Sir Harold Bailey on film at the Trust

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Simon Pulleyn, a longstanding Friend of the Trust, recently drew our attention to a 1985 documentary, Queens’: A Cambridge College, in which the Trust and its first Chair, Sir Harold Bailey, appear in Episode 7, ‘Fellowship’. Two research students visit Sir Harold at the Trust. They are shown around his library in the Iran Room and given a taste of the Pahlavi Zoroastrian scripture, the Bundahišn. As he tells the students, he began work on that edition of the Bundahišn in 1933 but stopped and only resumed his work on …

Duplicate Books for Sale – March 2025

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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. The latest list for March 2025 (over 1000 titles) includes many duplicates from the collections of Mary Boyce (1920-2006), Professor of Iranian Studies …

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 …

Joe Cribb Honoured

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Our trustee Joe Cribb was honoured at an event at the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) on 18 April. The event was a celebration of Joe’s 75th birthday and the publication produced in recognition of his contribution to numismatics: Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday. This title was chosen because of the frequency with which Joe has reminded fellow researchers to look at the coins themselves rather than relying on secondary sources. Joe’s colleagues Helen Wang, Robert Bracey and Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis all …

Marti Wilson 1931-2024

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By Brendan Griggs Marti Wilson, who died at the age of 92 in Tucson Arizona on 23 February, was a close friend of the Trust and will be greatly missed by all of us in Cambridge who knew her.  Marti was born and raised in New Richland, Minnesota. Trained as a therapist at the Adler Institute of Chicago, she married Howard Wilson, a distinguished scholar of comparative religions, with whom she travelled the world, visiting over 50 countries. They were married for 44 years, settling for a while in Cambridge, …