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Royal MS 16 B V
- Record Id:
- 040-002107103
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000f9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139611958.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 16 B V
- Title:
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Yasna sādah
- Scope & Content:
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Yasna sādah (Avestan). Copied in Surat or Navsari, Gujarat and dated 7 Ardbihisht 1030 AY (1661) and copied by Herbad Darab b. Hira b. Chanda descended from Mobad Hormazyar Herbad Ramyar.
The text is preceded by a table of the Avestan, Persian and Latin alphabets (ff. 1v-4r).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
036-002107098
040-002107103 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 16 B I-XXVIII : 16 B. I-XXVIIIThese MSS., &c., are from the collections of Thomas Hyde, D.D., and are chiefly Oriental.
Royal MS 16 B V : Yasna sādah - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1291]/036-002107098[0005]/040-002107103
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Codex; 159 + iv ff.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100139611958.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Avestan
- Scripts:
- Avestan
- Start Date:
- 1661
- End Date:
- 1661
- Date Range:
- 1661
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Highly burnished paper
Dimensions [leaf]: 260 x 160 mm
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Script: The scribe is Herbad Darab b. Hira b. Chanda
Ink: Black ink.
Decoration: The yasna are separated by rosettes
Binding: Red leather oriental contemporary binding with central and flanking blind-stamped medallions and flap
- Administrative Context:
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Gujarat, 7 Ardbihisht 1030 AY (1661)
- Finding Aids:
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Sachau, Ed., ‘Contribution to the knowledge of Parsee literature’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 4, 1870, pp. 229-83
- Publications:
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Sims-Williams, Ursula, ‘Zoroastrian manuscripts in the British Library, London’, in: The transmission of the Avesta, ed. A. Cantera (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012), pp. 173-94
- 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)