Recovering Some Lost Lines in the <i>Mēmrē</i> of Narsai (d. <i>c</i>. 500), with an Appendix on a Stemma of Manuscripts of NarsaiComparative Oriental Manuscript Studies BulletinSyriaca.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/Q93J4QZY/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Aaron MichaelButtsRecovering Some Lost Lines in the <i>Mēmrē</i> of Narsai (d. <i>c</i>. 500), with an Appendix on a Stemma of Manuscripts of Narsaihttp://syriaca.org/cbss/Q93J4QZYhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/Q93J4QZYhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/Q93J4QZYComparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin9:1-220237-23In 1905, Alphonse Mingana published a two-volume edition of metrical homilies, or mēmrē, of the important East-Syriac theologian and poet Narsai (d. c.500). This edition remains the field-standard resource for scholars working on Narsai. In the present article, I draw attention to four cases in which a line was missing from the manuscript(s) that served as the basis of Mingana’s edition, resulting in a broken couplet in Mingana’s text. I restore these couplets by consulting ms Diyarbakır 70 (= Da), which was copied near Erbil in 1328, and thereby I recover some lost lines of Narsai. In a concluding appendix, I discuss how these lost lines can serve as errores significativi (Leitfehler) for establishing a stemma of the manuscripts of Narsai’s mēmrē.
Butts, Aaron Michael. “Recovering Some Lost Lines in the Mēmrē of Narsai (d. c. 500), with an Appendix on a Stemma of Manuscripts of Narsai.” Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 9:1-2 (2023): 7–23. https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14088.
Aaron Michael Butts, Recovering Some Lost Lines in the Mēmrē of Narsai (d. c. 500), with an Appendix on a Stemma of Manuscripts of Narsai,” Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 9:1-2 (2023): 7–23, https://doi.org/http://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.14088.