Arabic hagiographic palimpsest with Greek Old Testament undertext

Name: Arabic hagiographic palimpsest with Greek Old Testament undertext
Author: Christopher Wright

İsim	Arabic hagiographic palimpsest with Greek Old Testament undertext
Yazar	Christopher Wright
Tür	Belge
Dil	ara,ell
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Sayfa Sayısı	2
Fiziksel Boyutlar	Fragment (scrap) 1 Fragment height: 85 mm, width: 30 mm. Leaf height: 300 mm, width: 230 mm.
Kütüphane:	Cambridge Dijital Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası	MS-ADD-01879-00005
Lokasyon	Cambridge University Library — Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1879.5
Notlar	This fragment consists of a small scrap of parchment from an Arabic hagiographic palimpsest with Greek Old Testament undertext. The upper and lower texts are written in the same orientation, rather than at right-angles as is usually the case in palimpsests.While the fragment is too small for much information to be discerned from it, the manuscript from which it came has been identified. Other, much more substantial portions of it are now Sinai, Monastery of St Catherine, MS NF ar. perg. 66, Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS gr. 2 (Rescriptus Tischendorf/Codex Scythopolitanus) and St Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacional'naja biblioteka, MS gr. 26, comprising 6, 22 and 6 folios respectively. From these it can be established that the original Greek text, found also in the Leipzig and St Petersburg fragments, is that of the Old Testament, and can be dated stylistically to the 7th or 8th century. The leaves of the Sinai fragment were reused in palimpsest from a different original manuscript, written in Christian Palestinian Aramaic.The overtext comprises a series of Lives of Saints translated from Greek into Arabic, and was copied by one Ḏāwīḏ al-Ḥimṣī (David of Homs) for Yannah of Raqqa, a monk of the great Monastery of St Sabas (Mar Saba) in the Jordan valley. It can be dated quite closely, since the translation of one of these texts, the Life of St Stephen the Sabaite by Leontios of Damascus, was composed at St Sabas and completed only in 903, while by 924/5 Yannah had been appointed abbot of the monastery. (M. van Esbroeck, 'Le codex rescriptus Tischendorf 2 à Leipzig et Cyrille de Scythopolis en version arabe', Actes du deuxiėme Congrės international d'études arabes chrétiennes (Oosterhesselen, septembre 1984), ed. S. K. Samir (Rome 1986), pp. 81-91; André Binggeli, 'Les trois David: copistes arabes de Palestine aux 9e-10e s.', Manuscripta Graeca et Orientalia: mélanges monastiques et patristiques en l'honneur de Paul Géhin, ed. André Binggeli, Anne Boud'hors and Matthieu Cassin (Leuven 2016), pp. 79-117 at pp. 100-106)). The style of the Greek text suggests that the original manuscript had also been produced in Palestine (Tchernetska, 'Add. 1879.5', p. 205).The Leipzig, St Petersburg and Cambridge fragments were all acquired in the mid-19th century by Constantin von Tischendorf, on two different trips to the Middle East. However, while he visited St Sabas on both occasions and acquired manuscripts there, including palimpsests, the presence of another fragment of the manuscript in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai, which he also visited during these journeys, indicates that this palimpsest had entered the library of that institution by the time he encountered it. Tischendorf evidently had the various parts of the manuscript in his possession, including this fragment, treated with a chemical reagent to make the Greek text more visible, which have left the ink blurred and discoloured.Dr Christopher Wright
Edinme	Bought by the University Library from Tischendorf's executors 23 February 1876.
Eklentiler	The fragment is marked with the current classmark and the former classmark T.18.4.
Alternatif Tanımlayıcı(lar)	Diktyon 77955
Bibliyografya	Easterling, Patricia E., "Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge", Scriptorium 16 2 302-323 (1962).Tchernetska, Natalie, "Hand-list of the Greek palimpsests in Cambridge libraries", in Prato Giancarlo (ed.), I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito: Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca (Cremona 4-10 ottobre 1998), Papyrologica Florentina 31 (Florence: Edizioni Gonnelli, 2000) 733-739.Tchernetska, Natalie, "The Tischendorf Greek palimpsests", Appunti Romani di Filologia 2 107-126 (2000).Tchernetska, Natalie, "Cambridge University Library Add. 1879.5 and its provenance", in Felix Budelmann and Pantelis Michelakis (eds), Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in honour of P.E. Easterling (London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2001).
Durum	The scrap contains small holes and is stained. The ink of the Greek text has been blurred and tinged blue-green by a reagent.
Format	Codex
Önceki Sahibi	Tischendorf, Constantin von, 1815-1874
Fonlama	The Polonsky Foundation
Materyal	Parchment
Köken (Provenance)	Owned by the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. Acquired there by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874), either in 1843 or 1858.
Edinme Türü	acquisition
Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme)	Zooming image © University Library, All rights reserved.
Görüntü Hakları (İndirme)	Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Dil Kodu 1	grc
Dil Kodu 2	ar
Dil 1	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Dil 2	Arabic
Metadata Hakları	This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.
Küçük Resim Yönü	portrait
Filigran Beyanı	Cambridge University Library (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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Arabic hagiographic palimpsest with Greek Old Testament undertext

Yazar Christopher Wright

Tür Belge

Dil ara,ell

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Sayfa Sayısı 2

Fiziksel Boyutlar Fragment (scrap) 1 Fragment height: 85 mm, width: 30 mm. Leaf height: 300 mm, width: 230 mm.

