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

Title

Khordah Avesta.

Other related names

• Rustam Gushtāsp Ardashīr Gushtāsp, active 1726, scribe
  رستم گشتاسپ اردشير گشتاسپ،
• Mobed Hormazdyar Mobed Khodabaksh, former owner
• Sorabji Framji Madan, former owner
• Mobed Framji Fardunji Madan, former owner
• Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo, former owner
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 323
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14433408
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131864854
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_323.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14433408

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Avestan and Persian with some Pahlavi

Origin

Date

1726

Place

Yazd, Iran

Summary

Manuscript of the Khordeh Avesta containing Avestan texts, some with Pahlavi translation, including Jasa-me, Afsudan-i Gomez, Kem-na Mazda, Nirang Naxun Pahrez, Niyayesh 1 and 3, Afrin-i Dahman, Afrinagan-i Frawardigan, Afrinagan-i Gahambar, Siroza Yast 1, and Yasht 1. These are followed by two Persian texts.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title for first work supplied by cataloger; titles for subsequent works from caption titles (f. 88v, 152v.).
   

Extent

I, 174, i leaves : 194 x 140 (140 x 90) mm, bound to 197 x 140 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Unstamped light brown leather over pasteboard; plain paper pastedowns. Cover is partially detached.

Layout

12 to 15 lines per page.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Avestan and nastaʻlīq in black ink.

Provenance

• Gift of Dastur Kaikhusro JamaspAsa, 1901.
   
• Formerly owned by Sorabji Framji Madan (note, front flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by Mobed Hormazdyar Mobed Khodabaksh (note, back flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by Mobed Framji Fardunji Madan (provenance record in M.N. Dhalla, The Nyaishes or Zoroastrian Litanies, 1908).
   

Subjects topical

• Pahlavi language--Texts
• Zoroastrianism--Liturgy--Texts
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Avestan

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Early works

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Khordah Avesta]
• fol. 88v — Ṣad Dar-i nas̲r
• fol. 152v — Dar z̲ikr-i muluk furus az Ardishīr Bābakān tā Yazdgird-i Shahriyār

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations