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Mss Avestan 7
- Record Id:
- 032-003719681
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719681
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518252.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158352264.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Avestan 7
- Title:
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Bundahishn
- Scope & Content:
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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 Yazdagird era (1805).
Note on f. 1v by Jonathan Duncan: "Received from Dustoor Kaoos at Surat". - Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003719681", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Mss Avestan 7: Bundahishn" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719681
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719681
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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v+99+vi folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100158352264.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
Avestan - Start Date:
- 1805
- End Date:
- 1805
- Date Range:
- 1805
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Surat, Gujarat
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 298 x 191 mm.
Foliation: v+99+vi ff.; unfoliated; ff 94v-99v blank.
Layout: 15lines per page; black ink. Catchwords on the verso.
Binding: brown leather European binding.
- Custodial History:
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Acquired by Jonathan Duncan from Dastur Ka'us of Surat
Former numbers: Z&P VII
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by the East India Company Library in February 1818 at the sale of Jonathan Duncan (1756-1811), Governor of Bombay 1795 - 1811.
- 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.
J.M. Unvala, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay: Parsi Punchayet, 1940).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)