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Add MS 8996
- Record Id:
- 032-004405958
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004405958
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100175148627.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100175451789.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8996
- Title:
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Selection of yashts and prayers
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of yashts and prayers in Avestan and Middle Persian, transcribed into Persian script.
Contents include:
- Bahrām yasht (ff. 1r-17v)
- Ātash Niyāyish (ff. 18r-22v)
- Miscellaneous prayers (ff. 22v-63v)
- Prayer against the evil eye in Avestan script (f. 64)
Colophon (f. 65r): copied by Kayqubād son of the late Rustam Bahrām Suhrāb on Fravardin (19th day) of Bahman month of the old era (qadim) of Yazdagird 1223 (May 1855)
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:
- 032-004405958
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004405958
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. i+65+i
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100175451789.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Avestan
Pahlavi - Scripts:
- Arabic
Avestan - Start Date:
- 1855
- End Date:
- 1855
- Date Range:
- 1855
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper.
Foliation: ff. i+65+i; European pencilled foliation.
Layout: 9 lines per page; ruled margins.
Script: Persian nastaʻliq, except for f. 64 in Avestan script; copied by Kayqubād son of the late Rustam Bahrām Suhrāb.
Ink: black; headings and markings in red; catchwords.
Condition: good.
Binding: brown leather Indian? binding with central medallion and two pendants.
- 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. 275-6.
J.M. Unvala, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism in Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay: Parsi Punchayet, 1940), p.108.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)