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MSS Avestan 29
- Record Id:
- 032-003719706
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003719706
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110518427.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100170849416.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MSS Avestan 29
- Title:
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Yasna
- Scope & Content:
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Yasna with interlinear Pahlavi and New Persian versions.
Copied in Rustampura, Surat, by Faramarz, son of Asfandiyarji ibn Naoroji of Surat, for Behdin Faramarzji Cowasji Banaji on Mihr (12th day) of Shahrivar 1194 AY qadimi, Samvat 1881, Saka era 1746 (1825).
Former number: Z&P XXIX.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003719706", "parent" : "#", "text" : "MSS Avestan 29: Yasna" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003719706
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003719706
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. v+452+iv
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100170849416.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
Avestan - Start Date:
- 1825
- End Date:
- 1825
- Date Range:
- 1825
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- Rustampura, Surat, dated Mihr (12th day) of Shahrivar 1194 AY qadimi, Samvat 1881, Saka era 1746 (1825).
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: local paper
Dimensions: 350 × 220 mm.
Foliation: ff. v+452+iv, foliated in roman numerals in pencil in lower left-hand corner; paginated in Gujarati pp. 1-901
Layout: 13 lines per page; catch words.
Script: Avestan and Persian
Copyist: Faramarz, son of Asfandiyarji ibn Naoroji of Surat
Ink: black.
Condition: good condition
Binding: half-leather India Office binding, stamped 30 August 1929.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by the India Office Library 16 February 1923 (file R&R 215/23).
- Finding Aids:
- A.Hintze, “Manuscripts of the Yasna and Yasna ī Rapithwin,” in A. Cantera (ed.), The Transmission of the Avesta (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012), p. 256 §61.
- 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
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)