MS. Zend c. 2
MSS. Zend
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Neryosaṅgh’s Translation of the Khorda Avesta, 18th cent.?
Contents
Summary of Contents: The Translation of the Khorda Avesta by Neryosaṅgh, being a translation of a Pahlavi rendering of the Zend, made probably about the 14th century by a Parsi, with a very defective knowledge of Sanskrit
Language(s): Sanskrit.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: Paper, apparently European.
Extent: i + 120 + i
Dimensions (binding): 32.1 × 22.5 cm.
Hand(s)
Devanāgarī in black ink.
History
Origin: 18th cent.?
very doubtful, perhaps 18th century, but very likely still more modern.
Provenance and Acquisition
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1614, pp. 321-322
Availability
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Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1614, pp. 321-322
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