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Orthography of the Avestan Manuscripts
Series: - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, Volume: 32-7
- Corpus Avesticum, Volume: 32-7
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Avestan manuscripts show enormous orthographic variation, which has caused headaches for experts in Avestan philology and editors of Avestan texts. This book provides an in-depth structured analysis of this variation, with the aim of bringing order to the chaos present in the manuscripts. In addition, it seeks the origin of this variation, primarily in the recitation of the texts.
Based on this analysis, it also provides a geographical and temporal classification of the manuscripts according to the main orthographic characteristics of each group or subgroup. A fundamental tool for every scholar interested in Avestan philology and Avestan text criticism.
Based on this analysis, it also provides a geographical and temporal classification of the manuscripts according to the main orthographic characteristics of each group or subgroup. A fundamental tool for every scholar interested in Avestan philology and Avestan text criticism.
Jaime Martínez Porro, Ph.D. (1989), research assistant at the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Free University of Berlin. His main fields of research are the Avestan manuscripts and linguistics, as well as the Zoroastrian rituals in Avestan language.
Avestan scholars and students.