Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Aramaic Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,2 (2021) 215-224
Keywords:
Colophons of manuscripts
;
Manuscripts, Syriac
;
Syriac language Terms and phrases
;
Syriac poetry Manuscripts
Abstract:
As shown in recent studies, East Syriac colophons were rather standardised, at least in the Ottoman period, and they incorporated into the main colophon body not only prose passages, but also poetic ones. The current article discusses one such passage that occurs in both prose and poetic forms in various manuscripts, namely the topos of ‘the five twins that pulled a yoke from the forest through the white field’. It provides a fascinating example of the trope’s transmission over the centuries, as well as the poetic creativity of East Syriac scribes as manifested in the Ottoman period.
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