Avestan literature - A. Hintze -- - Inscriptional literature in Old and Middle Iranian languages - Ph. Huyse -- - Pahlavi literature - M. Macuch -- - Manichaean literature in Iranian languages - W. Sundermann -- - Christian literature in Middle Iranian languages - N. Sims-Williams -- - Buddhist literature in Sogdian - Y. Yoshida -- - Khotanese literature - M. Maggi
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
