Digital collections

Title
Khorda Avesta
Note
Book of Common Prayer
Resource type
text(manuscript)
Medium
Paper
Extent
209 fols.
Size
23.8 x 13 x 3.4 cm
Languages
ae sa
Script
Avestan and Sanskrit
Script (detailed)
Sanskrit in between Avestan upside-down
Place of origin
[s.l]
Country of origin
in
Date created
1682
Samvat 1738
Topic
Devotion
Shelf mark
Cod. Iran. 17
Collection
The Oriental Collection
Selected references
Codices Indici bibliothecæ regiæ Havniensis I (1846), pp. 113
Comment
The text include the whole Baj (fols. 1-170) and Barsam (Patet pashemani) (fols. 171-175).
Part of Izeshne-rafitwan.
Text in Avestan, commentary in Sanskrit.
Purchased by Rasmus Rask in Bombay in 1820.
Is part of
Home/Orientalsk Samling: Håndskrifter/Iransk/Avesta/Cod. Iran. 011-020/Cod. Iran. 017