the work is given at the beginning. It is stated on fol. 200a that the material for the treatise was gathered from old manuscripts in the Syriac, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic languages.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 176: انجيل مقدّسس Injīl-i muqaddas, 854 A.H., 1450 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 176
Scope and Contents

This is an old manuscript of the Persian translation of the four Gospels of Matthew, fol.16; Mark, fol.536; Luke, fol.886; and John, fol.1466. It is stated on the flyleaf in English that this translation differs from that inserted in Walton's Polyglot, but that it is very similar to the one published by Whelock, 1657 C.E. Contains some Armenian inscriptions on the end papers.

Dates: 854 A.H.; 1450 C.E.

Or Ms 177: انجيل مقدّسس Injīl-i muqaddas, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 177
Scope and Contents

A Persian translation of the New Testament.

Dates: undated

Or Ms 425: زبور داود Zubūri-i Dāvūd, 1231 A.H., 1816 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 425
Scope and Contents

Psalms of David in Persian; printed at Calcutta 1816. This is the translation into Persian of the Psalms on the basis of the Hebrew by the missionary, Rev. Henry Martyn, based in Shiraz, with corrections made by Thomas Thomson and Mīrzā Sayyid 'Alī Shīrāzī.


This printed text is bound with a different, handwritten translation of the Psalms (Or Ms 426).

Dates: 1231 A.H.; 1816 C.E.

Or Ms 426: زبور داود Zubūri-i Dāvūd, 1231 A.H., 1816 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 426
Scope and Contents

The Psalms of David in Persian.


This manuscript is bound with a printed translation of the Psalms (Or Ms 425), that states in its preface that it has been translated from Hebrew by the missionary, Rev. Henry Martyn, based in Shiraz, with corrections made by Thomas Thomson and Mīrzā Sayyid 'Alī Shīrāzī.

Dates: 1231 A.H.; 1816 C.E.