Images of Women in an Arabic Apocryphal Gospel of the Year 1299

Images of Women in an Arabic Apocryphal Gospel of the Year 1299Egitto e Vicino OrienteSyriaca.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/YXM45RIB/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MassimoBernabòImages of Women in an Arabic Apocryphal Gospel of the Year 1299http://syriaca.org/cbss/YXM45RIBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/YXM45RIBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/YXM45RIBEgitto e Vicino Oriente40201797-108The cod. Orientali 387 is a pocket-size manuscript which contains the Infancy Gospel of Our Lord in Arabic. A colophon informs us that it was produced in Mardin, in the year 1299. The codex contains over fifty unfinished drawings which illustrate the miracles the swaddling bands and bathing water of Jesus perform when they come in touch with diseased or possessed people. The Arabic text is a translation of an original, late-antique Syriac narrative; the drawings of the codex seem to hark back to an earlier model with the Syriac version of the story. The main characters of the narrative are Mary and other women the holy family occasionally meets and rescues from a variety of diseases. We are facing with a rare visual document of domestic life, especially concerning women's behaviour, in the Christian East: in fact, most of the drawings illustrate episodes of women with leprosy, care of children, demons who torment women sexually, jealousy of her husband's other wife, and sorcery. Bernabò, Massimo. “Images of Women in an Arabic Apocryphal Gospel of the Year 1299.” Egitto e Vicino Oriente 40 (2017): 97–108. Massimo Bernabò, Images of Women in an Arabic Apocryphal Gospel of the Year 1299, Egitto e Vicino Oriente 40 (2017): 97–108.Arab ChristiansInfancy Gospel of ThomasJacobitesNT apocryphaVII-XVIII CEXIII CEarticonographyillustrationswomen