Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia / autor est Thomas Hyde ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Thomas, 1636-1703.

Contributor:

Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh.

Hunt, Thomas, 1696-1774.

Costard, George, 1710-1782.

Oxford University Press, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Historia religionis veterum Persarum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Zoroastrianism--Early works to 1800.

Zoroastrianism.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Bibliothecà Baldigiana (inscription)

Le Conte, John (autograph) (RBC copy)

Loiré (?), de (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 580 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates (5 folded) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 27 cm (4to)

Edition:

Editio secunda.

Other Title:

Historia religionis veterum Persarum.

Magorum liber Sad-der.

Fingerprint:

r.&à s.u- u-e- 34na (3) 1760 (R)

Place of Publication:

Oxonii : E Typographeo Clarendoniano, MDCCLX [1760]

Notes:

Edited by Thomas Hunt and George Costard.

"Magorum liber Sad-der, Zoroastris praecepta et canones continens": p. [441]-512. Translated into Latin, from the Persian metrical paraphrase by Īrānshāh of the original Pahlavi.

"Historiae religionis veterum Persarum appendix, continens aliquot tractatiunculas seu dissertationes": p. [513]-580.

Signatures: [a]-e⁴ A-4C⁴ 4D².

Dedicated to Lord Somers.

Originally published in 1700 under title: Historia religionis veterum Persarum, eorumque magorum ...

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has the bookplate of Henry Charles Lea on inside pastedown and autograph dated 1876 on front free endpaper.

Lea Library copy has inscription on title page that reads "Ex Bibliothecà Baldigiana."

Cited in:

ESTC, T54341

OCLC:

19941858