Exegisti monumenta

Sundermann, Werner [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Exegisti monumenta : Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams / ed. by Werner Sundermann ; Almut Hintze ; François de Blois. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2009. - XL, 596 S. - (Iranica ; 17)
ISBN 978-3-447-05937-4
EUR 98,00
DDC: 491.5

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. XI
Werner Sundermann, Almut Hintze, François de Blois: Nicholas Sims-Williams. XIII
Publications of Nicholas Sims-Williams. XXV
Abbreviations of Periodicals, Series and Books. XXXIX
1. A. D. H. Bivar: The Rukhkh, Giant Eagle of the Southern Seas. 1
2. François de Blois: A Sasanian Silver Bowl. 13
3. Alberto Cantera: On the History of the Middle Persian Nominal Inflection. 17
4. Carlo G. Cereti: The Pahlavi Signatures on the Quilon Copper Plates (Tabula Quilonensis). 31
5. Johnny Cheung: Two Notes on Bactrian. 51
6. Iris Colditz: The Parthian "Sermon on happiness" (Hunsandīft wifrās). 59
7. Josef Elfenbein: Eastern Hill Balochi. 95
8. Harry Falk: The Name of Vema Takhtu. 105
9. Philippe Gignoux: Les relations interlinguistiques de quelques termes de la pharmacopée antique. II. 117
10. Jost Gippert: An Etymological Trifle. 127
11. Gherardo Gnoli: Some Notes upon the Religious Significance of the Rabatak Inscription. 141
12. Frantz Grenet: The Pahlavi Text Māh ī Frawardīn rōz ī Hordād. A Source of Some Passages of Biruni's Chronology. 161
13. Almut Hintze: Disseminating the Mazdayasnian Religion. An Edition of the Avestan Herbedestan Chapter 5. 171
14. Erica C. D. Hunter: A Jewish Inscription from Jam, Afghanistan. 191
15. Agnes Korn: Lengthening of i and u in Persian. 197
16. Judith A. Lerner: Animal Headdresses on the Sealings of the Bactrian Documents. 215
17. Samuel N. C. Lieu: Epigraphica Nestoriana Serica. 227
18. Vladimir A. Livshits: Sogdian Gems and Seals from the Collection of the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage. 247
19. Maria Macuch: Disseminating the Mazdayasnian Religion. An Edition of the Pahlavi Hērbedestān Chapter 5. 251
20. Mauro Maggi: Hindrances in the Khotanese Book of Vimalakīrti. 279
21. Dieter Maue: Einige uigurische Wörter indischen und iranischen Ursprungs. 293
22. Barbara Meisterernst, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst: The Buddhist Sogdian P 7 and its Chinese Source. 313
23. Enrico Morano: "If they had lived ...": A Sogdian-Parthian Fragment of Mani's Book of Giants. 325
24. Antonio Panaino: The Bactrian Royal Title βαγ[η]-ζνογο / βαγo-ιηζνογο and the Kušān Dynastic Cult. 331
25. Elio Provasi: Versification in Sogdian. 347
26. Christiane Reck The Ascension of the Light Elements and the Imprisonment of Ahriman. The Cosmogonical and Eschatological Part of a Sogdian 'Sammelhandschrift'. 369
27. Rong Xinjiang: Further Remarks on Sogdians in the Western Regions. 399
28. Rüdiger Schmitt: Bemerkungen zu susischen Dareios-Inschriften, vornehmlich auf Glasurziegeln. 417
29. Martin Schwartz: Pouruchista's Gathic Wedding and the Teleological Composition of the Gathas. 429
30. Shaul Shaked: Classification of Linguistic Features in Early Judeo-Persian Texts. 449
31. Patrick Sims-Williams: Celto-Iranica. 463
32. Ursula Sims-Williams: Behind the Scenes: Some Notes on the Decipherment of the Sogdian Manuscripts in the Stein Collection. 469
33. Prods Oktor Skjærvø: OL' News: ODs and Ends. 479
34. Werner Sundermann: Ein manichäischer Traktat über und wider die Christen. 497
35. Elizabeth Tucker: Old Iranian Superlatives in -išta-. 509
36. Étienne de la Vaissière: The Triple System of Orography in Ptolemy's Xinjiang. 527
37. Dieter Weber: A Pahlavi Letter from Egypt Re-visited (P. 44). 537
38. Ehsan Yarshater: Four Tati Sub-Dialects. 551
39. Yutaka Yoshida: Turco-Sogdian features. 571
40. Peter Zieme: Die Preisung des Lichtreichs nach einem alttürkischen Fragment in London. 587

Gefeierte Persönlichkeit

NICHOLAS SIMS-WILLIAMS, Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Profile.

Quellen: Harrassowitz; Institut für Iranistik, FU Berlin; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Buchhandel.de.

Rückschau
Von der gefeierten Person haben wir in Indologica bereits das folgende Werk erfaßt:
[12.05.2008] Sims-Williams: Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan (Vol. 2)