Opuscula Manichaica

This volume collects all the publications of Nicholas Sims-Williams, which include editions of Manichaean texts in Middle Iranian languages (Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian and Bactrian) or studies of their vocabulary and grammar, including important articles first published in Festschriften and other hard-to-find volumes. The author has revised all the articles and updated them as needed with additional notes in square brackets, leaving the text as it was in the original publications. Wherever possible, the author has added colour photographs of the texts edited. The work is enriched by selective indexes of Middle Iranian and Turkish texts from Turfan and Dunhuang published or discussed in the articles, of words discussed, Manichaean divine beings, concepts, technical terms, names of persons, place names, scripts, languages, etc. The book will be an important tool for students and scholars interested in Manichaeism, Iranian languages, and the history, religions and literatures of Central Asia.

Foreword
Bibliography
Abbreviations

1. The Middle Iranian fragments in Sogdian script from the Mannerheim collection (by Nicholas Sims-Williams & Harry Halén)

2. The Sogdian fragments of Leningrad [I]

3. Remarks on the Sogdian letters γ and x (with special reference to the orthography of the Sogdian version of the Manichaean church-history)

4. Notes on Manichaean Middle Persian morphology

5. Indian elements in Parthian and Sogdian

6. The Manichaean commandments: A survey of the sources

7. A new fragment from the Parthian hymn-cycle Huyadagmān

8. The Sogdian fragments of Leningrad III: Fragments of the Xwāstwānīft

9. The Sogdian fragments of Leningrad II: Mani at the court of the Shahanshah

10. Aurentēs

11. The Bactrian fragment in Manichaean script (M1224)

12. A haunch of meat: A fable of Aesop in Sogdian and Old Turkish

13. Remarks on the phonology of the Manichaean Bactrian fragment

14. The vocative singular feminine in Sogdian

15. A Manichaean Sogdian hymn in two scripts

16. A multilingual Manichaean calendar from Turfan (U130)

17. The Wisdom of Aḥiqar and the Wisdom of Ādurbād: A Manichaean parallel

18. The Turtle and the Geese: A Pañcatantra fable in Sogdian

19. Two Sogdian dice-divination texts

20. The ‘Seven Efficacious Jewels’: The Manichaean scriptures in an unpublished Sogdian text (by Enrico Morano, Mohammad Shokri-Foumeshi & Nicholas Sims-Williams

21. Reading the heavens: Three Manichaean Sogdian manuscripts (by Nicholas Sims-Williams & Bi Bo 毕波)

22. Of moths, grubs and worms

Selective index of Middle Iranian and Turkish texts from Turfan and Dunhuang published or discussed
Selective index of words discussed
General index