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>The Gathas (/ˈɡɑːtəz, -tɑːz/) are 17 hymns in the Avestan language from the Zoroastrian oral tradition of the Avesta. The oldest surviving text fragment dates from 1323 CE
>The oldest folio of the Yasna/Gathas (from the same set as the Gathas) was written in 1323 CE by Mihraban Kaikhusraw, in Navsari, Gujarat (India)
>In this manuscript, each sentence is given first in the original Avestan language, and then in Middle Persian Pahlavi, the language of Sassanian Iran (c. 224 - 651 AD). This manuscript is the second oldest Avestan manuscript that survives today after the 10th century CE fragment Sogdian manuscript (also in the British Library (BL Or.8212/84) found in Dunhuang, China
>According to the British Library, "Mihraban Kaikhusraw, the scribe of our manuscript, also made another copy of the Videvdat in 1324 and two copies of the Yasna in 1323, all of which survive today
>"The British Library manuscript belonged previously to Samuel Guise, Surgeon in the Bombay Army from 1775 to 1796. Guise's collection was made at Surat between 1788 and 1795, at great personal expense, while he was Head Surgeon to the General Hospital. His rarest manuscripts (according to his catalogue published in 1800) were purchased from the widow of Dastur Darab who between 1758 and 1760 had taught Avestan to Anquetil du Perron, the first translator of the Avesta into a European language
>"Unfortunately the first part of the manuscript was in such bad condition that Guise had folios 1-34 and 59-154 re-copied and presumably the original was thrown away. The manuscript also lacks the final leaf containing the colophon, but luckily this has been preserved in a later copy made from the same manuscript. Samuel Guise died in 1811 and his collection was sold at auction by Leigh and Sotheby in July 1812."
>The Gathas (/ˈɡɑːtəz, -tɑːz/) are 17 hymns in the Avestan language from the Zoroastrian oral tradition of the Avesta. The oldest surviving text fragment dates from 1323 CE
>The oldest folio of the Yasna/Gathas (from the same set as the Gathas) was written in 1323 CE by Mihraban Kaikhusraw, in Navsari, Gujarat (India)
>In this manuscript, each sentence is given first in the original Avestan language, and then in Middle Persian Pahlavi, the language of Sassanian Iran (c. 224 - 651 AD). This manuscript is the second oldest Avestan manuscript that survives today after the 10th century CE fragment Sogdian manuscript (also in the British Library (BL Or.8212/84) found in Dunhuang, China
>According to the British Library, "Mihraban Kaikhusraw, the scribe of our manuscript, also made another copy of the Videvdat in 1324 and two copies of the Yasna in 1323, all of which survive today
>"The British Library manuscript belonged previously to Samuel Guise, Surgeon in the Bombay Army from 1775 to 1796. Guise's collection was made at Surat between 1788 and 1795, at great personal expense, while he was Head Surgeon to the General Hospital. His rarest manuscripts (according to his catalogue published in 1800) were purchased from the widow of Dastur Darab who between 1758 and 1760 had taught Avestan to Anquetil du Perron, the first translator of the Avesta into a European language
>"Unfortunately the first part of the manuscript was in such bad condition that Guise had folios 1-34 and 59-154 re-copied and presumably the original was thrown away. The manuscript also lacks the final leaf containing the colophon, but luckily this has been preserved in a later copy made from the same manuscript. Samuel Guise died in 1811 and his collection was sold at auction by Leigh and Sotheby in July 1812."
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