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MSS Avestan 20
- Record Id:
- 032-003719697
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719697
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518274.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167592976.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 20
- Title:
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Khordah Avesta and Yashts
- Scope & Content:
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Khordah Avesta and Yashts beginning with (ff. 1A-1B) a detailed index in Gujarati dated Samvat 1832 (1775), copied by Andhiyaru Rustamji Shapurji Godrez.
Contents include: Introductory prayers; five Niyāyish; two Patets; Pazand and Sanskrit Āshirvāds; Āfarīns Gahanbār, Ardafravash and Hamkār; five Gāhs; Yashts and Nīrangs.
The original manuscript lacks the initial leaf and ends on f. 490. Folios 491-508 have been added in a later hand.
No colophon, but the two Ashirvads (f. 111 and f.119) mention the years 1042 AY and Samvat 1729 equivalent to 1672.
Former nos.: Z&P XX; L18 (Geldner); Guise 120.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719697
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719697
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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codex; ff. v+1A-1D+509+iii
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100167592976.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi
Sanskrit - Scripts:
- Avestan
Devanagari - Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 244 x 174 mm.
Foliation: ff. v+1A-1D+509+iii; folios numbered on verso in Gujarati.
Layout: 13 lines per page; black ink with rubrications. Catchwords.
Copyist: two scribes: scribe a: ff.2-490, scribe b: ff 491-508.
Binding: modern brown leather British Library binding.
- Custodial History:
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Acquired by Samuel Guise (1751-1811), Head Surgeon at the East-India Company’s Factory in Surat 1788-1795.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by the East India Company at Leigh and Sotheby’s auction house, London, 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
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)