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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 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. MSS Avestan 12

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MSS Avestan 12
Title:
Khordah Avesta
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Khordah Avesta comprising the introductory prayers, the Khurshid, Mah and Atish nyayishes, the Hormazd and two Srosh yashts, and two Sirozahs. Includes occasional explanatory glosses in Persian. Folio 21v has been copied upside down. Persian colophon (f. 99v) dated Day (15th da...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
1756
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+117+v

7. MSS Avestan 15

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MSS Avestan 15
Title:
Miscellaneous Zoroastrian texts in Pahlavi
Scope & Content:
Miscellany in Pahlavi and Pazand, including a work on the Dron ritual, the Mādayān ī haft amahraspand (‘Particulars of the seven Ameshaspands’), Patīt in Pazand (ff. 59v-79r) and an incomplete copy of the Shikand gumānīg wizār (‘Doubt-dispelling exposition’), an apologetic treatise by Mar...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+118

8. 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

9. MSS Avestan 22

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MSS Avestan 22
Title:
Bundahishn
Scope & Content:
The Indian Bundahishn beginning with the chapter of the Gokard tree, with the Pazand text of the Mātigān-i Haft Amshāspand on ff. 113-22. Pahlavi colophon (ff. 110-12), probably copied from an earlier manuscript, dated at Navsari, Fravardin (19th) of Amurdad 936 AY (1567), and copied by Herbad ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi
Date Range:
17th or 18th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+151+iv

10. MSS Avestan 23

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MSS Avestan 23
Title:
Shikand Gumānīg Vizār
Scope & Content:
A copy of the Shikand Gumānīg Vizār (Doubt-dispelling exposition), a Zoroastrian apologetic treatise composed in the 9th century and attributed to Mardan Farrukh. No colophon, but the manuscript is in the same hand as MSS Avestan 26 which was completed on the 17th day of the 10th month of 1106 ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pahlavi
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. 7+ii

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