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41. MSS Avestan 13

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MSS Avestan 13
Title:
Yasna Sādah
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Yasna Sādah (the simple text of the Yasna ritual without any commentary) without colophon. Folios 1- 24, 253 and 259-61 have been supplied by a late 18th century hand and folio 24 has been bound in upside down. Folios ii verso and i recto contain an extended description of the wo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+261+i

42. MSS Avestan 14

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MSS Avestan 14
Title:
Zoroastrian liturgy
Scope & Content:
A collection of various Baj liturgies described on the flyleaf in Persian as Drūn yashtān and on the endpaper as “Daroun Sade.” Completed in the month of Adar with the name of the scribe obliterated (Persian inscription on endpaper). The flyleaf and the endpaper have been reversed and are con...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Gujarati
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+149+i

43. MSS Avestan 16

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MSS Avestan 16
Title:
Niyāyish and Yashts
Scope & Content:
Five Niyāyish and the Srosh Yasht Hādokht. Lacks final leaves and colophon. Former nos.: Z&P XVI; L16 (Geldner); Guise 59.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

codex; ff. ii+64+2

44. MSS Avestan 17

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MSS Avestan 17
Title:
Yasna sādah
Scope & Content:
One of the oldest copies of the Yasna Sādah (the simple text of the Yasna ritual without any commentary). Completed, according to the Persian colophon (f. 198v), on the day Bahram (20th) of the month Avan 925 AY (1556), by Herbad Ardashir Mobed Jiva who traces his genealogy via Ardashir Ram Kamd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Gujarati
Date Range:
1556
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+198+i

45. MSS Avestan 18

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MSS Avestan 18
Title:
Yasna sādah
Scope & Content:
Yasna sādah, lacking colophon. Rubrics in Gujarati in upturned script. Former nos.: Z&P XVIII; L20 (Geldner); Guise 61.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Gujarati
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

codex; ff. i+169

46. MSS Avestan 20

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MSS Avestan 20
Title:
Khordah Avesta and Yashts
Scope & Content:
Khordah Avesta and Yashts beginning with (ff. 1A-1B) a detailed index in Gujarati dated Samvat 1832 (1775), copied by Andhiyaru Rustamji Shapurji Godrez. Contents include: Introductory prayers; five Niyāyish; two Patets; Pazand and Sanskrit Āshirvāds; Āfarīns Gahanbār, Ardafravash and Hamkār; f...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

codex; ff. v+1A-1D+509+iii

47. MSS Avestan 21

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MSS Avestan 21
Title:
Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:
Khordah Avesta dated 10 Ardibihisht 1093 AY (1723). Contents comprise: Introductory prayers; five Niyāyish; Āfarīns: Gāthā, Gahanbār, and Dahmān; five Gāhs; Yashts: Hōrmazd, Haft Amshāspand, Ardabahisht, 2 Srōsh, Hōm, Vanand, Bahrām; Bāj, Nīrangs, Avestan fragments and Sīrōzahs. Copied in 2 ha...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
1723
Extent:

Codex; ff. 277+i

48. MSS Avestan 24

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MSS Avestan 24
Title:
Zoroastrian liturgy
Scope & Content:
Zoroastrian liturgy in Avestan, called Vaẓarkard (title in Persian), on the ceremonies connected with the barsom and dron followed by the Pazand Patīt (ff. 155-63). Colophons in Pazand (f. 154r) and Gujarati (f. 154v): completed on the day Khurdad Ameshaspand (6th) in the month Fravardin yea...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1761
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+154+vi

49. MSS Avestan 25

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MSS Avestan 25
Title:
Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:
The Khordah Avesta in Avestan with Persian translation. Contents: Introductory prayers, 5 Nyāishes, Hormazd Yasht; Āfrīnagāns: Gahanbār, Gāthā and Dahman. ff. iv verso-1r: explanatory note and contents in Persian. Colophon (f. 84v): copied for Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay 1795-1811) ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1808
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+87

50. MSS Avestan 26

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MSS Avestan 26
Title:
Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:
Zoroastrian texts comprising: (1) An imperfect copy of the Pahlavi Stāyišn ī sīrōzag, or praise of 30 days (ff. 1r-38r); (2) Pīrsad in Avestan, glossed in Persian as kīriyā-yi yazishnī, with occasional rubrics in upturned Gujarati, and Persian colophon dated Srosh (17th) of the month Day...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1737
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+84+iii