Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar and Ms. BML Or. 298: Codicological and Linguistic Remarks

Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar and Ms. BML Or. 298: Codicological and Linguistic RemarksStudi Classici e OrientaliSyriaca.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/743HHA8E/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MargheritaFarinaBarhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar and Ms. BML Or. 298: Codicological and Linguistic Remarkshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/743HHA8Ehttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/743HHA8Ehttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/743HHA8EStudi Classici e Orientali622016345-360This contribution deals with different issues connected with Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar, its manuscript tradition and its linguistic content. The first two sections of the paper aim at giving a general overview of the text and of its manuscript witnesses. They contain some codicological and text-critical observations, offering an overview of the main features of ms. Or. 298 of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence, which preserves the oldest dated copy of Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar. The last section analyses from the linguistic point of view two particular paragraphs of the Grammar, in which Barhebraeus gives his own interpretation of a phenomenon that some modern linguists call coreferential dative. The aim of this section is to show how the study of native Syriac grammars can contribute not only to the understanding of ancient linguistic thinking, but also of features of the Syriac language usually overlooked. Farina, Margherita. “Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar and Ms. BML Or. 298: Codicological and Linguistic Remarks.” Studi Classici e Orientali 62 (2016): 345–60. Margherita Farina, Barhebraeus’ Metrical Grammar and Ms. BML Or. 298: Codicological and Linguistic Remarks,” Studi Classici e Orientali 62 (2016): 345–60.BarhebraeusClassical SyriacJacobitesSyriac languageVII-XVIII CEXIII CEcodicologygrammar [native]poetry