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Recovering Some Lost Lines in the Mēmrē of Narsai (d. c.500), with an Appendix on a Stemma of Manuscripts of Narsai

Butts, Aaron

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  <dc:creator>Butts, Aaron</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2023-12-30</dc:date>
  <dc:description>In 1905, Alphonse Mingana published a two-volume edition of metrical homilies, or mēmrē, 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’s edition, resulting in a broken couplet in Mingana’s text. I restore these couplets by consulting ms Diyarbakır 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’s mēmrē.</dc:description>
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  <dc:source>Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 9(1-2) 7-23</dc:source>
  <dc:subject>Manuscript studies</dc:subject>
  <dc:title>Recovering Some Lost Lines  in the Mēmrē of Narsai (d. c.500),  with an Appendix on a Stemma of Manuscripts of Narsai</dc:title>
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December 30, 2023
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10.25592/uhhfdm.14088

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