GENERAL LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
C.—Macan's edition of the Sháhnáma
L.—Lumsden'sDo.
P.—Mohl'sdo.
T.—Tihrándo.
V.—Vullers'do.
AM.The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville, Knight … Edited … by John Ashton.
AS.The Sháh Námeh of .. Firdausí. Translated and abridged. … By James Atkinson Esq.
BAG.A History of Ancient Geography. By E. H. Bunbury F.R.G.S.
BAN.A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. … By Richard F. Burton.
BBR.Buddhist Records of the Western World. Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen Tsiang (A.D. 629). By Samuel Beal.
BCM.The Chahár Maqála (“Four Discourses”) of Nidhámî-i-'Arúdí-i-Samarquandí. Translated into English by Edward G. Browne, M.A., M.B.
BGDF.The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon. Edited by J. B. Bury, M.A.
BHA.The History of Alexander the Great, being the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes. Edited … with an English Translation and Notes, by Ernest A. Wallis Budge, M.A.
BLEA.The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, being a Series of Translations of the Ethiopic Histories of Alexander. … By E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A.
BLHP.A Literary History of Persia. By Edward G. Browne, M.A.
BLRE.History of the Lower Roman Empire. By J. B. Bury.
BPB.Photius: Bibliotheca. Ex Recensione Immanuelis Bek-keri.
CIG.Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum.
CTC.Theophanis Chronographia. Ex Recensione Ioannis Classeni.
DAA.Arriani Anabasis … F. Dübner.
DAI.Arriani Indica … F. Dübner.
DEI.J. Darmesteter, Études Iraniennes.
DFKHP.History of the Parsis. By Dosabhai Framji Karaka, C.S.I.
DHAThe History of Antiquity. From the German of Professor Max Duncker. By the late Evelyn Abbot, M.A.
DZA.Professor Darmesteter's Trans. of the Zandavasta in the Sacred Books of the East. Reference to Parts* and pages.
EHI.The History of India as told by its own Historians. By Sir H. M. Elliot, K.C.B.
EP.Eastern Persia, an Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission, 1870-71-72.
GDF.The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. Edited, with additional Notes, by William Smith, L.L.D.
GH.The Land of the Hittites. … By John Garstang, D.Sc.
GHP.Histoire des Perses par le Comte de Gobineau.
GIP.Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie.
GKS.Kleine Schriften von Alfred von Gutschmid.
GYZ.Geiger: Das Yátkár-i Zarírán und sein Verhältniss zum Sáhnáme. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-philolo-gischen und historischen Classe der k.b. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München. 1890. Bd. II. Heft I. p. 43.
HAP.History of Art in Persia from the French of Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez.
HB.The Country of Balochistan. … By A. W. Hughes, F.R.G.S.
HEP.Essays on the Sacred Language, Writing and Religion of the Parsis. By Martin Haug, Ph. D. Edited and enlarged by E. W. West, Ph. D.
HIE.The Indian Empire. By W. W. Hunter, C.S.I., C.I.E., L.L.D.
HLP.The Legend of Perseus. By E. S. Hartland.
HQC.Q. Curtius Rufus … ed. Edmundus Hedicke.
HRVP.Veterum Persarum … Religionis Historia. Ed. 2nd. By Thomas Hyde.
HS.Syntagma Dissertationum quas olim auctor doctissimus Thomas Hyde S.T.P. separatim edidit.
JFB.The earliest English version of the Fables of Bidpai … now again edited and induced by Joseph Jacobs.
JP.Persia Past and Present, by Professor A. V. Williams Jackson.
JRGS.The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.
JZ.Zoroaster. By A. V. Williams Jackson.
KA.Asia. By A. H. Keane, F.R.G.S.
KUR.Kitab-i-Yamini of Al Utbi. Translated by the Rev. James Reynolds, B.A.
LAN.The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic. … By Edward William Lane.
LEC.The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. By G. Le Strange.
LPC.A View of the History and Coinage of the Parthians. By John Lindsay, Esq.
MA.Alexandre le Grand … Par Paul Meyer.
MCAI.Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian. … By J. W. M'Crindle, M.A.
MCI.The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great. … By J. W. M'Crindle, M.A. … New Edition.
MF.Reliqua Arriani et Scriptorum de rebus Alexandri M. Fragmenta collegit … Carolus Müller.
MGN.Narrative of a Journey through the Province of Khorassan, etc. By Colonel C. M. MacGregor, C.S.I., C.I.E.
MHP.History of Persia. By Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B.
MLM.The Life of Muhammad. By William Muir, Esq.
MM.Maçoudi: Les Prairies d'Or. Texte et traduction par C Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille.
MPC.Pseudo-Callisthenes, primum edidit Carolus Mullerus.
MSJP.A Second Journey through Persia, etc. By James Morier Esq.
MZA.Rev. L. H. Mills' Trans. of the Zandavasta in the Sacred Books of the East. Reference to Part and pages.
NAR.Beiträge zur Geschichte des Alexanderromans, von Prof. Dr. Th. Nöldeke in Denkschriften der … Akademie der Wissenschaften … Wien, 1890.
NIN.Das Iranische Nationalepos von Theodor Nöldeke.
NK.Geschichte des Artachšîr i Pâpakán aus dem Pellewi über-setzt … von Th. Nöldeke.
NPS.Nöldeke: Persische Studien. II. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. CXXVI. Band.
NSEH.Sketches from Eastern History. By Theodor Nöldeke. English Translation.
NT.Geschichte der Perser und Araber zut Zeit der Sasaniden … von Th. Nöldeke.
OHS.The History of the Saracens. By Simon Ockley. Fourth Edition.
RFGM.The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World. By George Rawlinson, M.A.
RH.The History of Herodotus. … By George Rawlinson, M.A.
RK.The Koran translated from the Arabic. By J. M. Rodwell. Second Edition.
RM.(In Vols. III and IV) The Mahábhárata translated into English Prose (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli). Published by Pratápa Chandra Rái, C.I.E. (Elsewhere) The Rauzat-us-safa; or, Garden of Purity… By … Mirkhond … Translated by E. Rehatsek.
RP.(In Vols. I and V) Records of the Past. First Series. (Elsewhere) Professor Rawlinson's Parthia in the Story of the Nations' Series.
RPNS.Records of the Past. Second Series.
RSM.The Seventh Great Or??tal Monarchy. By George Raw-linson, M.A.
SAC.The Chronology of Ancient Nations … of Alb?? … translated … by Dr. C. Edward Sachau.
SHC.The “Higher Criticism” and the Verdict of the Monu­ments. By the Rev. A. H. Sayce.
SK.The Koran … Translated … by George Sale, Gent.
SM.History of the Early Kings of Persia … Translated from the o??iginal … Persian of Mirkhood … by David Shea.
SP.The Periplus of the Erythr?? Sea … Translated from the Greek and annotated by Wilfrid H. Schoff, A.M.
STD.The Dab??stán … Translated … by David Shea and Authony Troyer.
WLS.In the Land of the Lion and Sun … By C. J. Wills, M.D.
WPR.The Pársí Religion. By John Wilson.
WPT.Dr. E. W. West's Trans. of the Pa?? Texts in the S??ed Books of the East. Reference to Parts and pages.
YMP.The Book of Sir Marco Polo … newly translated… By Colonel Henry Yale, C.B.
ZT.Chronique de Abon-Djafar-Mo'hammed-Ben-Djaris-Ben-Yezid Tab??, trad?? … Par M. Hermann Zotenburg.