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MSS Avestan 13
- Record Id:
- 032-003719691
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719691
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518267.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100146650366.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 13
- Title:
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Yasna Sādah
- Scope & Content:
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A copy of the Yasna Sādah (the simple text of the Yasna ritual without any commentary) without colophon. Folios 1- 24, 253 and 259-61 have been supplied by a late 18th century hand and folio 24 has been bound in upside down.
Folios ii verso and i recto contain an extended description of the work in English, possibly by Samuel Guise.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003719691", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Avestan 13: Yasna Sādah" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719691
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719691
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+261+i
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100146650366.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Avestan
- Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 210 x 110 mm.
Foliation: ff. ii+261+i, with two different sequences marked in Gujarati. Folio 24r blank
Layout: 12 lines per page; replacement folios 13 lines to a page; catch words.
Script: Avestan.
Ink: black; some verse dividers and instructions are in red.
Binding: leather islamic binding, without flap; gilt central stamped medallion, pendants, four corners and ruled borders.
Condition: Good.
- Custodial History:
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Former numbers:
No. 398 of Samuel Guise's collection; Guise's catalogue 55; Z&P XIII.
Provenance:
This manuscript belonged previously to Samuel Guise (1751-1811), Head Surgeon at the East India Company's Factory in Surat 1788-95 and was acquired by him in India, possibly from the widow of Dastur Darab.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Samuel Guise collection, acquired by the East India Company Library at Sotheby's sale 3 July 1812.
- Administrative Context:
- India, 18th century
- Finding Aids:
- M.N. Dhalla, “Iranian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1912), p. 392. Samuel Guise. A Catalogue and Detailed Account of a Very Valuable and Curious Collection of Manuscripts, Collected in Hindostan. By Samuel Guise Esq. Late Head Surgeon to the General Hospital at Surat: Including All Those That Were Procured by Monsieur Anquetil du Perron, Relative to the Religion and History of the Parsis, and Many Which He Could Not Procure (London: Printed by John Nichols, 1800).
- Publications:
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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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)