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PERKINS, Justin.
A Residence of Eight Years in Persia, Among the Nestorian Christians, with Notices of the Muhammedans.
In 1827 Persia was visited by the missionary Dr. Joseph Wolff, who was a traveler, and a voluminous writer. This latter fact was due to the decision of the ABCFM [American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions] to send men in 1830 to examine the condition of the Nestorian Church, as described by Dr. Wolf[f]. As a result, the ABCFM determined to establish a mission for the Nestorians. The missionary Justin Perkins (1805-1869) – an alumnus of Amherst College and Andover Theological Seminary – and his wife Charlotte Bass (1808-1897) embarked for Persia in the autumn of 1833, reaching Tabriz about a year later. In the summer of 1835, the physician Dr. Asahel Grant and his wife joined them, and in November 1835 the two missionaries and their wives arrived at Urmiah, where they founded a mission station. A mission school was established a few years later. Perkins became an ‘eminent Syriac scholar’ (Smith) through learning the local language from Nestorian clerics and developed an alphabet for the writing of Neo-Aramaic or modern Syriac, using the classical Syriac script, which enabled him to embark upon a translation of the Bible into modern Syriac in 1839.
- Published
- Andover: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1843.
- References
- Smith (American Travellers) p57; Ghani 200; Schwab 440; Wilson 169; Hiler 699.
- Plates
- 23
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Andover: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1843.
- Ref
- 462
FIRST EDITION. Contemporary full calf with gilt title on black spine label cover; rubbed joints; repaired corner wear; pencil signature on title; lightly foxed but good and sound. 8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xviii [ii] 512 pp complete with 27 lithographed plates including 23 which are hand coloured; folding map; glossary. Smith (American Travellers) P57: 'An eminent Syriac scholar the author spent the years from 1799 to 1841 in northwestern Persia'. The author describes his voyage to Malta, Constantinople to Trebizond Erzroom to Erivan Tabreez Oroomiah, etc. Much of the book is based on his journals on the spot over many years. The map shows much of Turkey with Koordistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Persia. Most of the coloured plates show persons in different costumes; others are of views. Coloured plates in order: 1. A Koordish Warrior. 2. A Nestorian of the Mountains. 3. Mission Seminary at Oroomiah. 4. Governor of Oroomiah. 5. Priest Abraham of Ooroomiah. 6. Mar Elias, a Nestorian bishop. 7. Priest Zadoc, Brother of the Nestorian Patriarch. 8. A Moolah, or Persian Priest. 9. Mar Gabriel, a Nestorian bishop. 10. A Persian Lady at Home. 11. A Persian Lady veiled to walk abroad. 12. A Persian Lady veiled to go abroad. 13. A Nestorian Girl carrying water. 14. A Nestorian Girl with her ornaments. 15. A Nestorian Mother & her little girl. 16. A Persian Dervish. 17. Selim Koordish, Pasha of Amadiah. 18. [Caption cropped out] 19. Dunka, a Nestorian Priest from the Mountains. 20. A Persian Meerza, or Scribe. 21. A Persian Soldier. 22. A Persian Muleteer, with his Winter Cloak of Goatskin. 23. A Persian Merchant.
