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1. 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

2. 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

3. Add MS 22377

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Title:
Visperad
Scope & Content:
An incomplete copy of the Visperad with a verse by verse translation into Pahlavi. Note by former owner (f. 46v): "Hunc Librum Visperad (a Vendidad Sade desumptum) a sacerdote pauperi Feriduno emi - Surati Jan. 3 1822. Teste Tahemurathe Mobedo". Text begins on folio 2r.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
Late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+46+iv

4. 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

5. Add MS 24413

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Title:
Eight Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:
A collection of works mostly by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana (d. 1847) of Bombay who was the chief priest of the Shahanshahi Parsis, composed for Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) of the Madras Army who from 1827 to 1831 was Governor of Bombay. Mostly copied by the author whose full name is given he...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:
1809
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+94+vi (ff. 19-21; 26-30; 46-48, 58-60; 75-76 blank)

6. Add MS 24413, ff 85v-94r

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Add MS 24413, ff 85v-94r
Title:
A history of Ardashir Babagan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Ff. 85v-94r

7. EAP1014/1

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EAP1014/1
Title:
Arbab Mehraban Poulad’s Archive
Scope & Content:
The archival material includes 11 Avestan manuscripts (five Videvdāds, four Yasnās, one Vajyašt Gahanbār with Doruns and one Xorde Avesta), with a total of more than 8000 pages and more than 15,000 of dated historical, economic, and legal documents regarding the religious minority of Zoroastrian...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
4627 TIFF images

8. EAP1014/1/2

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EAP1014/1/2
Title:
Yasnā
Scope & Content:
The second manuscript in this collection is a liturgical Yasnā. On page 473, the name of the book is mentioned as Yašt-e bozorg on the final page. The manuscript is not illuminated. All Nērangs are in Persian. This manuscript has already been viewed by Moradiyan and he has published an article o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Avestan, Pahlavi, and Persian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 19th century
Extent:
468 TIFF images

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 11

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MSS Avestan 11
Title:
Pazand glossary
Scope & Content:
A Pahlavi-Pazand vocabulary consisting of words followed by blank spaces. Folios 1-23 contain Persian glosses.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+91+ii