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51. MSS Avestan 27

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 27
Title:
Visperad
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Visperad ending on f. 121v. Lacks final pages.Note on f 1r: "Guises Catalogue 4to No 58" followed by a long note describing the work, possibly by the East India Company Librarian Charles Wilkins, which is continued on f. 123v (now upside down).A short note in Gujarat also on f. 123v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Gujarati, and Pahlavi
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

ii+122+i folios

52. MSS Avestan 29

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 29
Title:
Yasna
Scope & Content:
Yasna with interlinear Pahlavi and New Persian versions. Copied in Rustampura, Surat, by Faramarz, son of Asfandiyarji ibn Naoroji of Surat, for Behdin Faramarzji Cowasji Banaji on Mihr (12th day) of Shahrivar 1194 AY qadimi, Samvat 1881, Saka era 1746 (1825). Former number: Z&P XXIX.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
1825
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+452+iv

53. Or 11967

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11967
Title:
Dasātīr-i āsmānī by Azar Kayvan and other Azar Kayvani treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: (1) Dasātīr-i āsmānī (دساتیر آسمانی), by the philosopher priest Aẕar Kayvān (1533-1618), a collection of invocations to 16 pre-Islamic prophets, including Zoroaster, which were composed in a unique celestial language (overlined in red) accompanied by a Persian translation and comments ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+72+ii

54. Or 11967, ff 52r-58v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11967, ff 52r-58v
Title:
A collection of hymns
Scope & Content:
A collection of hymns to the sun, Gushtasp and other works in Persian, Avestan, and a mixture of other languages
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
Late 17th or early 18th century
Extent:

Ff. 52r-58v

55. Royal MS 16 B V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B V
Title:
Yasna sādah
Scope & Content:
Yasna sādah (Avestan). Copied in Surat or Navsari, Gujarat and dated 7 Ardbihisht 1030 AY (1661) and copied by Herbad Darab b. Hira b. Chanda descended from Mobad Hormazyar Herbad Ramyar. The text is preceded by a table of the Avestan, Persian and Latin alphabets (ff. 1v-4r).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan
Date Range:
1661
Extent:

Codex; 159 + iv ff.

56. Royal MS 16 B VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 B VI
Title:
Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Khordah Avesta (‘little Avesta’), described as Kitāb zand avastā, a collection of prayers in Avestan, lacking the first folio. A Persian colophon (f. 67r) gives the date as Aneran (30th day), Ardibihisht (2nd month,) 1042 AY (1673), and the scribe’s name as Herbad Hormazyar Faramu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1673
Extent:

Codex. :ff. iii+67+iii

57. RSPA 1-280

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 1-280
Title:
Royal Society Persian and Arabic manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Royal Society Persian and Arabic manuscripts transferred to the India Office in July 1876, comprising the collection of Sir William Jones, presented to the Royal Society in 1792 (RSPA 1-118), and the collection of Mr Burjurjee Sorabjee Ashburner (RSPA 119-265), presented between 1864 and 1866. No...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Avestan, and Persian
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
280 items

58. RSPA 221

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 221
Title:
Zoroastrian prayer-book
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
1827
Extent:
ff. i+126+i

59. RSPA 223

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 223
Title:
Khordah Avesta with Persian translation
Scope & Content:
The Avestan Khordah Avasta with Persian translation and commentary. Contents include: Ashem vohu and Yatha ahu vairyo prayers, followed by the Kushti nirang, the Bāj-i ṭaʻām khvurdan (grace before meat), etc. (ff. 1v-16r); Niyāyishs: Khvurshīd, Mihr and Māh (ff. 16r-48v); Gāhs: Hāvan, Rapithwin (...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Persian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+351

60. RSPA 229

Reference (shelfmark):
RSPA 229
Title:
Visperad with Pahlavi translation
Scope & Content:
A beautifully copied text of the Avestan Visperad with a Pahlavi translation. A note in Persian on f. 1r gives the title as Vīsparad bā Pahlavī maʻnī, copied for the Iranian Siyāvakhsh ibn Hurmazdyār Āẕari by his faithful disciple Īrachjī Suhrābjī Dastūr on Zamyad of the month Murdad qadīmī 12...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1861
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+33