1. This is the fourth post in a series in which I document identifications associated with the work of early Christian Arabic scribes. You can find the first three posts here (I), here (II), and here (III). This post is about a further membrum disjectum of a Christian Arabic parchment manuscript produced in the Sinai Monastery… Continue reading Miscellaneous Identifications IV: A Missing Quire of the Arabic Apocrypha Codex among the New Finds
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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
Greek Fragments in Göttingen and Bryn Mawr and Their Previous Owners
1. Last year, Georgi Parpulov published a short piece entitled “Membra disiecta sinaitica Graeca” in Fragmentology 5 (2022).1. Although the article is only 7 pages long, in it Parpulov accomplishes a lot: he identifies 18 dispersed fragments of Greek manuscripts from Sinai – not counting the joins identified among Sinai’s New Finds. These 18 manuscripts… Continue reading Greek Fragments in Göttingen and Bryn Mawr and Their Previous Owners
A Greek-Arabic Liturgical Manuscript in Princeton’s Scheide Library
1. The largest batch of Sinaitic diaspora manuscripts ever to circulate on the European antiquities market was probably the one offered by the Leipzig-based antiquarian, book dealer, and publisher Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1924). His Katalog 500, with the thematic title Orientalische Manuskripte, offered 54 manuscripts in 8 languages. The majority of these is probably of… Continue reading A Greek-Arabic Liturgical Manuscript in Princeton’s Scheide Library