Email this article “Grammar is the bridge to all knowledge”: short poems on the flyleaves in a manuscript of the metrical grammar
- Authors: Pritula A.D.1,2,3
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Affiliations:
- State Hermitage museum
- Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
- National Research University Higher School of Economics
- Issue: Vol 18, No 1 (2021)
- Pages: 44-52
- Section: Research works
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/1811-8062/article/view/59206
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/WMO59206
- ID: 59206
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The article examines short poems written in the hand of ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā, East Syrian patriarch (1555–1570), poet and scribe, in his own copy of Bar ʿEbrōyō’s Metrical Grammar (1226–1286).
The short works in question were added by the scribe himself between the larger texts, as well as on the flyleaves. The question of the relation of these poems, as regards their contents, to the main text of
the Metrical Grammar is essential. This paper discusses the poetic features of these short texts, mainly quatrains, which illustrate the complex processes in the literary life of Christian communities during the Ottoman period. In addition, a general typology of these previously unknown texts is constructed.
About the authors
Anton D. Pritula
State Hermitage museum; Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies; National Research University Higher School of Economics
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Email: pritulanna@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2354-1171
Scopus Author ID: 6507507803
ResearcherId: ABB-6560-2020
https://www.hse.ru/staff/apritula
Cand. Sci. (Philology), Leading Researcher, Oriental Department
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaia naberezhnaia 34, 191186References
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