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From liturgy to pharmacology : Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection

Title
From liturgy to pharmacology : Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection / by Nicholas Sims-Williams ; with contributions by J.F. Coakley, Dieter Maue and Adrian Pirtea.
Author
Sims-Williams, Nicholas
Publication
  • Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Coakley, J. F.
  • Maue, Dieter
  • Pirtea, Adrian
  • Turfansammlung.
Description
221 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 30 cm.
Summary
Containing a variety of texts ranging from liturgy to pharmacology via hagiography, calendars and ascetical works by Isaac of Nineveh, this volume completes the publication of all known Christian Sogdian texts. This volume completes the publication of the Christian Sogdian texts of the Berlin Turfan Collection begun by F. W. K. Müller in 1907. Several Syriac texts are also included, in particular a series of liturgical texts in Syriac with Sogdian rubrics (edited in collaboration with J. F. Coakley). The texts edited here are mostly short but extremely varied and interesting. The Syriac liturgical fragments are some of the earliest surviving witnesses to the liturgy of the "Church of the East", though the Sogdian rubrics which accompany them show that those who performed them were not native speakers of Syriac. Other texts connected with the liturgy include a Sogdian version of the Gloria in excelsis and a text explaining how to calculate the date of Easter or Lent. Hagiographical texts include fragments of the martyrdoms of St George and of Cyriacus and Julitta as well as part of the so-called "Six Books" on the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Two pharmacological fragments (edited in collaboration with Dieter Maue) show familiarity with Indian medicine, while a "prayer-amulet" belongs rather to a Syriac tradition. Finally, a chapter contributed by Adrian Pirtea contains the re-edition of a well-preserved folio identified by him as a Sogdian version of a work by Isaac of Nineveh. The edition and translation of the texts is accompanied by a detailed commentary. The volume is completed by a full glossary, a bibliography, and a word-index covering all five of the author's volumes of Christian Sogdian texts in the series BTT.
Series Statement
Berliner Turfantexte, 0138-4228 ; XLV
Uniform Title
Berliner Turfantexte ; 45.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Translations.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Texts.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
Language (note)
  • Sogdian and Syriac texts with facing English translations.
Call Number
JFG 19-238
ISBN
  • 2503584195
  • 9782503584195
LCCN
9782503584195
OCLC
1085159051
Author
Sims-Williams, Nicholas, author.
Title
From liturgy to pharmacology : Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection / by Nicholas Sims-Williams ; with contributions by J.F. Coakley, Dieter Maue and Adrian Pirtea.
Publisher
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Berliner Turfantexte, 0138-4228 ; XLV
Berliner Turfantexte ; 45.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
Language
Sogdian and Syriac texts with facing English translations.
Added Author
Coakley, J. F., contributor.
Maue, Dieter, contributor.
Pirtea, Adrian, contributor.
Turfansammlung.
Other Standard Identifier
9782503584195
Research Call Number
JFG 19-238
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