What Kind of Poetry Would a Syriac Manuscript-Thief Read about Oneself?
In the modern period, numerous notes appeared within the colophons, aiming to protect a manuscript from potential thieves by addressing various curses to them. Some of those curses obtained a verse form, mainly forming quatrains, the most popular genre form, suitable for various kinds of notes. The...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Scrinium
Year: 2020, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 390-397 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBL Near East and North Africa KDF Orthodox Church |
| Further subjects: | B
verse colophons
B East Syriac tradition B Syriac poetry B Hōrmīz, son of ‘Abd al-Aḥad B manuscript production B stealing manuscripts B scribal notes B verse curses |
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| Summary: | In the modern period, numerous notes appeared within the colophons, aiming to protect a manuscript from potential thieves by addressing various curses to them. Some of those curses obtained a verse form, mainly forming quatrains, the most popular genre form, suitable for various kinds of notes. The paper discusses a such pieces - never studied of published so far - that were composed and written by a scribe named Hōrmīz, son of ‘Abd al-Aḥad, who worked in the early 18th century in Kirkuk (Syriac Bēt Slōk), |
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00160A08 |