Obsequies of My Lady Mary (I): Unpublished Early Syriac Palimpsest Fragments from the British Library (BL, Add 17.137, no. 2)

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.ChristaMüller-KesslerObsequies of My Lady Mary (I): Unpublished Early Syriac Palimpsest Fragments from the British Library (BL, Add 17.137, no. 2)http://syriaca.org/cbss/Q9XACNQThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/Q9XACNQThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/Q9XACNQTHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies23:1202031-59The Syriac palimpsest folios listed under Add 17.137, no. 2 in Wright’s Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum have been described as deriving from the Obsequies of My Lady Mary. This attribution has never been questioned afterwards. Although a specimen consisting of only one column of a single folio was published a few years ago, the remaining text on the folio and the other five have been left unedited. It was recently understood that under this sub shelfmark number two divergent manuscripts are hidden. One manuscript surviving only in two folios contains the Obsequies and is written in an elegant Estrangela script (ca. 5th cent.), while the other, in a much bolder script type, shows Jacob of Serugh’s Homily on the Presentation in the Temple (ca. 6th cent.), one of the few palimpsest and earliest text examples of this author. Only the folios with the Obsequies are edited here, which offer noteworthy textual additions and a selection of diverse variants that are not accounted for by the Christian Palestinian Aramaic and much later Ethiopic transmissions. Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Obsequies of My Lady Mary (I): Unpublished Early Syriac Palimpsest Fragments from the British Library (BL, Add 17.137, No. 2).” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 23:1 (2020): 31–59. Christa Müller-Kessler, Obsequies of My Lady Mary (I): Unpublished Early Syriac Palimpsest Fragments from the British Library (BL, Add 17.137, No. 2),” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 23:1 (2020): 31–59.IV-VII CEMaryNT apocryphaTransitus Mariaeprimary sources [Syriac] + English translation