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Peter of Matush - ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ

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Peter of Matush (known in print as Petrus Metoscita) was a cleric and scholar of Arabic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries C.E. Born to a Maronite family in Cyprus, he studied at the Maronite College in Rome where he later taught and became a Jesuit. He is the author of an Arabic grammar Institutiones linguae arabicae [http://syriaca.org/cbss/MGNRR2V4] .1, 2, 3

Names

  • ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ
  • Peter of Matush
  • Peter al-Matushi
  • Buṭrus al-Maṭūši1
  • Buṭrus al-Maṭūši1
  • Peṭros of Maṭush
  • Petrus Metoscita2
  • Pietro Metoscita3

Birth

1569 Cyprus

Death

1625 Rome

Sex

male1

Notes

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  • 1 Rudolf Macuch, Geschichte der spät- und neusyrischen Literatur, 1. Aufl (Berlin New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1965)., p: 51.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Petrus Metoscita, Institutiones linguae arabicae, ex diversis Arabum monumentis collectae, & ad quam maximam fieri potuit brevitatem, atque ordinem revocatae. Quibus addita est exercitatio grammatica in Psalmum XXXIV. (Romae: Apud Stephanum Paulinum, 1624).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Robert Jones, Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) (Bril, 2020), p: 196.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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David A. Michelson et al., “Peter of Matush — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1072.

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Entry Title: Peter of Matush — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ

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  • Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
  • German data entry by Samer Khader
  • Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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