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East Syriac Scribal Poetry in Paratextual Manuscript Parts: Main Types and Groups
Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography. 2022. Vol. 18. No. 1. P. 315-334.
The present paper discusses various kinds of poetry represented in scribal paratextual parts of East Syriac manuscripts, such as introductions and colophons. In the current article, we have attempted to develop a general typology of this kind of verse pieces and to discuss the details of their transmission in diachronic scope, starting with the Mongol period and focusing on the Ottoman time, when this type of texts obtained a large popularity.
Keywords: сирийская поэзияSyriac poetryвосточносирийское христианствоEast Syriac Christianityписцовая поэзияEast Syriac manuscriptsвосточносирийские рукописиParatextual manuscript parts
Publication based on the results of:
Pritula A., , in : The Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies. Essays in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock. : Leiden : Brill, 2023. Ch. 3. P. 311-324.
In numerous works by Sebastian Brock, a very detailed typology of Syriac dialogue poetry has been worked out that shows also the stages of its evolution. Most of such poems (sōghīthā, pl. sōghyāthā), being strophic and used for liturgical antiphonal singing, were composed in the 4th-7th centuries. Later on, after the Arabic conquest, the Syriac ...
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Толкование в целом складывается из обычного для данного жанра последовательного набора указаний на символический характер того или иного литургического действия, соответственно ходу литургии. Библейские события, богословские утверждения, эсхатологические образы — таково, в основном, содержание этих символических указаний. В заключительной части своего произведения Бар Зō‘бӣ подобным образом вкратце описывает устройство храма, каждая часть которого также имеет ...
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The poems published and studied here represent literary tastes of East Syriac educated circles of the Ottoman period. These text collections appeared as later additions in the manuscripts written by ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā, the Uniate East Syriac Church poet and the second patriarch (1555-1570). Such a type of small texts, usually having very little or ...
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Among Syriac manuscripts of the Institute of the Oriental Manuscripts in Saint Petersburg, there is an East Syriac lectionary Sir. 26. Being an Evangeliary (Evangelion), it is meant for the Gospel lections of the whole liturgical year. The manuscript contains a number of miniatures that were added to it later, as pointed out by Nina V. ...
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The Syriac poetry of the 11th–14th centuries (so-called Syriac Renaissance) was studied
very purely until quite recently. One of the reasons for such indifference is a traditional
approach of the scholars, who treated this poetry as a secondary one, because of a
strong influence of the Islamic literature.
In this article, it is argued that the authors of this ...
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Книга представляет собой издание средневековых христианских восточносирийских (несторианских) гимнов сборника Вардā, многие из которых публикуются впервые. В издании использованы основные списки этого крупнейшего сироязычного собрания литургической поэзии. Публикация текстов предваряется исследованием, рассматривающим текстологические, литературные особенности памятника, его место в восточнохристианской традиции. Издание предназначено как для специалистов, так и для всех интересующихся средневековой литературой. ...
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Pritula A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2019 Vol. 15 P. 297-320
ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā, the second patriarch (1555-1570) of the East Syriac Uniate (Chaldean)
Church, is known as a founder of its literary tradition, and an author of numerous liturgical
and non-liturgical poems. He was also active as a scribe, of whose production several
manuscripts survive that were never studied before. The present paper discusses
them, in particular the historical ...
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The short pieces discussed in the paper were added between larger texts and on
the flyleaves by the scribe himself. Thematically, the poems may be divided in two
blocks: the first one contains poems on reading, studying grammar, and on the scribal
activities, whereas the second one comprises poetry ascribed to Bar ʿEbrōyō on different
topics. The manuscript under ...
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As shown in recent studies, East Syriac colophons were rather standardised, at least
in the Ottoman period, and they incorporated into the main colophon body not only
prose passages, but also poetic ones. The current article discusses one such passage
that occurs in both prose and poetic forms in various manuscripts, namely the topos of
‘the five twins that ...
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Seleznyov N., Брок С., В кн. : Православная энциклопедия. Т.19. Т. 19.: М. : Церковно-научный центр "Православная энциклопедия", 2009. С. 100-104.
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Eastern Syriac mystical writers in describing the way of the solitude leading to the state of Union with God used different Syriac words meaning «face» (appē, qublā the mystical theology¯ la¯ and pars.o¯pa¯).The usage of the idea of «face» in has been predefined by the medical and theological (trinitarian and especially Christological) usage. In theology face was an expression ...
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Коллективная монография посвящена так называемой Сисиниевой легенде — группе сюжетов о сакральном персонаже, противостоящем женскому демону, который причиняет вред роженице и новорожденным детям. Исследование охватывает период от поздней Античности до ХХ века. Легенда зафиксирована в устных и письменных традициях Ближнего Востока, Балкан, Кавказа и Восточной Европы — в арамейской, еврейской, коптской, эфиопской, арабской, сирийской, греко-византийской, ...
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Cherkashina A., Cherkashin D., Saar O., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 49-84
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