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MSS Avestan 1
- Record Id:
- 032-003196421
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003196421
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026632471.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 1
- Title:
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Vīdevdād sādah
- Scope & Content:
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Vīdevdād sādah lacking the beginning which has been added in a later hand as have ff. 42-43.
The date AY 403 (1435) on f..245 however is in Pazand and has been superimposed on the existing text and cannot be relied on.
A note in Gujarati, dating from the late 18th century, on the endpaper says that the copy is 300 or 350 years old.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003196421", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Avestan 1: Vīdevdād sādah" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003196421
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003196421
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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248 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=MSS_Avestan_1 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Avestan
- Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1435
- End Date:
- 1435
- Date Range:
- 1435
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 298 x 237 mm.
Foliation: 246 ff.; Folios numbered on verso in Gujarati.
Layout: 19 lines per page; black ink. Catchwords on the verso of every folio.
Binding: Red leather binding with tooled central medallion and pendant, corner and margins decorated with floral pattern
- Custodial History:
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Former numbers: Z&P 1; L1
- Source of Acquisition:
- Samuel Guise collection, acquired by the East India Company Library at Sotheby's sale 3 July 1812.
- Publications:
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M.N. Dhalla, "Iranian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1912), pp. 387-98.
U. Sims-Williams, "Zoroastrian Manuscripts in the British Library, London," in The Transmission of the Avesta, edited by A. Cantera (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012), pp. 173-94.
J.M. Unvala, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay: Parsi Punchayet, 1940).
U. Sims-Williams, "The Strange Story of Samuel Guise: An 18th-Century Collection of Zoroastrian Manuscripts," in Bulletin of the Asia Institute. New series, v. 19, 2005 [2009], pp. 199-209
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)