Acknowledgements
The realisation of this facsimile edition of the Sanskrit Yasna manuscript S1 would not have been possible without the support of several individuals and institutions and it gives me great pleasure to acknowledge them here.
Firstly, to Dr. Alberto Cantera goes the credit for tracing S1 to Columbia University Libraries and for coordinating the initial digitisation of the manuscript in 2011 within the framework of the Avestan Digital Archive (
The electronic publication of the indexed facsimile images of S1 on the website of the
I express my sincere thanks too, to the following august organisations: the British Academy, for awarding me a Postdoctoral Fellowship held at
I am grateful also to the publisher Brill for including this book in the Corpus Avesticum series and for their technical assistance.
Last, but by no means least, I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to Prof. Almut Hintze, to whom this facsimile edition is dedicated. Prof. Hintze has been instrumental at every step in the process of making this book a reality, from first proposing the idea of a facsimile edition of S1 to approaching donors, liaising with many of the above-mentioned people and organisations, and in her capacity as co-editor with Dr. Cantera, jointly accepting this book in the Corpus Avesticum series.
Leon Goldman
London, June 2017