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MSS Avestan 22

Record Id:

032-003719699

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Reference (shelfmark):

MSS Avestan 22

Title:

Bundahishn

Scope & Content:

The Indian Bundahishn beginning with the chapter of the Gokard tree, with the Pazand text of the Mātigān-i Haft Amshāspand on ff. 113-22.

Pahlavi colophon (ff. 110-12), probably copied from an earlier manuscript, dated at Navsari, Fravardin (19th) of Amurdad 936 AY (1567), and copied by Herbad Ashdin Kaka Dhanpal Lakhmidar Bahram Lakhmidar Mobad Kamdin Zartusht Mobad Hormazdyar Ramyar from the manuscript of Ustad Peshotan Ram Kamdin Shahriyar.

Extended note in Englsh, possibly by Samuel Guis,e on f. ii verso.

Additional folios attached at end: Letter from unknown person dated Tübingen 22.VI.82 and torn card recording use of volume by Miss Sheppard Smith, 1909 and P.K. Anklesaria on 5.5.1958.

Former numbers: Z&P XXII; L22 (Geldner); Guise 122.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

India Office Library

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+151+iv

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Languages:

Pahlavi

Scripts:

Avestan

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

17th or 18th century

Era:

Place of Origin:

India, 17th or 18th century.

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: locally made paper.

Dimensions: 213 x 141 mm.

Foliation: ff. ii+153. Ff 1-136 foliated in Persian numeration and ff. 137-51 in Gujarati with an additional new sequence of Persian numeration.

Layout: 14 lines per page; catch words.

Script: Pazand.

Copyist: Herbad Ashdin Kaka Dhanpal Lakhmidar Bahram Lakhmidar Mobad Kamdin Zartusht Mobad Hormazdyar Ramyar.

Ink: black.

Binding: leather islamic binding, with resored flap; central stamped medallion, pendants, four corners and ruled borders. Fragment from 19th century binding preserved (f. ii).

Condition: Good condition.

Custodial History:

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.

Finding Aids:

M.N. Dhalla, “Iranian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1912), p. 396.

Publications:

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).

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,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute. New series, v. 19 (2005 [2009]), pp. 199-209.

J.M. Unvala, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay: Parsi Punchayet, 1940), p. 96.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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