More fun with deciphering Indian place names in #Syriac #colophons, this time with a side of Syriac #grammar
This #manuscript, APSTCH PIRA 00035, was copied by ܡܫܡܫܢܐ ܙܟܪܝܐ (Deacon Zechariah) who was a monk in ܕܝܪܝܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܬܐܘܡܐ ܫܠܝܚܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ ܕܒܐܛܝܟܠ: the monastery of St. Thomas the Apostle ... dbeʾṭíkal.
I transliterated the place name because that's the interesting part. Almost always, when you see the two letters ܕ and ܒ in the context of naming where something is, first instinct is to read them both as proclitics: ܕ as the relative pronoun "which" and ܒ as the preposition "in." So: the monastery "which [is] in"... and here you would expect the name of a village/area.
So, I start googling variations of the spelling "etikal", and end up with very little results. So, instead I do a google maps search for "St. Thomas monastery" or "Dayara Mar Thomas" just to see if anything pops up. One result catches my attention.
#syriac #colophons #grammar #manuscript
To the surprise of no one who works with #manuscripts, #colophons can be such a rich source of all kinds of information. Take this manuscript--APSTCH AYMA 00014 (which I posted a picture from yesterday)--for example. This image is the final page, with the colophon on the right surrounded by a decorative border. There are a few interesting things about this colophon that I will thread here below.
We've got conventions for webpages like:
- /now
- /humans.txt
- /colophon
Is there an established convention for a self-hosted #Linktree-style page of links to other accounts?
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More on the #nowPage:
https://nownownow.com/about
More on #humansTxt:
https://humanstxt.org/
I'm not sure the history of website #colophons, but if there's someone who should be cited, I'm keen to learn! #lazyWeb
#linktree #nowPage #humanstxt #colophons #lazyweb
So I know we've got conventions for pages like:
- /now
- /humans.txt
- /colophon
Is there an established convention for a #Linktree-style page of links to other accounts?
More on the #nowPage: https://nownownow.com/about
More on #humansTxt: https://humanstxt.org/
I'm not sure the history of website #colophons, but if there's someone who should be cited, I'd be interested to learn that history!
#linktree #nowPage #humanstxt #colophons