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
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3135651
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 556 p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Running number: 3647. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's collation note: "Tab. 13. ad pag. 384. inserta, debuit inseri ad p. 407". Binding: late seventeenth-century panelled calf; double blind fillet border; central panel of double and single blind fillets, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillet and roll pattern decoration on spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh