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Add MS 8997
- Record Id:
- 032-004405959
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004405959
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100175149158.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100175451871.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8997
- Title:
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Avestan Dron and other texts
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of drōn and other works in Avestan with headings and some introductory text in Persian.
Folios 170-193 have been transcribed in Persian script.
The manuscript is a composite of two items bound together: an older part (ff. 77-165, 170-97) which is supplemented by a newer part (ff. 1-76, 166-9, 198-203.
Contents include:
- drōn (ff. 1r-55v)
- Fravardīn yasht (ff. 56r-149r)
- Āfrīnagān, with short introductions in Persian (ff. 149r-169v)
- Sīrōzahs and drōn. Folios 170-193 are in Persian script (ff. 170r-203r)
This manuscript has been copied by two hands, consisting of an older part (ff. 77-165, and 170-97) which is dampstained and damaged, and a newer one (ff. 1-76, 166-9, and 198-203).
Folios 1r, and 204-5 contain jottings and verses in Persian.
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:
- 032-004405959
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004405959
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. iii+205+iii
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Avestan
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
Avestan - Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 18th or 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper.
Foliation: ff. iii+205+iii; ff. 76v, 203v-204r blank; folios numbered in Persian.
Layout: 10 and 11 lines per page.
Script: Avestan and Persian script in two hands: a newer hand: ff. 1-76, 166-9, 198-203; and an older hand: ff. 77-165, 170-97.
Ink: black; headings in red.
Condition: older section is damp-stained.
Binding: dark green half-leather British Museum.
- 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. 269-75.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)