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MSS Avestan 27
- Record Id:
- 032-003719704
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719704
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518402.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110720145.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 27
- Title:
- Visperad
- Scope & Content:
- A copy of the Visperad ending on f. 121v. Lacks final pages.Note on f 1r: "Guises Catalogue 4to No 58" followed by a long note describing the work, possibly by the East India Company Librarian Charles Wilkins, which is continued on f. 123v (now upside down).A short note in Gujarat also on f. 123v says that the manuscript was accurately copied. Rubrics in Pazand and upturned Gujarati in red.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003719704", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Avestan 27: Visperad" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719704
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719704
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
ii+122+i folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100110720145.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Gujarati
Pahlavi - Scripts:
- Avestan
Gujarati - Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 163 x 138 mm.
Foliation: ii+122+i ff.; Folios numbered on verso in Gujarati.
Layout: 11 lines per page; black ink with rubrics and verse dividers in red. Catchwords on the verso.
Binding: detached leather binding in very poor condition with tooled central medallion, pendants, corners and margins decorated with floral pattern
- Custodial History:
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Former numbers: No. 369; Guise 58; 2642; Z&P XXVII; L17
- Source of Acquisition:
- Samuel Guise collection, acquired by the East India Company Library at Sotheby's sale 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)