• Following complete manuscripts are already available in ADA: the manuscripts B4 and T46 of the Meherji-rana Library B4 from the Bombay University Library
  • The paper "The transmission of the Pahlavi Videvdad in India after 1700 (I): Jamasp's visit from Iran and the rise of a new exegetical movement in Surat" by A. Cantera and M.A. Andrés has appeared in the Journal of the Cama oriental Institute 2008, pages 81-142
Universidad de Salamanca Junta de Castilla y León Casa asia Ministerio de ciencia e innovación
DENMARK

Kongelige Bibliotek

Copenhagen

Kongelige Bibliotek, Postbox 2149, DK-1016 Copenhagen K, (+45) 33 47 47 47, kb@kb.dk, EAN: 5798 000795297

The most important collection of Avestan manuscripts in Europe is located in the Kongelige Bibliotek in Copenhagen. Its Avestan manuscripts were purchased by R. Rask during his stay in Bombay in 1820, from where he returned to Copenhagen in 1823 with 34 Avestan and Pahlavi manuscripts. L. Westergaard added later to this collection 15 Avestan manuscripts (numbers 35-43), purchased in India and Iran during 1841-1844. Several manuscripts of this collection, preserved at that time in the Bibliotheca Universitatis Hafniensis, were published as facsimiles by A. Christensen & K. Barr (1931-1944), Codices Avestici et Pahlavici Bibliothecae Universitatis Hafniensis, 12 vols., Copenhagen. Nowadays they are preserved in the Kongelige Bibliotek in Copenhagen. These manuscripts were catalogued by Westergaard, N. L. & Olshausen, J. & Mehren, A. (1846-1857), Codices Orientales Bibliothecae Regiae Havniensis, iussu et auspiciis Regis Daniae Christiani Octavi enumerati et descripti. Pars I, Copenhagen (in: http://www.kb.dk/export/sites/kb_dk/da/nb/samling/os/osdownloads/Samtlige_codices_orientales_1.pdf).

These are the Avestan manuscripts preserved in this library: