There's no #Syriac grammar textbook on the market that can prepare you to read the Syro-Malabar scripts, which makes it somewhat ironic that this particular #manuscript is a Syriac grammar (ܟܬܒܐ ܕܓܪܡܛܝܩܝ ܕܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ).

An endearing #snail holding place in the border of the #LambethPalaceLibrary #manuscript
MS 3561

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A charming #owl holding place in the upper corner of a #LambethPalaceLibrary #manuscript

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A cool #syriac #manuscript find from yesterday: an exchange of letters between the Church of the East Catholicos Sabrisho V (ibn al-Masihi or bar Masihi) and his Syriac Orthodox Patriarch contemporary, Ignatius III David. This is from APSTCH VADA 00017: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/539570

Among some of the Swedish National Archives recently digitised documents is this Life of St Elizabeth of Hungary.

It begins with "Dyt is dat leuent det hilghen vrouwen sunte elseben van erer eddelen gebord..."

Sounds very Dutch to me!?

Link to the full #manuscript https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/R0003535_00001

#Archives #Medieval #Hagiography

This week on The Boomerang. Enjoy!

"In The Manuscripts Club, Christopher de Hamel introduces us to a group of people who dedicated their lives to collecting medieval manuscripts. In other words, nerds."

@histodons @histodon @bookstodon #histodons #histodon #history #medieval #manuscript #middleages #nerd #nerds

https://ehkern.com/2023/08/25/a-synchronous-celebration-of-the-medieval-manuscript-nerd/

A picture is worth a thousand words.

a tha Am Faclair Beag ag eadar-theangachadh gu "Is luach mìle facal dealbh."

#illustration #marginalia #drawing #manuscript #phoenix #dragon #ainneamhag #dràgon #Gàidhlig

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.

Today's (somewhat remarkable) #Syriac #manuscript discovery begins in a somewhat unassuming way: an early 20th century manuscript bound (as you can see) in the flyleaves / advertisements of an English publisher.

Good Wood: Using Beech to Rebind a #Medieval #Manuscript, Part 3 | Guardians of Memory

https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2023/07/good-wood-3/?loclr=eapres

detailed explanation of meticulous #conservation work at Library of Congress. Parts 1 and 2 were posted earlier. Part 4 will follow

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The #manuscript APSTCH PIRA 00014 provides an example of a very interesting trend in text preservation in India. The text in question, the Gospel commentary of Ishoʿdad of Merv, would have been banned by the Catholic Synod of Diamper in 1599 (because he was an East Syriac author). As such, he also would not have been accepted among West Syriac / Malankara Christians either.

Yet, his text is preserved here almost certainly because some enterprising scribe removed the title and author information and just copied the text. As you can see in the image, the text has a gap at the top of the page on the right, signifying where there should be a title rubric. But there's nothing there. I've seen this in a number of manuscripts, so it's definitely a conscious effort on the part of the scribes.

One more fun #manuscript image for today, just because it's cool: a sermon on the apostle Thomas written in #Malayalam #Garshuni, also called Suriyani Malayalam (a version of the Syriac alphabet adapted for writing Malayalam). From the ms APSTCH PIRA 00011. (Note: I do not read Malayalam! Luckily the title is in Syriac.)

Today's interesting #Syriac #manuscript find: a question and answer dialogue style text between a Melkite and a Syriac Orthodox. It seems primarily to be a christological work, focusing on the crucifixion. It even has an interesting little christological diagram (third image). The manuscript is APSTCH PIRA 00011: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/539456

Petite pensée pour tous les agrégatifs - toutes disciplines confondues, mais je pense surtout à celles et ceux qui préparent l'agrégation d'anglais, pour qui je travaille activement ces jours-ci.
Nous tâchons de vous préparer des outils intéressants et efficaces (et bientôt disponibles !) pour étudier comme il se doit Sir Gawain and the Green Knight et le film de David Lowery.
Bon courage, et enjoy!
#agregation #agregationanglais #TheGreenKnight #Gawain #medieval #manuscript

@fasnix @alexschnapper Ne, FromThePage ist selbst #FLOSS: http://www.fromthepage.org

#transcript #manuscript #scholars #historic #humanities

Came across this in a folder on my computer and was chuckling about it again... this was doodling someone did in a big manuscript of pre-WWI #klezmer music collected by Zusman Kiselhof on the An-Sky expedition ... in my mind it was some kind of bored assistant in his office but who knows!
I came across it in 2021 while digitizing the music manuscripts for this project:
https://klezmerinstitute.org/kmdmp/
#doodles #PlusCaChange #manuscript

Some rather racy depictions of the Lotus Tree from 1602 and 1614.

Those who eat from the Lotus Tree forget their homes and their lives. They sit and eat and sleep.

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_from_page_573_of_%22Omnia_Andreae_Alciati_V.C._Emblemata_-_cum_commentariis,_quibus_emblematum_detecta_origine,_dubia_omnia,_et_obscura_illustrantur%22_(1602)_(14748468435).jpg and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_from_page_447_of_%22Andreae_Alciati_i.v.c._emblemata%22_(1614)_(14565613179).jpg

#Odyssey #TheOdyssey #Lotus #LotusTree #LotusEaters #Lotophagi #illustration #manuscript #TreesOfMastodon

Schon im Mittelalter gab es Selfies, was uns dieser Beitrag über zwei Selbstportraits des nicht ganz so bescheidenen Mönches und Buchmalers Rufillus lehrt.
#manuskript #handschrift #manuscript #buchkunst #buchmalerei #bookart #selfie #selbstportrait #rufillus #mittelalter #medievalmanuscript
https://medievalbooks.nl/2018/09/20/me-myself-and-i/

#Library restores #Palestinian #history one #manuscript at a time
https://www.rawstory.com/library-restores-palestinian-history-one-manuscript-at-a-time/

One of the best things about running a small lab is submitting a #manuscript, even in the summer, when no one will be around to review it 🤓