Reconstructing ‘Abdīshō‘ of Gāzartā’s Personal Library: The Popularity of the Syriac Renaissance Literature in the Ottoman Time

Reconstructing ‘Abdīshō‘ of Gāzartā’s Personal Library: The Popularity of the Syriac Renaissance Literature in the Ottoman TimeOrientalia Christiana Analecta 316Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/5X64R83F/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AntonPritulaReconstructing ‘Abdīshō‘ of Gāzartā’s Personal Library: The Popularity of the Syriac Renaissance Literature in the Ottoman Timehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/5X64R83Fhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/5X64R83Fhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/5X64R83FSalamRassiŽeljkoPašaChristianity, Islam, and the Syriac Renaissance: The Impact of ‘Abdīshō‘ Bar Brīkha. Papers Collected on His 700th Anniversary (1318–2018)RomaPontificio Istituto Orientale2024271-283Orientalia Christiana Analecta 316This article discusses a short note written on the flyleaf of the manuscript SMMJ 116 by the hand of its scribe ‘Abdīshō‘ of Gāzartā (d. 1570), the famous poet and second patriarch of the Chaldean Church. This short text contains a list of books owned by this literary figure. The list gives us a rough idea of the books circulating among the educated Syriac church elite in the early Ottoman period. Pritula, Anton. “Reconstructing ‘Abdīshō‘ of Gāzartā’s Personal Library: The Popularity of the Syriac Renaissance Literature in the Ottoman Time.” In Christianity, Islam, and the Syriac Renaissance: The Impact of ‘Abdīshō‘ Bar Brīkha. Papers Collected on His 700th Anniversary (1318–2018), edited by Salam Rassi and Željko Paša, 271–83. Orientalia Christiana Analecta 316. Roma: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2024. Anton Pritula, Reconstructing ‘Abdīshō‘ of Gāzartā’s Personal Library: The Popularity of the Syriac Renaissance Literature in the Ottoman Time, in Christianity, Islam, and the Syriac Renaissance: The Impact of ‘Abdīshō‘ Bar Brīkha. Papers Collected on His 700th Anniversary (1318–2018), ed. Salam Rassi and Željko Paša, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 316 (Roma: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2024), 271–83.