Nicholas Sims-Williams. Bactrian Documents prom Northern Afghanistan I: Legal and Economic Documents (revised edition)

摘要

The second book under review here is the revised edition of the first volume BD I. In this book, some corrections are listed in BD II under 'Corrigenda', and other corrections are incorporated. The revised book consists of two parts. The first part is comprised of a list of documents at the beginning of the book. Under the heading 'List of Documents' is a description of the standard formats of these documents. Details for each document are also given: the type of document, the date (in the case of the dated documents), a description including the format, the page (recto or verso), the number of lines, other visible characteristics, sealing, and at the end, the name of collection. The last part of this chapter is a list of documents from the Khalili Collection included in this volume.