What Kind of Poetry Would a Syriac Manuscript-Thief Read about Oneself?ScriniumSyriaca.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/QUYWN5IB/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AntonPritulaWhat Kind of Poetry Would a Syriac Manuscript-Thief Read about Oneself?http://syriaca.org/cbss/QUYWN5IBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/QUYWN5IBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/QUYWN5IBScrinium162020390-397In the modern period, numerous notes appeared within the colophons, aiming to protect a manuscript from potential thieves by addressing various curses to them. Some of those curses obtained a verse form, mainly forming quatrains, the most popular genre form, suitable for various kinds of notes. The paper discusses a such pieces – never studied of published so far – that were composed and written by a scribe named Hōrmīz, son of ‘Abd al-Aḥad, who worked in the early 18th century in Kirkuk (Syriac <i>Bēt Slōk</i>).
Pritula, Anton. “What Kind of Poetry Would a Syriac Manuscript-Thief Read about Oneself?” Scrinium 16 (2020): 390–97.
Anton Pritula, What Kind of Poetry Would a Syriac Manuscript-Thief Read about Oneself?,Scrinium 16 (2020): 390–97.NestoriansVII-XVIII CEXVIII CEbookscursespoetryscribes