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

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

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):

Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo

Kaikhusroo Minocher Jamaspasa WIKIDATA

Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji

Dadabhoy Framji Rustamji Darabji WIKIDATA

Jackson, A. V. Williams 1862-1937

A. V. Williams Jackson WIKIDATA

Note:

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

Keyword:

Early works

Texts

Manuscripts, Avestan

Zoroastrianism

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642105

IIIF Manifest:

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

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library