Description of Columbia University MS Or 320 - FOLIO: Vendidad Sade Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 320 - FOLIO: Vendidad Sade are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 320 - FOLIO: Vendidad Sade. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. 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). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 320 - FOLIO 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 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). In Avestan. Colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati Vendidad Sade scribe Herbed Darab Framroz Minocher former owner Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo former owner Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji patron Navajbai, daughter of Framrozji Rustamji former owner Jackson, A. V. Williams 1862-1937 1v [Vendidad Sade]

350 x 270 (270 x 180) mm

 322, [1] leaves : 17 lines per page. Avestan with new Persian in nastaʻlīq. Rubrications in red; diagrams in black and red ink (f. 32r, 297r). Notations Diagram Diagram

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).

1131 AY 1762 Surat ; 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). Zoroastrianism--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Avestan--New York (State)--New York Early works