Rediscovery of a 17th-century miscellany of Asian scripts
guest post by Dr Katja Triplett (Marburg/Leipzig) Original Manchu and Tibetan manuscripts, the models for two engraved plates in Thomas Hyde’s celebrated History of Religion of the Old Persians (1700), have been rediscovered in the Bodleian Library. The Bodleian Library is home to some of the earliest books printed with a European letter press on … Continue reading “Rediscovery of a 17th-century miscellany of Asian scripts”