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MSS Avestan 19
- Record Id:
- 032-003460408
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003460408
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100085514460.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849062.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 19
- Title:
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Menoy i khrad followed by fragments of Afrins and Aogemadaeca
- Scope & Content:
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The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Mēnōy ī khrad followed by fragments of Āfrīns and Aogemadaēca
Contents:
(1) The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Pahlavi Mēnōy ī khrad composed by Naryosangh Dhaval in the12th century. Although it lacks the first folio containing Naryosangh’s introduction, the text itself is complete. A Pahlavi colophon on f. 132r, copied from an older manuscript, names the (presumably original) copyist as Herbad Shahriyar, descended from Naryosangh. This is followed by a Sanskrit colophon giving the date and place of completion of the copy as Nausari, Samvat 1577 or AY 890 (1521), copied on behalf of Bahram son of Pahlan by Mihraban son of Mahyar, grandson of Padam (ff. 1r-132v).
(2) Avestan, Pazand and Sanskrit fragments of Āfrīns and Aogәmadaēca (ff. 133r-148r).
The Sanskrit version appears in alternate sentences in upturned script.
The floral and geometric decorations are a feature of this manuscript.
The text is preceded by an inserted leaf (f. iii) with Samuel Guise’s number 366 and a note, possibly in his hand; another later inserted note (f. i) describes the contents, and is annotated by E.W.West.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003460408
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- MSS Avestan 19, ff 1r-132v : The Pazand-Sanskrit version of the Pahlavi Mēnōy ī khrad
MSS Avestan 19, ff 133r-148r : Fragments of Āfrīns and Aogemadaēca in Avestan, Pazand and Sanskrit
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- 032-003460408
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iii+149 (f. 149 blank)
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Pahlavi
Sanskrit - Scripts:
- Avestan
Devanagari - Start Date:
- 1521
- End Date:
- 1521
- Date Range:
- 1521
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: locally made paper for main text block with European patterned painted endpapers
Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm leaf
Foliation: pencil 1-148 (f. 133 left blank in error); foliation in Gujarati, partially trimmed
Layout: 15 lines per page
Script: avestan and upturned devanagari; copied by Mihraban son of Mahyar, grandson of Padam, at Navsari
Ink: black, with rubrications
Decoration: floral and geometric decorations
Binding: red leather islamic style binding, without flap; silver central medallion with stamped floral decoration, two pendants, four corners and borders
- Custodial History:
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Samuel Guise (1751-1811); purchased by the East India Company at Leigh and Sotheby’s auction house, London, 3 July 1812
- Source of Acquisition:
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East India Company Library, its stamp (f. 148v)
- Finding Aids:
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Dhalla, M. N., "Iranian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1912), pp. 387-98
Sims-Williams, Ursula, "Zoroastrian Manuscripts in the British Library, London." In The Transmission of the Avesta, edited by A. Cantera (Wiesbaden, 2012), pp. 173-94
- Publications:
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West, E. W., The Book of the Mainyō-i Khard. Pāzend-Sanskrit text with English translation and notes (Stuttgart and London, 1871)
Unvala, Jamsedji Maneckji, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay, 1940). pp. 94-95
Stewart, Sarah, Firoza Punthakey Mistree, and Ursula Sims-Williams, The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination (London, 2013), p. 88
- Exhibitions:
- The Everlasting Flame, SOAS, October 2013 - December 2013
The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, National Museum, New Delhi, 19 March 2016 - 29 May 2016 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)