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MSS Avestan 24
- Record Id:
- 032-003719701
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719701
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518337.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849280.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 24
- Title:
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Zoroastrian liturgy
- Scope & Content:
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Zoroastrian liturgy in Avestan, called Vaẓarkard (title in Persian), on the ceremonies connected with the barsom and dron followed by the Pazand Patīt (ff. 155-63).
Colophons in Pazand (f. 154r) and Gujarati (f. 154v): completed on the day Khurdad Ameshaspand (6th) in the month Fravardin year 1131 AY, or Samvat 1817 (1761), and copied by Herbad Khurshid ibn Manuchihrji ibn Kavasji ibn Jamaspji ibn Bhaiji Sanjana.
Glossed in Persian on f. 1r as “the book of Vaẓarkard, i.e. on cutting and tying the barsom and how to perform the dron, with a commentary in Hindi,” and in English as “Vadjirguerd; this Word signifies that which is explained. It consistes of Prayers that accompany certain Ceremonies, particularly the cutting of Twigs for the Barssom.”
Former numbers: no. 400 of Samuel Guise's collection; Guise's catalogue 119; Z&P XXIV.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719701
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719701
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+154+vi
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849280.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi - Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1761
- End Date:
- 1761
- Date Range:
- 1761
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India, dated Khurdad in the month Fravardin 1131 AY, Samvat 1817 (1761).
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Local paper.
Dimensions: 231 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. i+154+vi, numbered in Gujarati; ff. 68-154 incorrectly numbered 78-164.
Layout: 17 lines per page; catch words.
Script: Avestan, Pazand, Persian and Gujarati; extensive rubrics in upturned Gujarati script.
Copyist: Herbad Khurshid ibn Manuchihrji ibn Kavasji ibn Jamaspji ibn Bhaiji Sanjana.
Ink: black; some verse dividers and headings are in red;
Decoration: decorated section dividers.
Condition: good but detached binding
Binding (ff. ii-v at end): detached leather islamic binding with flap; gilt central polychrome stamped medallion, two pendants, four corners and ruled borders.
- Custodial History:
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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 Kumana.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Samuel Guise collection, acquired by the East India Company Library at Sotheby's sale 3 July 1812.
- Finding Aids:
- M.N. Dhalla, “Iranian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1912), pp. 396-97.
- Publications:
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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), pp. 98-9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)