Author: Bartholomae, Christian
Title: Zum Sasanidischen Recht IV [only]
Description: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, Heidelberg, 1922, 1st edition. Paperback, G. 65pp, pages un-opened, edges of the wrappers & text block a little worn, a good copy. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse Jahrgang 1922, 5. Abhandlung. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ Selections from the Pahlavi Sasanian law book Madayan I Hazar Dadestan, ( which had been published shortly before by J. J. Modi ) by the noted German linguisist Christian Bartholomae [ 1855 - 1925 ]. Bartholomae focused on the philological interpretation of the text and translated and commented on only a selection of its juridical decisions. His transcription of the Pahlavi script was based on purely historical principles, and for words of unknown or uncertain interpretation or pronunciation he employed the same mechanical trans­literation he had used in his opus, the Wörterbuch [ Ency. Iranica ]

Keywords: islam, islamic history, persian history, iran, iranian history, law, legal history, linguistics, pahlavi, sasanids