Historia religionis veterum Persarum, eorumque magorum. . Ubi etiam nova Abrahami, & Mithræ, & Vestæ, & Manetis, &c. Historia, atque angelorum officia & præfecturæ ex veterum Persarum sententiâ. Item, persarum annus ... Zoroastris vita, ejusque et aliorum vaticinia de Messiah è Persarum aliorumque monumentis eruuntur: primitivæ opiniones de Deo & de hominum origine reserantur; originale Orientalis Sibyllæ mysterium recluditur: atque magorum Liber Sad-der (Zoroastris præcepta seu religionis canones continens.) è Persico traductus exhibetur. Dantur veterum Persarum scripturæ & linguæ (ut hæ jam primò Europæ producantur & literato orbi postliminiò reddantur,) specimina. De Persiæ ejusdemque linguæ nominibus; déque hujus dialectis & à modernâ differentiis, strictim agitur. Author est Thomas Hyde S.T.D. Ling. Hebraicæ in Universitate Oxon. Professor Regius, & Ling. Arab. Prof. Laudianus. Præmisso capitum elencho, accedunt icones, & appendix variarum dissertationem.
Thomas Hyde (1636-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3135650
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32],556p.,16 plates (1 folded) . ill.. . 4to.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: R/6 [pencil]; S.6.27 [black ink]. Pencil "314" on free endpaper verso. Provenance: Possibly Lord Somers's dedication copy? Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Early eighteenth-century red goat over boards, gilt tooling on spine and board edges and inners, gilt tooling in rectangular compartment design on covers, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh