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Metrical passages in the Khotanese Saṃghāṭa-sūtra (2023)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N. (2023). Metrical passages in the Khotanese Saṃghāṭa-sūtra. Indo-Iranian Journal, 66(2), 97-126. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06602002

The Buddhist Sanskrit Saṃghāṭa-sūtra includes several longer or shorter passages in verse, mostly ślokas. Many though not all of these verse passages also appear in metrical form in the Khotanese version, which makes use of all three of the metres kn... Read More about Metrical passages in the Khotanese Saṃghāṭa-sūtra.

The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary (2023)
Thesis
Grassi, C. The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive study of chapter 56 and 57 of the Yasna, a text known as Srōš Yašt, that is the Avestan hymn dedicated to the god Sraōša. The thesis includes a new critical edition of the text, based on 31 liturgi... Read More about The Avestan Hymn to Sraoša - Yasna 56 and 57: A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossary.

From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection (2019)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2019). From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection. Brepols

Containing a variety of texts ranging from liturgy to pharmacology via hagiography, calendars and ascetical works by Isaac of Nineveh, this volume completes the publication of all known Christian Sogdian texts. This volume completes the publication o... Read More about From Liturgy to Pharmacology: Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection.

A multilingual Manichean calendar from Turfan (U130) (2019)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2019). A multilingual Manichean calendar from Turfan (U130). In Z. Gulácsi (Ed.), Language, society, and religion in the world of the Turks : Festschrift for Larry Clark at seventy-five (251-266). Brepols

Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan (2018)
Book
Sims-Williams, N., & De Blois, F. (2018). Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1wxr4d

More than 150 documents in Bactrian, the chief administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light during the last twenty-five years. These documents include letters, legal contracts, economic documents and a few Buddhist texts; ma... Read More about Studies in the chronology of the Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan.

A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English (2016)
Book
Sims-Williams, N. (2016). A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English. Reichert. https://doi.org/10.29091/9783752005660

Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to both Iranists and Syriacists, giving a full semantic and morphological an... Read More about A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English.

A Sasanian silver bowl (2009)
Book Chapter
De Blois, F. (2009). A Sasanian silver bowl. In W. Sundermann, & N. Sims-Williams (Eds.), Exegisti monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (13-16). Harrassowitz

Jaḡatu (2008)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). Jaḡatu. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol.14/4 (372-373). Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation Inc

Bactrian tallies (2008)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). Bactrian tallies. In B. Huber, M. Volkart, & P. Widmer (Eds.), Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek, Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (525-523). International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

The Sogdian potentialis (2008)
Book Chapter
Sims-Williams, N. (2008). The Sogdian potentialis. In M. Macuch, M. Maggi, & W. Sundermann (Eds.), Iranian languages and texts from Iran and Turan. Ronald E. Emmerick memorial volume (377-386). Harrassowitz