Remarks on the colophon of the Avestan manuscripts Pt4 and Mf4

Abstract

Este artículo presenta una nueva transcripción, transliteración y traducción de la parte central del colofón Pahlavi de los manuscritos avésticos Pt4 y Mf4.

This paper provides a transcription, transliteration and translation of the central part of the Pahlavi colophon to the avestan manuscripts Pt4 and Mf4, in which the history of the manuscripts is recounted. This leads us to interpret the preface differently from our predecessors: the reunion of the Avestan and the Pahlavi texts in one manuscript must be dated before 1020 AD rather than after it, as was hitherto assumed.