RESEARCHES IN MANICHAEISM, with Special Reference to the Turfan Fragments by Jackson, A.V. Williams - 1932

New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. This book, besides including an introductory sketch of Manichaeism, contains also several critical translations made from original Manichaean documents in Turfan Pahlavi, or Middle Persian, which were discovered in Central Asia during the first decade of the present century and a little later. These fragmentary texts are given here in a transliterated form, and in three cases out of four the word-for-word translation is followed by a somewhat freer version. There are also full notes of a philological and illustrative character." Octavo: 393 p. with a folding diagram. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. The ink signature of noted Buddhist scholar Robert P. Jackson on the front flyleaf. Faint evidence of a removed bookplate to the front pastedown. The spine is lightly faded, with some minor offsetting to the rear board from an old acetate cover; else very good.