Description
- Language(s)
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Avestan
- Published
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Surat ; 1131 AY [1762]
- Summary
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Manuscript of the Videvdad Sade written in Avestan with verses in Persian preceeding each chapter. The manuscript has four colophons with largely the same contents: Pahlavi (f. 320r-320v), Persian (f. 321v), Pazand (f. 321v-322r), and Gujarati (f. 322r-322v).
- Note
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Note in Gujarati followed by a translation by A.V.W. Jackson, "'This ms. was given to me by my father Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji in lieu of an honorarium for my undergoing the 'nan' ceremony' (i.e the barashnum ritual)." (second front flyleaf recto).
Commissioned by Navajbai, daughter of Framrozji Rustamji (f. 320r-320v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 320 - FOLIO.
Origin: Copy completed in the city of Surat on day Asman (27), month Adar (9) in the year 1131 AY (Anno Yazdegirdi) by Herbed Darab Framroz Minochehr (f. 320r-320v).
Decoration: Rubrications in red; ritual diagram in black and red ink (f. 297r).
Script: Avestan with new Persian in nastaʻlīq.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Other manuscripts copied by this scribe include 1 (page 3), 22 (page 34) and 39b (page 54) in J.M. Unvala, Collection of Colophons of Manuscripts Bearing on Zoroastrianism In Some Libraries of Europe (Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1940); manuscripts 127 (page 32) and 234 (page 55) in J.C. Katrak, Oriental Treasures, Being Condensed Tabular Descriptive Statement of over a thousand Manuscripts and of their Colophons (Bombay: 1941); and manuscript 146 (page 168) in E.B.N. Dhabhar, The K.R. Cama Oriental Institute Catalogue (Bombay: Fort Printing Press, 1923).
Manuscript codex.
Formerly owned by Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji (note in Gujarati, second flyleaf recto at front of book).
Formerly owned by Dastur Kaikhusroo Jamaspasa.
- Physical Description
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322, [1] leaves :
350 x 270 (270 x 180) mm, bound to 370 x 290 mm
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