Kalilag und Damnag
Subtitle: alte syrische Übersetzung des indischen Fürstenspiegels
By: Text und deutsche Übersetzung von Gustav Bickell ; mit einer Einleitung von Theodor Benfey.
Contributors: Bickell, Gustav, 1838-1906.; Benfey, Theodor, 1809-1881.
Publisher: F.A. Brockhaus
Published: 1876
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger; syr
Number of pages: 132
Other titles: Fables of Bidpai. German & Syriac.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Syriac (Nestorian) text and German translation of: Kalilā ṿa-Dimnā. Version of a collection of Indian animal fables, known as the Fables of Bidpai.
LC copy: Weber Collection 3197. Bound, with original paper wrappers. Annotations by Albrecht Weber on recto of upper free endpaper and scattered throughout text. Clipping (from a serial) entitled "Kunst- und literarische Nachrichten," tipped in. Four items laid in: folded leaf of ms. notes by Weber; leaf of typewritten text in English, containing background information about this work; offprint of a review of this work by E. Prym (8 p. ; 21 cm.) from Literaturzeitung, Jahrg. 1878, Artikel 118; part of an envelope addressed to Weber at the University of Berlin.
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