[Khordah Avesta]
Contributors: Mobed Hormazdyar Mobed Khodabaksh, former owner; Sorabji Framji Madan, former owner; Mobed Framji Fardunji Madan, former owner; Jamaspasa, Kaikhusroo, former owner; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1726
Place of publication: Yazd, Iran
Language: ave
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Pahlavi language; Texts; Zoroastrianism; Liturgy; Persian Manuscripts; Avestan Manuscripts
Other titles: Pēramon Yašt; Ṣad Dar-i nas̲r.; Dar z̲ikr-i muluk furus az Ardishīr Bābakān tā Yazdgird-i Shahriyār.
Work titles: Avesta. Khordah Avesta
Description: 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: 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.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Avestan and Persian with some Pahlavi.

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).

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

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1v-87v: [Khordah Avesta]; title: 2. f. 88v-151v: Ṣad Dar-i nas̲r; title: 3. f. 152v-174v: Dar z̲ikr-i muluk furus az Ardishīr Bābakān tā Yazdgird-i Shahriyār