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1. IO SAN 3177

Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 3177
Title:
Kalpasūtra + Kālakācārya-kathānaka by Devacandrasūri
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra + Kālakācārya-kathānaka by Devacandrasūri in Prakrit. A canonical and a narrative text from the Jain Śvetāmbara tradition. This is the ms. used by Jacobi for his edition, translation and glossary of the Kālaka-story in Das Kālakācārya-Kathānakam ZDMG 34, 1880, pp. 258-278. At that ti...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:

Paper poṭhi bound in volume. Original foliation: 1-154. 29 x 9 cm.; 23 x 5 cm. 6 lines. Twofold ms. with three margins of 2 cm., two on the sides, and one as a separation between the two parts of the ms. Good condition. `It is written with silver on 113 leaves, most of which are painted alternatively black and red. ... There are many pictures in the text, and arabesques on the margin. (MSS. of this kind are not unfrequent with the Jainas' (Jacobi, see below). The leaves are indeed lavishly decorated. Their background are either black or pink. Fol. 2 is written in golden letters with a cream-coloured background. Borders are also sometimes richly decorated. The same is true with the middle margin which separates the leaf into two parts.

2. MSS Avestan 2

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.

3. MSS Avestan 3

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

4. MSS Avestan 4

Reference (shelfmark):
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 5

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

6. Mss Avestan 6

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

7. Mss Avestan 7

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

8. MSS Avestan 8

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

9. MSS Avestan 16

Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 16
Title:
Niyāyish and Yashts
Scope & Content:
Five Niyāyish and the Srosh Yasht Hādokht. Lacks final leaves and colophon. Former nos.: Z&P XVI; L16 (Geldner); Guise 59.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

codex; ff. ii+64+2

10. MSS Avestan 18

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

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