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Volume 42 - Issue 3 - October 1979

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Norah M. Titley: Miniatures from Persian manuscripts: a catalogue and subject index of paintings from Persia, India and Turkey in the British Library and the British Museum, xii, 358 pp., 41 plates. London: British Museum Publications Ltd., for the British Library, [1978]. £45.

David Stronach: Pasargadae: a report on the excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. xiv, 326 pp., 192 pl. and 8 foldout diagrams. Oxford: Clarendon press, [1978] £25.

Robert W. Thomson (tr. and comm.): Moses Khorenats'i: History of the Armenians. (Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies, 4.) x, 411 pp., map. Cambridge, Mass and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. £15.75.

Karl H. Potter (ed.): Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies. Indian metaphysics and epistemology: the tradition of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika up to Gangeśa. xv, 744 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, [1977]. £22.40.

Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty and J. Duncan M. Derrett (ed.): The concept of duty in South Asia, xxii, 240 pp. London: Vikas Publishing House Pvt [and] School of Oriental and African Studies, [1978]. £3.50.

A. R. Disney: Twilight of the pepper empire. Portuguese trade in southwest India in the early seventeenth century. (Harvard Historical Studies, XCV.) ix, 220 pp., map. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. £12.95, $18.50.

Leelananda Prematilleke, Kaethigesu Indbapala and J. E. Van Lohuizen-De Leeuw (ed.): Senarat Paranavitana commemoration volume. (Studies in South Asian Culture, Vol. VII.) xi, 300 pp. frontispiece and 13 pi. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. Guilders 180.

Walther Heissig (ed.): Mongolische Ortsnamen. Teil II. Mongolische Manuskriptkarten in Faksimilia. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Hand-schriften in Deutscliland, Supple-mentband 5, 2) XV, 132 pp. plates, 2 folding plates. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1978. DM 68.

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José Van Den Beoeck (tr.): La saveur de Vimmortel (A-p'i-t'an kan lu wei lun): la version chinoise de l' Amftarasa de Ghoşaka (T. 1553). (Publications de I' Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 15.) xii, 260 pp. Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste, 1977.

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Jōji Okazaki: Pure Land Buddhist Painting. Translated and adapted by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis. (Japanese Arts Library, 4.) 201 pp. Tokyo: Kodansha International and Shibundo1977. $12.95. (Distributed in G.B. by Phaidon, £8.50.)

M. B. Hooker: A concise legal history of south-east Asia, xvi, 289 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. £12.

Stefan Seitz: Die zentralafrikanischen Wildbeuterkulturen. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 45.) viii, 241 pp., 11 maps. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. DM 32.

Grace Gredys Harris: Casting out anger: religion among the Taita of Kenya. (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 21) xiii, 193 pp. 8 plates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. £7.95.

Roy Willis (ed. and tr.): There was a certain man: spoken art of the Fipa. [ix], 150 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. £6.50.

Lawrence Richardson: Selected correspondence (1902–1903). Edited by Arthur M. Davey. (Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series, No. 8.) [vii], 219 pp., 8 plates. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1977. Rand 9.

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Rykle Boeger: Assyrische-baby-lonische Zeichenliste, (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 33.) ix, 413 pp. Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon und Bercker [and] Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1978.

I. Hahn, L. Kákosy, E. Maróti and J. Sarkady (ed.): Oikumene (Studia ad historiam antiquam classicam et orientalem. Spectantia 2. Yearbook of the economic and social history of the ancient world.)263 pp. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 1978. $23.

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