Shelfmark
Ak.6.22
Author
Title
Historia religionis veterum Persarum, eorumque magorum. Ubi etiam nova Abrahami, & Mithræ, & Vestæ, & Manetis, &c. historia, atque angelorum officia & præfecturæ ex veterum Persarum sententia. Item, Persarum annus ... explicatur. Zoroastris vita, ejusque et aliorum vaticinia de Messiah è Persarum aliorumque monumentis eruuntur: primitivæ opiniones de Deo & de hominum origine referantur; originale Orientalis Sibyllæ mysterium recluditur: atque magorum liber Sad-der ... e Persico traductus exhibetur. Dantur veterum Persarum scripturæ & linguæ ... specimina. De Persiæ ejusdemque linguæ nominibus; déque hujus dialectis & à moderna differentiis, strictim agitur. Autor est Thomas Hyde ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1700.
Physical description
[32], 556p, XVIII plates (some folded, one printed on both sides) ; 4to.
Note
Previously Ck.5.7.
Note
Main body of text in Latin with Persian excerpts.
Note
"Sad dar" originally in Pahlavi, here translated into Latin from the Persian metrical paraphrase by Iranshah (BL). Persian and Latin in parallel columns.
Note
Half-title.
Note
Wants final plate?
Citation/references note
Wing H3876
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Waddington bookplate; donated to Eton by Edward Waddington in 1731.
Binding
18th century blind-stamped calf.
Subject
Subject
Zoroastrianism Early works to 1800.
Subject
Iran Religion Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
lat per
Identifier
B11045