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, is [tou] Gjemshîd detegitur, verus [tou] Yézdegherd de novo proditur, is [tou] Melicshâh expenditur, is [tou] Selgjûk & [tou] Chorzemshâh notatur, & is [tes] Katâ & [tes] Oighûr explicatur. 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 & linquae (ut hae jam primò Europae producantur & Literato Orbi postliminiò reddantur,) specimina. De Persiae ejusdemque linguae nominibus; déque hujus dialectis & à modernâ differentiis, strictim agitur
Autor est Thomas Hyde S.T.D. Ling. Hebraicae in Universitate Oxon. Professor Regius, & Ling. Arab. Prof. Laudianus. Praemisso capitum Elencho, accedunt icones, & appendix variarum dissertationum
Other Title
Half-title: Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religio
Included Titles
Ṡad dar. Latin
Magorum liber Sad-Der, Zoroastris praecepta et canones continens: in usum Ecclesiae Magorum & Fidelium corum omnium
Historiae religionis veterum Persarum appendix, continens aliquot Tractatiunculas seu Dissertationes, in quibus paulò uberiús tractantur pauca quaedam tantùm leviter tacta in superiore Opere
32 unnumbered pages, 556 pages, IV, VI-XVI leaves of plates (some folded, 1 double-sided), 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, facsimile ; 22 cm
OCLC
ocm08150411, ocm08150411
Text in Latin with quotations/passages in Persian. The words 'tou' and 'tes' in the title are transliterated from the Greek. The plates include specimen scripts in various Oriental languages including Aramaic, Georgian, Moghul, Armenian, Tartar, Chinese and Greek.
Notes to the bookbinder (in Latin and English) respecting the plates are on signature c³ verso.
The Ṡad dar is translated into Latin. from the Persian metrical paraphrase by Īrānshāh of the original Pahlavi. cf Brit. mus. Catalogue.
Plates signed: "MBurghers sculp."
Signatures: [a]⁴, b-d⁴, A-3Z⁴ 4A².
English short title catalogue, R1927
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), H3876
British Museum. General catalogue of printed books, volume 110, column 231
Historia religionis veterum Persarum eorúmque Magorum, &c. -- Magorum liber Sad-Der, Zoroastris praecepta et canones continens: In usum Ecclesiae Magorum & Fidelium corum omnium -- Historiae religionis veterum Persarum appendix, continens aliquot Tractatiunculas seu Dissertationes, in quibus paulò uberiús tractantur pauca quaedam tantùm leviter tacta in superiore Opere