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Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Avestan 24
Title:: Zoroastrian liturgy
Scope & Content:: Zoroastrian liturgy in Avestan, called Vaẓarkard (title in Persian), on the ceremonies connected with the barsom and dron followed by the Pazand Patīt (ff. 155-63). Colophons in Pazand (f. 154r) and Gujarati (f. 154v): completed on the day Khurdad Ameshaspand (6th) in the month Fravardin yea...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:: 1761
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+154+vi

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

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Avestan 26
Title:: Zoroastrian texts
Scope & Content:: Zoroastrian texts comprising: (1) An imperfect copy of the Pahlavi Stāyišn ī sīrōzag, or praise of 30 days (ff. 1r-38r); (2) Pīrsad in Avestan, glossed in Persian as kīriyā-yi yazishnī, with occasional rubrics in upturned Gujarati, and Persian colophon dated Srosh (17th) of the month Day...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:: 1737
Extent:: Codex; ff. v+84+iii

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 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

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