Miscellaneous hymns : middle persian and parthian hymns in the Turfan collection / Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst

• Superior document: Berliner Turfantexte 31
• VerfasserIn: Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond 1958-
• Place / Publishing House: Turnhout : Brepols, 2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Berliner Turfantexte 31
• Physical Description: 442 S., 7 Bl.; Ill.
• ISBN: 9782503546285; 2503546285
• ac_no: AC13318890
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst

This is an edition of a large number of fragments of Middle Persian and Parthian Manichaean hymns in the Berlin Turfan Collection. M. Boyce in the register of her 1960 'Catalogue of the Iranian Manuscripts in Manichaean script' in the German Turfan Collection identified fragments of hymns 'to the Third Messenger' (group 44); 'Parthian hymns written in couplets, unclassified' (group 58) and 'Hymns, unclassified, including poems' (group 81). Though some of these fragments have been published in the meantime and others are very small, this yields more than 250 previously unpublished fragments, many of considerable size. The fragments are presented in diplomatic edition together with a transcription and translation into English. Since most of the hymns are abecedarian they are presented as far as possible in strophic form. An extensive introduction, notes, a complete glossary and facsimiles of joined fragments accompany the edition