December 30, 2023 Journal article Open Access

Butts, Aaron

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{"DOI":"10.25592/uhhfdm.14088","abstract":"<p>In 1905, Alphonse Mingana published a two-volume edition of metrical homilies, or m\u0113mr\u0113, of the important East-Syriac theologian and poet Narsai (d. c.500). This edition remains the field-standard resource for scholars working on Narsai. In the present article, I draw attention to four cases in which a line was missing from the manuscript(s) that served as the basis of Mingana&rsquo;s edition, resulting in a broken couplet in Mingana&rsquo;s text. I restore these couplets by consulting ms Diyarbak\u0131r 70 (= Da), which was copied near Erbil in 1328, and thereby I recover some lost lines of Narsai. In a concluding appendix, I discuss how these lost lines can serve as errores significativi (Leitfehler) for establishing a stemma of the manuscripts of Narsai&rsquo;s m\u0113mr\u0113.</p>","author":[{"family":"Butts, Aaron"}],"container_title":"Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin","id":"14088","issue":"1-2","issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,30]]},"page":"7-23","title":"Recovering Some Lost Lines  in the M\u0113mr\u0113 of Narsai (d. c.500),  with an Appendix on a Stemma of Manuscripts of Narsai","type":"article-journal","volume":"9"}