A Syriac Service-Book from Turfan
Museum fur asiatische Kunst, Berlin MS MIK III 45
Edited by Erica Hunter Edited by J-F Coakley
Paperback (Published)
(December 2017)
ISBN: 9782503574714
Price: $88.00
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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 Bulayiq. 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
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 Bulayiq. 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 hudra, 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.
- Edited by Erica Hunter
- Edited by J-F Coakley
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