Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Avestan [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian [Browse]
• Pahlavi language—Texts [Browse]
• Zoroastrianism—Liturgy—Texts [Browse]

Scribe

• Rustam Gushtāsp Ardashīr Gushtāsp, active 1726 [Browse]
• رستم گشتاسپ اردشير گشتاسپ، active 1726 [Browse]

Former owner

• Mobed Framji Fardunji Madan [Browse]
• Mobed Hormazdyar Mobed Khodabaksh [Browse]
• Sorabji Framji Madan [Browse]
• Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo [Browse]
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [Browse]

Related name

• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

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

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

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Source of description

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Binding note

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

Language note

Avestan and Persian with some Pahlavi.

Provenance

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

Source acquisition

Gift of Dastur Kaikhusro JamaspAsa, 1901.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

Other title(s)

• Ṣad Dar-i nas̲r.
• صد در نثر.
• Dar z̲ikr-i muluk furus az Ardishīr Bābakān tā Yazdgird-i Shahriyār.
• در ذکر ملک فرس از اردشير بابکان تا يزدگرد شهريار.

Title in Pahlavi heading

• Pēramon Yašt

OCLC

1131864854

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