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Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Avestan 8
Title:: Rivāyat of Kāmdīn Shāpūr
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Rivāyat of Kāmdīn Shāpūr in Persian but in Avestan script, containing instructions on ritual matters sent from Iran to the Parsis of India, completed according to the Persian colophon (f. 137r) in Nawsari, Gujarat, on the day Aban in the month Day 1020 of the Yazdagird era (1652) b...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Gujarati and Persian
Date Range:: 1652
Extent:: 154 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Avestan 9
Title:: Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Khordah Avesta (‘little Avesta’) which includes the introductory prayers, five Nyayish, the Hormazd yasht, Patets, Nerangs, three Afrinagan (Dahman, Ardafravash, and Gahanbar); and Pazand and Sanskrit Ashirvads. Gujarati version in in Devanagari upturned script. No colophon, but the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Gujarati
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 214 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Avestan 10
Title:: Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Khordah Avesta comprising the introductory prayers, five Nyayishes; the Hormazd, Ardabahisht, two Srosh, Hom and Vanand yashts; five Gahs, Patit, Nirangs, and Namaskars. A Gujarati colophon on folio 124 states that the manuscript was copied by Behdin Aga Bahram Dhanji Jivaji Dalal...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Gujarati
Date Range:: 1786
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+ii+128+vi

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F741/15/44
Title:: Cuttings from Indian newspapers in Indian languages
Scope & Content:: Collected by Penelope Chetwode as samples of different Indian scripts, includes Gujarati and Kannada
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Gujarati, and Kannada
Date Range:: 1960s-1980s
Extent:: 1 folder

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13456
Title:: Saṁgrahaṇīratna with Gujarati commentary
Scope & Content:: Saṁgrahaṇīratna in Prakrit by Śrīcandra with Dharmameru's Gujarati. commentary. Jain cosmological work of the Śvetāmbara tradition with illustrations and diagrams.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Gujarati and Prakrit
Date Range:: 19th C
Extent:: Bound paper poṭhi. 92 folios; 28,5 x 13,5 cm. Illustrated.

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