companion volume I to A history of Persian literature /
edited by Ronald E. Emmerick & Maria Macuch ; general editor, Ehsan Yarshater.
New York :
Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
xxvii, 522 pages ;
24 cm.
A history of Persian literature ;
vol. 17
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-508) and indexes.
The main object of this volume is to provide an overview of the most important extant literary sources in Old and Middle Iranian languages--the languages of the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian periods culminating in the resource of Pahlavi Persian which fed so directly into the language of the later great Persian poets. --From publisher's description.