The manuscript 120 (Lb2) has been digitized for ADA. M.A. Andrés has indexed it and now it is available on ADA. After a first collation, it is obvious that it is closely related to 110 (K11) and 235 (G97). There is now a list of the abbreviations used in ADA. You can find it here The manuscript Sanskrit-Yasna S1 has been digitized and is now published in ADA indexed by Leon Goldman. The manuscript Ave1001, one of oldest Iranian Videvdad Sade manuscripts, has been digitized by ADA through the kindness of Kurosh Niknam. The manuscript will be published soon in ADA by Saloume Gholami



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During his stay in India in 1755-1761, mainly in Surat, A. J. Anquetil-Duperron acquired 180 Avestan, Pahlavi, Persian and Sanskrit manuscripts for the Bibliothèque du Roi. Now they are preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The Avestan manuscripts were catalogued by Blochet (1905), Catalogue des manuscrits persans de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (available in http://gallica2.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k762201.r=blochet.langES)

These are the Avestan manuscripts preserved in this library:

-         Pahlavī Yasna: Suppl. Pers. 29 (with Skr. translation), Suppl. Pers. 1663 and 1664 , P11 (with Skr. translation), Suppl. Pers. 49

-         Yasna Sāde: P6 ,Suppl. Pers. 49

-         Pahlavī Vīsparad: P14,Suppl. Pers. 49

-         Vīsparad Sāde: P12

-         Pahlavī Xwardag Abastāg: P4 (=Suppl. Pers. 40), P14,Suppl. Pers. 49, Suppl. Pers. 51

-         Xwardag Abastāg Sāde: P3 (=Suppl. Pers. 29),P8 (=Suppl. Pers. 34), P13

-         Pahlavī Vīdēvdād: P2 (=Suppl. Pers. 26), P5 (=Suppl. Pers. 39), P10

-         Vīdēvdād Sāde: P1 (=Suppl. Pers. 27), Suppl. Pers. 1079, Suppl. Pers. 1976