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TM 115187 / LDAB 115187 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/115187

previously also TM 115190 (joined)

Metadata

Date: 7th century AD: AD 600 - 699

Provenance: Syria ? - Syria (SyriaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - SyriaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Syriac (paleography: estrangela)

Material: parchment

Book form: codex (188 fol.); columns per page: 2; number of lines per page: 36-40

Content (beta!): literary text, (1, 5-7, 10, 12-13) Sergius of Resh'aina; (2-3) Porphyrius; (4, 8-9) Aristoteles; (11) Bardesanes; (16) Isocrates; (17) Ambrosius; (18) Menander; (21) Melito philosophus (22) Mara bar Serapion; (23-25) Plato philos.; (26) Theano: (4) categories (16) ad Demonicum (17) Hypomnemata (18) Sententiae (21) oration; (22) letter; (23) definitions (26) maxims

Authors / works: Sergius of Ras’ain, Treatise on logic (?) (direct attestation)
Porphyrius of Tyrus, Isagoge (Syriac): treatise on logic (direct attestation)
Aristoteles, Categoriae (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Aristoteles, Meteorologica (Syriac): (peri kosmou ad Alexandrum) (direct attestation)
Philippus of Edessa, De fato (direct attestation)
Isocrates, Ad Demonicum (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Ambrosius, Opus incertum (Syriac): (hypomnemata) (direct attestation)
Menander, Sententiae (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Pseudo-Pythagoras, Opus incertum (Syriac) (?): sententiae (direct attestation)
Pseudo-Plato, Horoi (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Sergius of Ras’ain, Philosophic discourse (?) (direct attestation)
Sergius of Ras’ain, On negation and affirmation (?) (direct attestation)
Sergius of Ras’ain, On the causes of the universe (?) (direct attestation)
Sergius of Ras’ain, On genus, species and individuality (?) (direct attestation)
Sergius of Ras’ain, On the influence of the moon (?) (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, poetry, wisdom, philosophy, oratory, letter (religion: christian)

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM

Publications

Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 3 987 (p. 1154-1160) (Wright, William - 1872) [default]

∙Brock, An inventory of Syriac texts published from manuscripts in the British Library p. 129-130 [14658] descr. (Brock, Sebastian P. - 2020)

∙Aqdam targame suryyaniyya li-Isagugi Furfuryus passim [Porphyrius, Isagoge] (Brock, Sebastian P. - 1988)

∙Journal of the Iraqi Academy, Syriac corporation 12 (1988), p. 315-366 [14658] (Brock, Sebastian P. - 1988; Porphyrius)

∙Baarda, The Old Testament Pseudepigraphica 2 p. 583-606 (Baarda, T. - 1985)

∙Sachau, Inedita Syria. Eine Sammlung syrischer Uebersetzungen von Schriften griechischer Profanliteratur p. 70-75 (Sachau, Eduard - 1870)

∙Land, Anecdota Syriaca p. 64 l. 21 - 73 l. 18 & p. 154-164 (Land, J. P. N. - 1862)

∙Journal asiatique. 4e série 19 (1852), p. 294 (Renan, Ernest - 1852)

Content studies: P. Bettiolo, in: M.S. Funghi (ed.), Aspetti di letteratura gnomica nel mondo antico, Firenze 2003, p. 83-103 and p. 293-300; Y. Arzhanov; Le Muséon 130 (2017), p. 73-75 [Menander]

Collections

→ London, British Library Add MS 14658

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