Avestan manuscripts

Avestan manuscripts
Folie 4 (right) of the S1 Yasna with the Sanskrit translation of Neryosangh
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ReligionZoroastrianism
LanguageAvestan
Period14th century-20th century

Avestan manuscripts are the only witnesses of the Avesta, the collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism. While the texts originated in an oral culture during the Old Iranian period, the written tradition only started during the much later Sasanian period. The oldest surviving manuscripts of this tradition date from the late Middle Ages.

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