DescriptionThe Vatican Library has one of the most famous collections of Syriac manuscripts in Europe. These two volumes, written by members of the Assemani family intimately familiar with the collection, cover...
DescriptionThe Franciscan Tommaso Obicini (1585-1632) was an early pioneer of Oriental studies and published materials dealing with Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic. This large volume is a classified vocabulary list...
DescriptionJessie Payne Margoliouth, who was responsible for the widely used English abridgment of her father’s massive Thesaurus Syriacus, here includes additional material for the Thesaurus, based on three...
DescriptionJ. P. N. Land spent 1857-58 in London studying Syriac manuscripts. These four volumes are the result of that labor, and they remain an essential source for Syriac students interested in a variety of...
DescriptionJ. P. N. Land spent 1857-58 in London studying Syriac manuscripts. These four volumes are the result of that labor, and they remain an essential source for Syriac students interested in a variety of...
DescriptionWhile Ephrem the Syrian had earned some reputation among Greek and Latin writers of the fifth century, his genuine works, in Syriac, remained generally inaccessible to western readers. A large corpus...
DescriptionIn the two articles reprinted here, Dom Hugh Connolly offers an English translation of two homilies from Jacob of Serugh dealing with the Eucharist. Connolly used the Syriac text of Bedjan’s edition...
DescriptionS. E. Assemani, who is well known to students of Syriac and Eastern Christian literature, here presents a large number of Syriac texts of martyrdoms from both the east and west, together with Latin...
DescriptionS. E. Assemani, who is well known to students of Syriac and Eastern Christian literature, here presents a large number of Syriac texts of martyrdoms from both the east and west, together with Latin...