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Add MS 8995
- Record Id:
- 032-004405957
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004405957
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100175148052.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100175451715.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8995
- Title:
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Selection of yashts
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of yashts in Avestan, followed by patēt, transcribed in Persian script.
Imperfect at the beginning with the first folio numbered 40 in Persian.
Contents comprise:
- Ohrmazd yasht, beginning with verse 5 (ff. 2r-10v)
- Ardibihisht yasht (ff. 10v-17r)
- Srōsh yasht hadōkht (ff. 17r-24v)
- Srōsh yasht (ff. 24v-34r)
- Patēt (ff. 34r-51r)
- Persian verses (ff. 51v-53r)
Colophon (f. 51r): copied by Dastūr Rustam Dastūr Jāmāsp dated Tir (13th day) of Amurdad month of the old (qadim) era of Yazdagird 1144 (June 1775).
Two extra leaves of notes have been bound in after ff. 37 and 41, the first of these containing an illegible oval seal impression and a rectangular one possibly dated 1209 (1794/95).
Add MS 8994-8997 are all numbered “No. 75.”
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004405957
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004405957
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. ii+53+ii
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1775
- End Date:
- 1775
- Date Range:
- 1775
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper.
Foliation: ff. ii+53+ii; European pencilled foliation 1-51.
Layout: 10 lines per page.
Script: Persian nastaʻliq.
Ink: black; headings in red.
Seal: folio 37av contains an illegible oval seal impression and a rectangular one possibly dated 1209 (1794/95).
Condition: good.
Binding: brown leather European-style binding.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the British Museum.
- Finding Aids:
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Sachau, E. “Contributions to the Knowledge of Parsee Literature,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 4 (1870), pp. 276-7.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)