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The story of Aḥiḳar from the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek and Slavonic versions / by F.C. Conybeare, J. Rendel Harris, and Agnes Smith Lewis.
Library at the Katz Center - Margolis Collection PJ5209 .A513 1898
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Ahikar (Folktale)
- Language:
- Arabic
- Armenian
- English
- Ethiopic
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Slavic (Other)
- Syriac, Modern
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative literature.
- Physical Description:
- lxxxviii, 162 pages, 1 <<(script l)>>., 72 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London [etc.] : C.J. Clay and Sons, 1898.
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- Slavonic translation.
- Armenian translation.
- Syriac translation.
- Æthiopic translation.
- Arabic translation.
- Greek text.
- Armenian text.
- Syriac text.
- Arabic text.
- Notes:
- The introduction, by J. Rendel Harris, deals with the relation of the story of Aḥiḳar, found in the "Arabian nights" and elsewhere, to the apocryphal Book of Tobit; it also discusses the resemblance of Aḥiḳar to Loḳman and to Aesop, "two characters ... already shown to be identical".
- OCLC:
- 643061
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