Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Vendidad Sade

Other related names

• Herbed Darab Framroz Minocher, scribe
• Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo, former owner
• Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji, former owner
• Navajbai, daughter of Framrozji Rustamji, patron
• Jackson, A. V. Williams 1862-1937, former owner

Call number

MS Or 320 - FOLIO
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14380122
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1126811806
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_320.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14380122

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

In Avestan. Colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati

Origin

Date

1131 AY 1762

Place

Surat ;

Summary

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).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• 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).
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Commissioned by Navajbai, daughter of Framrozji Rustamji (f. 320r-320v).
   
• 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).
   

Extent

322, [1] leaves :

Support

350 x 270 (270 x 180) mm

Layout

17 lines per page.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; diagrams in black and red ink (f. 32r, 297r).

Script

Avestan with new Persian in nastaʻlīq.

Provenance

• Presumed gift of A. V. Williams Jackson.
   
• Formerly owned by Dastur Kaikhusroo Jamaspasa.
   
• Formerly owned by Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji (note in Gujarati, second flyleaf recto at front of book).
   

Subjects topical

• Zoroastrianism--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Avestan--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Early works

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Vendidad Sade]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 32r — Diagram
• fol. 297r — Diagram