Sauma, Rabban — <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ</foreign> Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent David A. Michelson Nathan P. Gibson James E. Walters Thomas A. Carlson Kristian Heal 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 Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo 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 GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/721/tei

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Significant updates to syriacaAll and syriacaPersons schemas have required updates to data and fixing of errors in the data. The most significant updates were to the relation, status, and seriesStmt elements and to the @ana att on person and personGrp. Major updates to data model in conjunction with schema work requiring some updates to data as well. CHANGED: Implemented July 2020 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/878. Add relations and attestations for saints-overlap. Update persName texts nodes from new headwords. Merged in Baumstark data Split names in authors into forename and surname. Move headword attribute from Gedesh to first English name. Merged in data from [duplicate record with same URI]. CREATED: person [duplicate record with same URI] ADDED: Renumbered bibl xml:id attributes and source references to be sequential. ADDED: Abstracts, citation, additional names and confessions from GEDSH. ADDED: syriaca-computed-end for elements with date attributes CREATED: person Ṣawma, Rabban Sauma, Rabban ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ Rabban Sauma ܨܘܡܐ ṣawmā Sauma Ṣaumā Sauma Ṣawma, Rabban http://syriaca.org/person/721 http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_721 http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n91-127261 http://viaf.org/viaf/98182009 http://viaf.org/viaf/41027273 http://viaf.org/viaf/218255125 http://viaf.org/viaf/45104887 http://viaf.org/viaf/226583917 http://viaf.org/viaf/89688160 http://viaf.org/viaf/223650625 http://viaf.org/viaf/196810544 http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=R&sK=Rabban Sauma&sT=keywords 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. 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. 13th cent. Ancient Church of the East Author Saint J. P. Amar Ṣawma, Rabban The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 360-361 A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Rabban Sauma Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca 689 Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte 325