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1. Add MS 8994

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Title:
Miscellaneous Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:
A collection of Zoroastrian works in Avestan (in Persian script) and Persian containing: ff. 1v-37. Orhrmazd yasht, Avestan in Persian scriptff. 37r-45v. Sawgand nāmah, on taking oaths, in Persianff. 46r-61r. Obligations and religious observances in Persianff. 61v-73v. Naṣīḥat nāmah-i Buzurjmihr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1857
Extent:

Codex; ff. 139+ii

2. Add MS 8995

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Title:
Selection of yashts
Scope & Content:
A collection of yashts in Avestan, followed by patēt, transcribed in Persian script. Imperfect at the beginning with the first folio numbered 40 in Persian. Contents comprise: Ohrmazd yasht, beginning with verse 5 (ff. 2r-10v) Ardibihisht yasht (ff. 10v-17r) Srōsh yasht hadōkht (ff. 17r-24v) ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
1775
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+53+ii

3. Add MS 8996

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Title:
Selection of yashts and prayers
Scope & Content:
A collection of yashts and prayers in Avestan and Middle Persian, transcribed into Persian script. Contents include: Bahrām yasht (ff. 1r-17v) Ātash Niyāyish (ff. 18r-22v) Miscellaneous prayers (ff. 22v-63v) Prayer against the evil eye in Avestan script (f. 64) Colophon (f. 65r): copied by Kay...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1855
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+65+i

4. Add MS 18396

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Title:
AVESTA YAZISHNA, one of the sacred books of the ancient Persians. Zend. Paper; written in the year 1105 of Yezdegerd (A.D. 1737). Small Folio. [Add. 18,396.]
Scope & Content:
Avesta Yazishna: : Zend.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 22379

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Title:
Pahlavi-Avestan-Persian glossary
Scope & Content:
A copy of a Pahlavi glossary with transliteration into Avestan and Pazand and explanation in Persian. Contents: f. 1v: Seven introductory verses in Persian in muqtarab metre; f. 2r-3r. Comparative table of the Pahlavi, Avestan and Persian alphabets; ff. 3v-39r: Glossary in 24 chapters arranged...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
Late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+39+iii

6. MSS Avestan 1

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MSS Avestan 1
Title:
Vīdevdād sādah
Scope & Content:
Vīdevdād sādah lacking the beginning which has been added in a later hand as have ff. 42-43. The date AY 403 (1435) on f..245 however is in Pazand and has been superimposed on the existing text and cannot be relied on. A note in Gujarati, dating from the late 18th century, on the endpaper says...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan
Date Range:
1435
Extent:

248 folios

7. MSS Avestan 2

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MSS Avestan 2
Title:
Vīdevdād sādah
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Vīdevdād sādah by Mobed Rustam Bahram Darab Sorab Manak Peshotan Sanjana descended from Naryosang Dhaval, dated at Surat in the year 1129 of the Yazdagird era (1759 AD). The colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati (f. 348r onwards) also mention that owner was Mobed-born Mobed Na...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
1759
Extent:

349+iii folios. Ff. 346 and 347 are misplaced in the binding and should follow f. 349. Ff. 346v-347v blank.

8. MSS Avestan 3

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MSS Avestan 3
Title:
Vīdevdād sādah
Scope & Content:
The Vīdevdād sādah copied according to notes in Persian and Gujarati on f. 1r by the learned Dastur Darab, the teacher of Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805) between 1758 and 1760. The copy is without a colophon but presumably dates from the mid-18th century. The manuscript has been rebound in its ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

ii+303+iv folios

9. MSS Avestan 4

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MSS Avestan 4
Title:
Pahlavi Vīdevdād
Scope & Content:
The Pahlavi Vīdevdād consisting of the Avestan text with each section followed by translation and commentary in Pahlavi. The copy lacks the beginning and final section but a later transcript of this codex includes the original colophon revealing the copyist's name as Mihraban Kaikhusraw who com...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1323
Extent:

293 folios

10. Mss Avestan 5

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Mss Avestan 5
Title:
Vīdevdād sādah and Vishtāsp Yasht
Scope & Content:
Vīdevdād sādah and Vishtāsp Yasht completed on the 5th day of the 10th month of 1161 of the Yazdagird era (1792 A.D) and copied by Ervad Rustam Darab Framroz Minuchihr Kershaspji Pavri at Bombay. Contents: Vishtāsp Yasht (ff. 1r-4v): in a very small hand, 46-54 lines per page. Vīdevdād sādah (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
1792
Extent:

iii+401+xi folios

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