Sauma, Rabban - ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ
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Names
Floruit
13th cent.1
Descriptions
In hagiography: Sauma, Rabban is commemorated as the monastic teacher and travelling companion of the monk Markos who became the catholicos Yahbalaha III. Acting on behalf of the catholicos, Rabban Sauma travelled to Constantinople, Rome and even Paris
Attestation
Sauma, Rabban is commemorated in Yahballaha and Sauma (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/895] .
3Notes
“Ṣawma was a monk of the Ch. of E. who, sometime around 1275, set out from Dadu
(also known as Khān Bālīq, i.e. modern Beijing) in his native China with a younger disciple, Markos, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 J. P. Amar, "Ṣawma, Rabban." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 360-361.
- 2 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Rabban Sauma.
- 3 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 689.
- 4 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 325.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Sauma, Rabban — ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/721.About this Entry
Entry Title: Sauma, Rabban — ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ
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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, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
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- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
- Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
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- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne
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