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Mss Avestan 5

Record Id:
032-003719675
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003719675
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
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 (ff. 5r-393r): 15 lines to a page, followed by blank leaves (ff. 393v-396v).

Copy contains two diagrams:

  • f. 43r: diagram of the Hom ceremony
  • f. 362r:
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Hierarchy:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

iii+401+xi folios

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Languages:
Avestan
Gujarati
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Avestan
Start Date:
1792
End Date:
1792
Date Range:
1792
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 284 x 251 mm.

Foliation: iii+401+xi ff.; folios mostly numbered on verso in Gujarati.

Layout: 15 lines per page; black ink with instructions in red. Catchwords on the verso.

Binding: Red leather binding with gilt tooled central medallion and pendanst, cornes and margins decorated with floral pattern. Doublures pasted down with pink patterned paper. The volume has been rebound in its original binding and the excess boards, made up from discarded printed calendar sheets, etc are to be found in 22 extra images at the end of the sequence.

Custodial History:

Former numbers: 381; Guise's catalogue 46; Z&P 5; L5

Source of Acquisition:
Samuel Guise collection, acquired by the East India Company Library at Sotheby's sale 3 July 1812.
Publications:

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

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)