Kütüphane Cambridge Dijital Kütüphanesi

Kayıt Numarası MS-ADD-01879-00005

Lokasyon Cambridge University Library — Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1879.5

Notlar This fragment consists of a small scrap of parchment from an Arabic hagiographic palimpsest with Greek Old Testament undertext. The upper and lower texts are written in the same orientation, rather than at right-angles as is usually the case in palimpsests.While the fragment is too small for much information to be discerned from it, the manuscript from which it came has been identified. Other, much more substantial portions of it are now Sinai, Monastery of St Catherine, MS NF ar. perg. 66, Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS gr. 2 (Rescriptus Tischendorf/Codex Scythopolitanus) and St Petersburg, Rossijskaja Nacional'naja biblioteka, MS gr. 26, comprising 6, 22 and 6 folios respectively. From these it can be established that the original Greek text, found also in the Leipzig and St Petersburg fragments, is that of the Old Testament, and can be dated stylistically to the 7th or 8th century. The leaves of the Sinai fragment were reused in palimpsest from a different original manuscript, written in Christian Palestinian Aramaic.The overtext comprises a series of Lives of Saints translated from Greek into Arabic, and was copied by one Ḏāwīḏ al-Ḥimṣī (David of Homs) for Yannah of Raqqa, a monk of the great Monastery of St Sabas (Mar Saba) in the Jordan valley. It can be dated quite closely, since the translation of one of these texts, the Life of St Stephen the Sabaite by Leontios of Damascus, was composed at St Sabas and completed only in 903, while by 924/5 Yannah had been appointed abbot of the monastery. (M. van Esbroeck, 'Le codex rescriptus Tischendorf 2 à Leipzig et Cyrille de Scythopolis en version arabe', Actes du deuxiėme Congrės international d'études arabes chrétiennes (Oosterhesselen, septembre 1984), ed. S. K. Samir (Rome 1986), pp. 81-91; André Binggeli, 'Les trois David: copistes arabes de Palestine aux 9e-10e s.', Manuscripta Graeca et Orientalia: mélanges monastiques et patristiques en l'honneur de Paul Géhin, ed. André Binggeli, Anne Boud'hors and Matthieu Cassin (Leuven 2016), pp. 79-117 at pp. 100-106)). The style of the Greek text suggests that the original manuscript had also been produced in Palestine (Tchernetska, 'Add. 1879.5', p. 205).The Leipzig, St Petersburg and Cambridge fragments were all acquired in the mid-19th century by Constantin von Tischendorf, on two different trips to the Middle East. However, while he visited St Sabas on both occasions and acquired manuscripts there, including palimpsests, the presence of another fragment of the manuscript in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai, which he also visited during these journeys, indicates that this palimpsest had entered the library of that institution by the time he encountered it. Tischendorf evidently had the various parts of the manuscript in his possession, including this fragment, treated with a chemical reagent to make the Greek text more visible, which have left the ink blurred and discoloured.Dr Christopher Wright

Edinme Bought by the University Library from Tischendorf's executors 23 February 1876.

Eklentiler The fragment is marked with the current classmark and the former classmark T.18.4.

Alternatif Tanımlayıcı(lar) Diktyon 77955

Bibliyografya Easterling, Patricia E., "Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge", Scriptorium 16 2 302-323 (1962).Tchernetska, Natalie, "Hand-list of the Greek palimpsests in Cambridge libraries", in Prato Giancarlo (ed.), I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito: Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca (Cremona 4-10 ottobre 1998), Papyrologica Florentina 31 (Florence: Edizioni Gonnelli, 2000) 733-739.Tchernetska, Natalie, "The Tischendorf Greek palimpsests", Appunti Romani di Filologia 2 107-126 (2000).Tchernetska, Natalie, "Cambridge University Library Add. 1879.5 and its provenance", in Felix Budelmann and Pantelis Michelakis (eds), Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in honour of P.E. Easterling (London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2001).

Durum The scrap contains small holes and is stained. The ink of the Greek text has been blurred and tinged blue-green by a reagent.

Format Codex

Önceki Sahibi Tischendorf, Constantin von, 1815-1874

Fonlama The Polonsky Foundation

Materyal Parchment

Köken (Provenance) Owned by the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. Acquired there by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874), either in 1843 or 1858.

Edinme Türü acquisition

Görüntü Hakları (İndirme) Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Dil Kodu 1 grc

Dil Kodu 2 ar

Dil 1 Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Dil 2 Arabic

Metadata Hakları This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.

Küçük Resim Yönü portrait

Filigran Beyanı Cambridge University Library (CC BY-NC 4.0)