Publication Date
copy: 19. August 1826
Publication Place
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage -
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
Subject
religion
Type
Book
Language
Syriac
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
116
Physical Dimensions
18,0 x 12,0 cm
Library
Qalamos
Library Asset ID
Sachau 121
Record ID
DE1Book_manuscript_00010164
Library Location
Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
Date
copy: 19. August 1826
Notes
Library binding, half leather — Clear writing, mixed vocalization. — black, red — Syriac script → West Syriac (Serto) — paper — I. Bl. 1-109v: Chronology of Simon of Šanḳelāwā, see No. 102 (SACHAU 108) and No.
103 (p. 153). The introduction (letter from Joḥannān Bar Zoʿbī and the author's answer) is missing here,
also the questions and answers no. 24-30 and 37. Sections no.
13, 21, 22 here in a very shortened form. In section 33, one sheet (page 90) is blank
left, which was missing in the template - according to the following marginal note: ܗαμμαμαμαμμαμαμαμαμαμαμαματερερερερες:
ܐαμμμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμαμα. Correct order of the sheets: 1, 2, 4-9, 3, 10 etc. II. Sheet 109v-116r: A piece of the chronological work of George, Bishop of the Arabs,
written in twelve syllable verses. Titel: ܡܐܡܪܐ ܒܢܝܫܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܝܥܩܘܒ ܡܛܠ ܟܪܘܢܢܩܘܢ ܕܥܒܝܕ ܠܓܐܘܪܓܝ ܕܥܡ̈ܡܐ ܥܠ There is a gap between sheets 110 and 111. The work is not a scientific chronology, but a collection of practical ones
Rules for solving questions relating to the Christian church year. In this one
The following questions are addressed in the fragment: the Fundamentum lunationis guard
111r; how to calculate a specific day in the lunar month p. 111v; how to do that
individual moon phases calculated on sheet 112v; which year is a leap year p. 113r;
Beginning of Lent p. 113v; how to tell from the beginning of one year's fasting and the following
year calculated page 114r; Easter calculation there; second method for the same
Invoice page 115r. The ending is missing. The copyist's signature follows without indication of a gap. From the division into 24 chapters, the Assemani I, 495 according to the Roman Hds. mentioned,
Nothing can be seen in this fragment. About George, Bishop of the Arabs (d.
in the first half of the 8th century) cf. HOFFMANN, De hermeneuticis apud Syros Aristotleis
pp. 148-151; V. RYSSEL, A letter from George, Bishop of the Arabs, Gotha 1882 pp. 7, 20.
Sınıf numarası
Sachau 121
Koleksiyon
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Editör
Datenübernahme SBB/te
Lisans
CC0 1.0
Çoğaltma
Scan, Digitalisat Christlich-Orientalische Handschriften
Düzenleme durumu
First input complete
Katalog
Sachau 236