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A Syriac service-book from Turfan : Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin MIK III 45
- Title
- A Syriac service-book from Turfan : Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin MIK III 45 / Erica C.D. Hunter & J.F. Coakley ; herausgegeben im Auftrag der Kommission des Zentrums Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- Publication
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- x, 307 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
- Summary
- "An edition and study of an 8th-9th century Syriac manuscript from Bulayïq near Turfan, the earliest extant witness of the Penqita or ḥudra. In 1905, a substantial Syriac manuscript of 60 leaves, containing a Christian service-book, was discovered by the second German Turfan Expedition at the monastery site of Bulayïq. Since then, although the existence of this manuscript (which has received the signature of MIK III 45) has been mentioned from time to time in the scholarly literature, its text has never been published. The present volume offers for the first time an edition of the Syriac text, English translation and critical introduction to MIK III 45. The Syriac text is of the Penqita, the book later known as the ḥudra, containing the variable parts of the daily offices and Eucharist, to which have been appended some occasional services of the Church of the East, including the burial service. The 60 folios are the surviving part (about one quarter) of a manuscript datable to the eighth or ninth century and, on account of this dating, can be considered to be the earliest extant witness to the Penqita which was the project of the seventh-century patriarch Isho'yab III who drew up the outline for the ecclesiastical year that is still followed today in the Church of the East. The editors argue that MIK III 45 was probably written in Merv - it would be the only Syriac manuscript known from that Christian centre - for transport to the Christian church in distant Turfan."--
- Series Statement
- Berliner Turfantexte ; XXXIX
- Uniform Title
- Berliner Turfantexte ; 39.
- Alternative Title
- Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin MIK III 45
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-65) and index.
- Language (note)
- Comprises a transcription of the Syriac text of the manuscript Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst (formerly the Museum für Indische Kunst), MIK III 45, with an English translation following. Introduction and notes in English.
- Call Number
- JFG 18-180
- ISBN
- 9782503574714
- 2503574718
- OCLC
- 968775362
- Title
- A Syriac service-book from Turfan : Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin MIK III 45 / Erica C.D. Hunter & J.F. Coakley ; herausgegeben im Auftrag der Kommission des Zentrums Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- Publisher
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Berliner Turfantexte ; XXXIXBerliner Turfantexte ; 39.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-65) and index.
- Language
- Comprises a transcription of the Syriac text of the manuscript Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst (formerly the Museum für Indische Kunst), MIK III 45, with an English translation following. Introduction and notes in English.
- Added Author
- Hunter, Erica C. D., editor.Coakley, J. F., editor.Turfansammlung.Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Museum für Asiatische Kunst, current owner.Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zentrum Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt, issuing body.
- Research Call Number
- JFG 18-180