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6461. Mss Avestan 5

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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

6462. 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

6463. 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

6464. 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

6465. 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

6466. 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

6467. MSS Avestan 20

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

6468. MSS Avestan 21

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

6469. MSS Avestan 22

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

6470. MSS Avestan 23

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

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