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MSS Avestan 25
- Record Id:
- 032-003719702
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719702
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518361.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849318.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 25
- Title:
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Khordah Avesta
- Scope & Content:
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The Khordah Avesta in Avestan with Persian translation.
Contents: Introductory prayers, 5 Nyāishes, Hormazd Yasht; Āfrīnagāns: Gahanbār, Gāthā and Dahman.
ff. iv verso-1r: explanatory note and contents in Persian.
Colophon (f. 84v): copied for Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay 1795-1811) by Dastur Kaʼus on 1 Muharram 1223 (28 February 1808).
Ff. 85v: note in Duncan’s hand “It was sent to me in 1808 by Caoos Dustoor from Surat.”
Former numbers: L25 (Geldner); Z&P XXV.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003719702", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Avestan 25: Khordah Avesta" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719702
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719702
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iv+87
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849318.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
Avestan - Start Date:
- 1808
- End Date:
- 1808
- Date Range:
- 1808
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India, Surat; dated 1 Muharram 1223 (28 February 1808).
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Local paper.
Dimensions: 247 x 142 mm.
Foliation: ff. iv+87, numbered in Persian.
Layout: 15 lines per page; catchwords.
Scripts: Avestan and Persian
Copyist: Dastur Kaʼus of Surat
Ink: black.
Condition: good
Binding: half-leather brown India Office binding.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by the East India Company Library at the sale of Jonathan Duncan 13. Feb 1818: “Duncan’s Sale Feb. 1818” (f. iii recto).
- Finding Aids:
- M.N. Dhalla, “Iranian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1912), p. 397.
- 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)