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MSS Avestan 28
- Record Id:
- 032-003719705
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719705
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518416.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849371.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 28
- Title:
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Rivayats in Pahlavi and Persian
- Scope & Content:
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Pahlavi and Persian rivayats.
Former number: Z&P XXVIII.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003719705", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Avestan 28: Rivayats in Pahlavi and Persian" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719705
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719705
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. i+178+iii+iii
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849371.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Pahlavi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
Avestan - Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- India, 19th century
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: European paper
Foliation: ff. i+178+iii+iii, with 3 unnumbered tipped in notes attached at the end; foliation is in roman numerals in pencil on lower left of each folio.
Layout: 17 lines per page; catchwords.
Script: Avestan and Persian.
Ink: black.
Condition: good condition
Marginalia: occasional Persian glosses in the margin
Binding: half-leather India Office Library binding, stamped 30 August 1929
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by the India Office Library 16 Feb 1923 (R&R 215/23).
- 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.
J.M. Unvala, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay: Parsi Punchayet, 1940).
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
- Exhibitions:
- The Everlasting Flame, SOAS, October 2013 - December 2013
The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, National Museum, New Delhi, 19 March 2016 - 29 May 2016 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)