The Writing Characteristics of the Manuscript Ayasofya 3631: The Epistle (Risālah) of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq to ‘Alī al-Munajjim, Some Notes on PaleographyStudia Orientalia Christiana, CollectaneaSyriaca.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/Q8P5KPV5/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.RosannaBudelliThe Writing Characteristics of the Manuscript Ayasofya 3631: The Epistle (Risālah) of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq to ‘Alī al-Munajjim, Some Notes on Paleographyhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/Q8P5KPV5https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/Q8P5KPV5https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/Q8P5KPV5Studia Orientalia Christiana, Collectanea52-532019-2020281-309The article aims to analyse the writing of the Arabic manuscript Ayasofya 3631 (XIII century) by comparing it with that of others more or less coeval in order to highlight the common characteristics and identify, if not a real school, a current or a handwriting tendency typical of that period. The identification of the peculiarities that distinguish the manuscripts of the same period is important, from the palaeographic point of view, to establish a dating and to study the evolution of Arabic writing as a whole. In some cases, it is necessary to focus attention on minute details, such as for the signs of the ihmāl, whose variety of solutions undergoes changes, albeit minimal, depending on the copyists and historical periods. Moreover, the ihmāl phenomenon highlights, on the one hand, the difficulty of immediately deciphering incomplete writing, on the other, the tendency of Arab scholars and scientists to limit the area of knowledge to a small élite. To read these manuscripts, the recipient had to already have a thorough knowledge of the subject and the type of vocabulary, in addition to the language, but also the copyist is required to know what is necessary for his client in order not to incur gross errors. It is not excluded that, in several cases, especially in the medical or scientific field, the two figures coincide or that the copyists are medical students who transcribe their texts for study reasons.
Budelli, Rosanna. “The Writing Characteristics of the Manuscript Ayasofya 3631: The Epistle (Risālah) of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq to ‘Alī al-Munajjim, Some Notes on Paleography.” Studia Orientalia Christiana, Collectanea 52–53 (2020 2019): 281–309.
Rosanna Budelli, The Writing Characteristics of the Manuscript Ayasofya 3631: The Epistle (Risālah) of Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq to ‘Alī al-Munajjim, Some Notes on Paleography,Studia Orientalia Christiana, Collectanea 52–53 (2020 2019): 281–309.Arab ChristiansHunayn ibn IshaqNestoriansVII-XVIII CEXIII CEletterspaleography