Historia religionis veterum Persarum, eorumque magorum :. Ubi etiam nova Abrahami, & Mithrae, & Vestae, & Manetis, &c. Historia, atque angelorum officia & praefecturae ex veterum Persarum sententiâ. Item, Persarum annus antiquissimus tangitur ... Zoroastris vita, ejusque et aliorum vaticinia de Messiah è Persarum aliorumque monumentis eruuntur: primitivae opiniones de Deo & de hominum origine reserantur; originale Orientalis Sibyllae mysterium recluditur: atque magorum Liber Sad-der (Zoroastris praecepta seu religionis canones continens.) è Persico traductus exhibetur. Dantur veterum Persarum scripturae & linguae (ut hae jam primò Europae producantur & literato orbi postliminiò reddantur,) specimina. De Persiae ejusdemque linguae nominibus; déque hujus dialectis & à modernâ differentiis, strictim agitur /
Thomas Hyde (1636-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3187567
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 556 p., XVI leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 4to. Provenance: eighteenth century armorial bookplate with inscription "Moses Longman of Clapham" on front pastedown. Marginal annotations and underscorings in a number of different eighteenth century hands throughout. Binding: eighteenth century blind-tooled sprinkled calf; gilt tooling on edges of boards; gilt tooled title label reading "Hyde Religionis Persarum" on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and brown.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh