Format:
1 Online-Ressource (334 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781463242152
Series Statement:
Gorgias Handbooks 50
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concordance: Wright, Catalogue numbers and library shelf marks -- 3. Inventory of publications of texts based on Syriac manuscripts in the British Library -- 4. Joins with Manuscripts in Other Libraries -- 5. Palimpsests -- 6. Bibliography -- Index
Content:
The British Library possesses one of the most important collections of Syriac manuscripts in the world, with large numbers dating back to the second half of the first millennium CE. The publication of important Syriac texts from these manuscripts has been going on for some 180 years and still continues. The aim of the present volume is to provide a guide to these scattered publications: following the sequence of the shelf-marks (call numbers), for each manuscript indication is given of what texts have been published from it. For convenience, a concordance between Wright's Catalogue numbers and shelf-marks is provided, along with a list of palimpsests and of joins with manuscripts in other libraries, in particular with those still in the Library of Dayr al-Surian in Egypt, the monastery which was the source of over 500 manuscripts and fragments purchased by the British Museum in the mid nineteenth century
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781463242145
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brock, Sebastian P., 1938 - An inventory of Syriac texts published from manuscripts in the British Library Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2020 ISBN 9781463242145
Language:
English
Keywords:
British Library
;
Syrisch
;
Handschrift
;
Verzeichnis
DOI:
10.31826/9781463242152
Author information:
Brock, Sebastian P. 1938-
