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Greetings!. It’s been a long while, but if you’re interested in more posts like those you’ve seen here at hmmlorientalia, please check out fringe philology, a site I’ve set up for some of...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2023/05/25/fringe-philology/

Some time ago I pointed out an Arabic/Garšūnī colophon with the phrase, “sinking in the sea of sin,” and I have since found another example from the fourteenth century (SMMJ 250, dated 135...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/sinking-in-the-sea-of-sin-pt-ii-ephraem-armeniacus-adorator/

The text this time is longer than others in the series, but here is the whole of Physiologus § 13 in Georgian. The Georgian version was published by Marr (in asomtavruli, with Armenian) and late...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/old-georgian-phrases-and-sentences-physiologus-%C2%A7-13/

CFMM 167 and 165 (in that order) are two small notebooks from the late 19th or early 20th century. There is no explicit date, nor did the scribe give a name, but the writing is very clear. Includ...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/four-unpublished-homilies-of-jacob-of-serugh-with-a-19th-cent-image-of-the-golden-horn-constantinople/

One of the pleasures of cataloging manuscripts is learning about authors and texts that are relatively little known. One such Syriac author is Athanasios (Abū Ġalib) of Ǧayḥān (Ceyhan). Two...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/athanasios-abu-galib-of-%C7%A7ay%E1%B8%A5an-ceyhan-d-1177/

Some time ago I shared some excerpts in English translation from the Syriac version of the Martyrdom of Christopher. One of my favorite aspects of hagiographic study is the fact that so many text...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/saint-christopher-the-dog-headed-armenian-georgian-old-english/

In the synaxarion for Sept 15, we find in the commemoration of Niketas the Goth (cf. BHG 1339-1340) a brief mention of the famous Ulfilas. As an exercise for students of Armenian, here is the pas...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/ulfilas-and-gothic-christianity-from-the-commemoration-of-niketas-the-goth-in-greek-georgian-and-armenian/

(Apologia: Some background on the writing of this post. I wrote most of this post and translated the text when under the impression that there was not yet any English translation of it. I had stu...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/a-syriac-report-on-the-comet-of-1577/

Liv Ingeborg Lied (here), taking as a starting point a recent article by Alin Suciu, has recently made some important remarks on 4 Ezra in Syriac. Here I would like to add a little about this tex...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/on-4-ezra-in-old-georgian-with-a-synoptic-text-sample-of-522-30/

This is our second passage from the Georgian Book of Adam in OGPS, the first being № 26, where some basic data about the text will be found. The text for today is from p. 111.18-27 in the editi...

https://hmmlorientalia.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/old-georgian-phrases-and-sentences-63-book-of-adam-11/