Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 323

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DS ID:

DS6594

Shelfmark:

MS Or 323

Title:

Khordah Avesta

Scribe:

Rustam Gushtāsp Ardashīr Gushtāsp, active 1726 / رستم گشتاس) اردشير گشتاس)، active 1726

Rustam Gushtāsp Ardashīr Gushtāsp WIKIDATA

Place:

Yazd, Iran

Yazd TGN

Date:

1726.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Avestan and Persian with some Pahlavi

Avestan WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (i, 174, i leaves) : paper

Former Owner(s):

Mobed Hormazdyar Mobed Khodabaksh

Mobed Hormazdyar Mobed Khodabaksh WIKIDATA

Sorabji Framji Madan

Sorabji Framji Madan WIKIDATA

Mobed Framji Fardunji Madan

Mobed Framji Fardunji Madan WIKIDATA

Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo

Kaikhusroo Minocher Jamaspasa WIKIDATA

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title for first work supplied by cataloger; titles for subsequent works from caption titles (f. 88v, 152v.).
Layout: 12 to 15 lines per page.
Script: Avestan and nastaʻlīq in black ink.
Decoration: Rubrications in red.
Origin: Copy completed in Yazd in 1095 AY (1726 CE) by Rustam Gushtāsp Ardashīr Gushtāsp (f. 86v, 151v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 323.
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).

Keyword:

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Persian

Manuscripts, Avestan

Pahlavi language

Zoroastrianism

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14566257

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14566257_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library