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. Author est Thomas Hyde S.T.D. Ling. Hebraicae in Universitate Oxon. Professor Regius, & Ling. Arab. Prof. Laudianus. Praemisso capitum elencho, accedunt icones, & appendix variarum dissertationem.
Thomas Hyde (1636-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1700
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3188543
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32], 556 p., xvi leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 4to. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, bordered, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]; pasted over former owner's bookplate, apparently that of Richard Banner. Binding: eighteenth-century marbled calf; triple gold fillet and gilt tooled centre panel; remanants of gilt tooled spine; four raised bands.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) Īrānshāh ibn Malikshāh