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Add MS 22377
- Record Id:
- 032-003469331
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003469331
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100090278363.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145840761.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22377
- Title:
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Visperad
- Scope & Content:
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An incomplete copy of the Visperad with a verse by verse translation into Pahlavi.
Note by former owner (f. 46v): "Hunc Librum Visperad (a Vendidad Sade desumptum) a sacerdote pauperi Feriduno emi - Surati Jan. 3 1822. Teste Tahemurathe Mobedo".
Text begins on folio 2r.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003469331", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 22377: Visperad" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003469331
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003469331
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+46+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100145840761.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi - Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1822
- Date Range:
- Late 18th or early 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Physical characteristics:
Material: Paper
Dimensions: 263 x 231 mm leaf
Foliation: In pencil; folio 25 has been omitted in the foliation sequence
Ruling: 14-15 lines per page
Script: Avestan
Ink: Black ink
Decoration: Avestan words separated by full stop, verse endings indicated by three circles
Binding: Red leather european-style binding with stamped central medallion, pendants and corners
Condition: Some repairs. Lacunae after ff. 10, 13, 17
Marginalia: Catchwords
- Custodial History:
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Purchased by an unnamed buyer in Surat in 1822 (f. 46v)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from the Rev. Benjamin Webb (1819-1885), 8 May 1858
- Publications:
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- Unvala, Jamsedji Maneckji, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay, 1940), no. 101
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)