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Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Avestan 2
Title:: Vīdevdād sādah
Scope & Content:: A copy of the Vīdevdād sādah by Mobed Rustam Bahram Darab Sorab Manak Peshotan Sanjana descended from Naryosang Dhaval, dated at Surat in the year 1129 of the Yazdagird era (1759 AD). The colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati (f. 348r onwards) also mention that owner was Mobed-born Mobed Na...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:: 1759
Extent:: 349+iii folios. Ff. 346 and 347 are misplaced in the binding and should follow f. 349. Ff. 346v-347v blank.

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Avestan 3
Title:: Vīdevdād sādah
Scope & Content:: The Vīdevdād sādah copied according to notes in Persian and Gujarati on f. 1r by the learned Dastur Darab, the teacher of Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805) between 1758 and 1760. The copy is without a colophon but presumably dates from the mid-18th century. The manuscript has been rebound in its ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: ii+303+iv folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Avestan 5
Title:: Vīdevdād sādah and Vishtāsp Yasht
Scope & Content:: Vīdevdād sādah and Vishtāsp Yasht completed on the 5th day of the 10th month of 1161 of the Yazdagird era (1792 A.D) and copied by Ervad Rustam Darab Framroz Minuchihr Kershaspji Pavri at Bombay. Contents: Vishtāsp Yasht (ff. 1r-4v): in a very small hand, 46-54 lines per page. Vīdevdād sādah (...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:: 1792
Extent:: iii+401+xi folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Avestan 6
Title:: Yasna sādah
Scope & Content:: Yasna sādah, copied in Bharuch, Gujarat, by Herbad Rustam Bahram Ardashir Nushirvan on 22 Rabiʿ I, 1152 corresponding to the day Srosh of the month Dah 1110 of the Yazdagird era (29 June 1739 - although the two dates don't correspond). Interlinear glosses in Persian, generally in the margin.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:: 1741
Extent:: iii+196+iii folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Avestan 7
Title:: Bundahishn
Scope & Content:: The Bundahishn beginning with the chapter on the Gokard tree. Persian colophon (f.93v): copied at the port of Surat by Dastur-born Herbad Darab Dastur Rustam Dastur Jamshid, brother of Dastur Ka'us ibn Bahram ibn Faramurz and completed on the day Khvurshid of the month Adar 1184 of the Yazdagir...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Persian
Date Range:: 1805
Extent:: v+99+vi folios

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 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 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

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