Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 320 - FOLIO

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DS ID:

DS6612

Shelfmark:

MS Or 320 - FOLIO

Title:

Vendidad Sade

Avesta

Scribe:

Herbed Darab Framroz Minocher

Herbed Darab Framroz Minocher WIKIDATA

Place:

Surat

Sūrat TGN

Date:

1131 AY [1762

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Avestan. Colophons in Pahlavi, Persian and Gujarati

Avestan WIKIDATA

Middle Persian WIKIDATA

Persian WIKIDATA

Gujarati WIKIDATA

Material:

350 x 270 (270 x 180) mm, bound to 370 x 290 mm

Physical Description:

Extent: 322, [1] leaves : 350 x 270 (270 x 180) mm, bound to 370 x 290 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji

Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji WIKIDATA

Jackson, A. V. Williams 1862-1937

A. V. Williams Jackson WIKIDATA

Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo

Kaikhusroo Minocher Jamaspasa WIKIDATA

Note:

Commissioned by Navajbai, daughter of Framrozji Rustamji (f. 320r-320v).
Decoration: Rubrications in red; ritual diagram in black and red ink (f. 297r).
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Manuscript codex.
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).
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).
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...
Script: Avestan with new Persian in nastaʻlīq.
Shelfmark: MS Or 320 - FOLIO.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Formerly owned by Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji (note in Gujarati, second flyleaf recto at front of book).
Formerly owned by Dastur Kaikhusroo Jamaspasa.

Keyword:

Early works

Zoroastrianism

Liturgics

Texts

Manuscripts, Avestan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14380122

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642105_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library