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Miscellaneous Identifications III: A New Early Arabic Six-Books Dormition Fragment

1. This is the third post in a series in which I document identifications associated with the work of early Christian Arabic scribes (you can find the first two posts here and here). This post is about a fragment of the early Arabic translation of the so-called Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (CANT 140), an… Continue reading Miscellaneous Identifications III: A New Early Arabic Six-Books Dormition Fragment

Miscellaneous Identifications II: The Christian Arabic Undertext of the Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest

1. This is the second post in a series in which I document identifications associated with the work of early Christian Arabic scribes (you can find the first post here). Quite inadvertently, the material that I would like to present in this post has even led to three and not just one identification: the identification… Continue reading Miscellaneous Identifications II: The Christian Arabic Undertext of the Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest

New Research #3

Yesterday, the latest issue of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (vol. 26/1) dropped. The journal contains two contributions that are potentially relevant to the study of manuscripts from St Catherine’s Monastery. The first is the latest installment of Sergey Minov’s and Grigory Kessel’s bibliography: “Recent Publications on Syriac Topics: 2022” (pp. 189-283). The bibliography lists… Continue reading New Research #3