Identifying and rearranging the three Persian Zoroastrian collections at the Library of the Islamic Assembly

The Zoroastrian MSS and written heritage are of particular significance in the history of Islamic culture. Due to the scattering of this heritage, lack of a single centre for collecting and preserving it, the specific nature of Zoroastrian texts and unfamiliarity of researches and cataloguers with them, this heritage has not been sufficiently identified and introduced. What has by now been dealt with, including the work done by the hard-working cataloguers at great MS libraries, are often marred by defects and shortcomings.
Iran’s Islamic Assembly Library is possessed of an invaluable treasure of Zoroastrian manuscripts in Avestan, Middle Persian and Farsi. The 3 manuscripts of this library (nos. 13522, 12604 and 13589) represent examples of insufficient introduction and uninformed repairment in this respect.