Recent additions to the Library

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Several of our most recent additions to the AIIT Library were generously donated. All of these books are now catalogued and available to view in the Library: The founder of Manichaeism : rethinking the Life of Mani: The Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 30 May – 2 June 2016  / Iain Gardner. Cambridge: CUP, 2020 (gift of the publisher). Shelfmark: AIIT.a.2687 A handbook of Khotanese / Ronald E. Emmerick [deceased] ; completed and edited by Mauro Maggi, John S. Sheldon, and …

Updated Duplicates for Sale List – January 2024

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From time to time the Ancient India & Iran Trust advertises duplicate books and periodicals for sale.  Many of these are rare and out of print. We view this as a useful way of helping researchers and also of creating revenue. We have no dedicated income for purchasing current publications so the proceeds from book sales make a direct contribution towards keeping our collections up to date. We have just issued an updated list of nearly 1000 titles which include many duplicates from the collections of Mary Boyce (1920-2006), Professor …

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Just published: Bulletin of the Asia Institute, Vol. 30

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Vol. 30 of the Bulletin of the Asia Institute has just appeared. In addition to many other interesting articles (see full list below) it contains two papers by our Chair of Trustees, Nicholas Sims-Williams. The first is his edition of the Bactrian inscription of Jaghori (Ghazni Province, Afghanistan), the discovery of which we reported in an earlier blog . The inscription is dated in the middle of the 8th century CE, probably in July 757 (140 AH), and commemorates the defeat of an “Indian prince” by a local prince named …

Recent Publications from our Trustees – 2019/2020

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As any recent publications acquired by the Trust are not currently accessible to readers, we thought we would share with you an update of recent publications from some of our Trustees, many of which are Open Access papers and therefore available to download online. Joe Cribb : Cribb, J., ‘Fifth Century Sasanian Coins Found in Guangdong Province, Southern China‘ in Singh, Karan (ed.) Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society ; No. 236, Summer 2019. Cribb, J., ‘The Bimaran Casket: The Problem of Its Date and Significance (abstract)’ in Stargardt, J. …

Updated List of Duplicates for Sale

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From time to time the Ancient India & Iran Trust advertises duplicate books and periodicals for sale.  Many of these are rare and out of print. We view this as a useful way of helping researchers and also of creating revenue. We have no dedicated income for purchasing current publications so the proceeds from book sales make a direct contribution towards keeping our collections up to date. We have just issued an updated list of over 800 titles which include many duplicates from the collections of Mary Boyce (1920-2006), Professor …