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MSS Avestan 26

Record Id:
032-003719703
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
MSS Avestan 26
Title:

Zoroastrian texts

Scope & Content:

Zoroastrian texts comprising:

(1) An imperfect copy of the Pahlavi Stāyišn ī sīrōzag, or praise of 30 days (ff. 1r-38r);

(2) Pīrsad in Avestan, glossed in Persian as kīriyā-yi yazishnī, with occasional rubrics in upturned Gujarati, and Persian colophon dated Srosh (17th) of the month Day 1106 AY (ff. 39r-61r);

(3) Āfrīns in Pazand: Gahanbār (f. 62r), Buzurgān (f. 74r), and Vadardagān (f. 76r).

Former numbers: no. 401 of Samuel Guise's collection; Guise's catalogue 48; L26 (Geldner); Z&P XXVI.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+84+iii

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Languages:
Avestan
Pahlavi
Scripts:
Avestan
Start Date:
1737
End Date:
1737
Date Range:
1737
Era:
CE
Place of Origin:
India, dated Srosh (17th) of the month Day 1106 AY (1737).
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Local paper.

Dimensions: 201 x 138 mm.

Foliation: ff. v+84+iii.

Layout: varying lines per page; catch words.

Script: Avestan and Pazand with occasional rubrics in Gujarati.

Ink: black.

Condition: good condition.

Binding: quarter-leather modern brown India Office binding.

Custodial History:

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), p. 397.
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. 100.

E.W. West, “Pahlavi Literature,” in Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie, edited by W. Geiger and E. Kuhn, vol 2 (Strassburg: Trübner, 1896-1904), p. 108, §56.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)