What is the dating of the earliest manuscript of the Book of Arda Wiraz?

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According to the Encyclopedia Iranica's entry on Pahlavi literature, the oldest known manuscripts of this work are two codices called "K20" and "M51".

K20 is a manuscript collection of several works in a single volume. It was acquired in Bombay around 1820 by Rasmus Rask, a Danish linguist, and it is currently in the Royal Library of Denmark. This, and other books collected at the same time, are collectively known as the Codices Hafnienses. A recent facsimile and English translation of its version of Arda Wiraz are available as Ardā Wirāz Nāmag: The Iranian 'Divina Commedia' by Fereydun Vahman (Routledge, 2016), and the entire collection is in Codices Avestici et Pahlavici Bibliothecae Universitatis Hafniensis (Copenhagen: Levin and Munksgaard), with K20 found in volume 1. One of the included texts is dated 1351, so the codex must have been put into its current form at some point after that year.

M51 apparently has a more certain date; it "was written in 766 Y./1397, by Pišotan Rām, and derives ultimately from a copy written by Mihrpānāg Srōšayār, Hērbad of Nēšābur", according to the Encyclopedia Iranica, and currently resides in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich where they call it "Cod. Zend. 51a". It's also known as H6 in some scholarly sources because it used to be in the private possession of Martin Haug (a professor at Munich). There is no published edition of this manuscript, but it has been scanned and can be read online assuming you read the language. Additional discussion of this manuscript can be found in Die Zendhandschriften der K. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in München by Christian Bartholomae (1915), p38-72, if you read German.

Additionally, Haug's edition (The Book of Arda Viraf: The Pahlavi Text, Martin Haug and E. H. West, 1872) includes more detail on these and other manuscript sources in its long introduction. More recent scholarship may have disagreed on some of the conclusions, but it doesn't look like any older extant manuscript has been unearthed.

None of this means that the text itself was composed in the late 14th century. Scholarly dating to the 9th or 10th centuries will be based on other historical and linguistic considerations, but since this is a 200-year span of time, it's evident that we don't have much data that would yield any more precise date.

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