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MSS Avestan 4
- Record Id:
- 032-003719686
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719686
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518258.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165477696.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 4
- Title:
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Pahlavi Vīdevdād
- Scope & Content:
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The Pahlavi Vīdevdād consisting of the Avestan text with each section followed by translation and commentary in Pahlavi.
The copy lacks the beginning and final section but a later transcript of this codex includes the original colophon revealing the copyist's name as Mihraban Kaikhusraw who completed it in 692 of the Yazdagird era (1323 AD).
A short note in Gujarati on f. 1r describes the copy as very old and rare.
The manuscript was extensively repaired at the end of the 18th century by Samuel Guise who had the damaged parts recopied.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003719686", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Avestan 4: Pahlavi Vīdevdād" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719686
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719686
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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293 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165477696.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi - Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1323
- End Date:
- 1323
- Date Range:
- 1323
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 265 x 215 mm.
Foliation: 293 ff.; Folios numbered incorrectly on verso in Gujarati.
Layout: 15 lines per page; black ink. Occasional glosses in Persian
Binding: Modern half leather India Office binding
- Custodial History:
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Former numbers: Guise 45 (corrected from 46); 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.
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)