Oriental treasures: being condensed tabular descriptive statement of over a thousand manuscripts and of their colophons written in Iranian and Indian languages and lying in private libraries of Parsis in different centres of Gujarat; together with minute classified contents and introduction; detailed historical, biographical and literary appendices; critical philological notes; exhaustive indexes, bibliography etc
- Type
- Descriptive catalogue
- Languages
- Arabic, Persian, Gujarati, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu
- Manuscripts
- 1,000
- Collections
- Private libraries of Parsis, Gujarat
- Online
- No online copy known
- Sources
- Attested in:
- Biswas 1998 no. 0363
- Janert 1965 no. 110
- Library of Congress (LCCN 43010556)
Description (Biswas 1998)
Description in tabular form about 1000 mss. of Avesta, Pahelvi, Pazend, Persian, Gujarati, 29 Sanskrit 16 Arabic, 17 Hindustani and 3 Hindi which were available in 63 private libraries of Parsis in different centres of Gujarat. Out of these, 32 private collections were located in Surat only. The Gujarati mss. mostly deal with Zoroastrian and Iranian topics. Appendix: History of Parsi settlement in Gujarat. 13 indexes.
From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0363, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.
Annotation (Janert 1965)
XXII, 295 pp. 4o (Sometimes "Extra contents" of colophons [in English].)
From K. L. Janert, An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (Wiesbaden, 1965), no. 110, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.