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 "corpus": "avesta",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-22/03",
 "title": "The Avesta in Geldner's Edition (Stuttgart, 1886–96) — the Volume with the Prolegomena, and the Vendidad",
 "edition": "Karl F. Geldner, Avesta: the Sacred Books of the Parsis (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1896) — the copy holding Geldner's Prolegomena, with the text as the scan shows it; Digital Library of India copy; Karl F. Geldner, Avesta: the Sacred Books of the Parsis, vol. III: Vendidad (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1896)",
 "language": "ave (Avestan), Avestan script",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain: the Avesta is of the second and first millennia BCE in its composition. Karl F. Geldner, Avesta: the Sacred Books of the Parsis (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1886–96), is public domain. Internet Archive scans of public-domain volumes.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-23",
 "origin": {
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    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "dli.ministry.10011",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.10011",
    "files": [
     "E01821_Avesta_the_Sacred_Books_of_the_Parsis.pdf",
     "E01821_Avesta_the_Sacred_Books_of_the_Parsis_djvu.txt"
    ]
   },
   {
    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "avestasacredbook03geld_269",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/avestasacredbook03geld_269",
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     "avestasacredbook03geld_269_djvu.txt"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "fetched": "2026-10-23",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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  "count": 2,
  "units": "one text file per work",
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    "slug": "avesta-geldner-prolegomena",
    "work": "Karl F. Geldner, Avesta: the Sacred Books of the Parsis (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1896) — the copy holding Geldner's Prolegomena, with the text as the scan shows it; Digital Library of India copy",
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     "original/dli.ministry.10011/E01821_Avesta_the_Sacred_Books_of_the_Parsis.pdf",
     "original/dli.ministry.10011/E01821_Avesta_the_Sacred_Books_of_the_Parsis_djvu.txt"
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    "class": "Avestan",
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    "slug": "avesta-geldner-iii-vendidad",
    "work": "Karl F. Geldner, Avesta: the Sacred Books of the Parsis, vol. III: Vendidad (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1896)",
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     "original/avestasacredbook03geld_269/avestasacredbook03geld_269_djvu.txt"
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    "class": "Avestan",
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 "normalization": "Internet Archive OCR text layers as fetched, uncorrected (text/<slug>.ocr.txt); the scan under original/<identifier>/ is the witness. Where the text layer is noise over a script (cuneiform, Avestan), the scan is the only reading.",
 "scope": "Geldner's critical Avesta as far as open scans reach: the issue with the Prolegomena and the third volume, the Vendidad. Which parts of the Yasna and Yashts the first item holds is read from its scan; Geldner's volume II (Vispered and Khorda Avesta) was not found in an open scan in this pass: QUEUED. The Gathas, the hymns of Zarathustra, are Yasna 28–34, 43–51 and 53.",
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  "Geldner, the Prolegomena — 'PROLEGOMENA.' (the Avestan script is read from the scan)",
  "Geldner III, title — 'V E N D I D A D'"
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 "loci_not_found": [],
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 "why_seated": "The scripture of the Zoroastrian tradition, whose dualism, angelology and last judgment the Second Temple apocalypses on the same shelf inherit.",
 "spine": "Avesta",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim? i might be miswriting this. recent discovery. if theyre available anywhere.\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\""
}