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Persian Philological Texts

The book of Omar and Rubáiyát

The South Asia Collection at Yale began in earnest in the 1840s after Prof. Edward Salisbury began teaching Sanskrit and consequently endowed the Edward E. Salisbury Professorship of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology. Through the Arcadia grant, the South Asia Collection at Yale University is expanding its digital presence. Twenty Persian philology books, some of which were signed by Salisbury himself, were cataloged, preserved, and digitized.

Dwight Whitney on Sanskrit Cerebrals

Many students of Sanskrit have, over the years, used and occasionally disagreed with Monier-Williams' "Practical grammar of the Sanskrit language". Dwight Whitney, one of the early founders of the Yale South Asia Collection, is no exception! Looking through the older Sanskrit books in Sterling Memorial Library, you will frequently find handwritten notes that are over a hundred years old. 

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An image from an 1883 edition of Hāzā kitāb-i Shīrūyah nāmdār, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah

An image from an 1883 edition of Hāzā kitāb-i Shīrūyah nāmdār, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah, which was recently digitized as part of the Old Yale Persian project, funded by the Arcadia Foundation. You can read more about the project, along with a complete list of the titles that were digitized on the Yale Library South Asia Persian Guide.

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