Manuscripts

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Birol, Simon and Aly Elrefaei. „Manuscripts“. Ahiqar. The Story of Ahiqar in Its Syriac and Arabic Tradition, [date], ahiqar.uni-goettingen.de/manuscripts.html.

Overview of the Manuscripts

The Arabic and Karshuni witnesses

Borg. Arab. 201

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Vatican Library (Vatican), Borg. ar. 201

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 19th century

Bibliography

  • Graf, GCAL I, p. 218.
  • Delio V. Proverbio, Turcica Vaticana. Città del Vaticano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010), p. 199.
  • E. Tisserant, Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits arabes du fonds Borgia à la Bibliothèque Vaticane, in Miscellanea Francesco Ehrle. Scritti di storia e paleografia pubblicati sotto gli auspici di S. S. Pio XI in occasione dell'ottantesimo natalizio dell'E.mo cardinale Francesco Ehrle, V: Biblioteca ed Archivio Vaticano. Biblioteche diverse, Roma 1924, pp. 1-34 (20).

Editor's statements

  • The last two sections of the story including Ahikar return to Assyria and his parables are missing from the MS.
  • Nadan is written Nathan
  • Orthographic mistakes like: كلمن instead of كل من
  • Orthographic irregularities: فاحذرتك instead of فأحضرتك

Brit_Libr_Or_9321

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: British Library (Great Britain), Brit. Libr. Or. 9321

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iraq, Alqosh
  • Date of creation: 1896

Bibliography

  • Handlist of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since 1899, p. 2.
  • Braida, Emanuela, "The Romance of Aḥiqar the Wise in the Neo-Aramaic MS London Sachau 9321", Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 14 (2014): 50-78.
  • Braida, Emanuela, "The Romance of Aḥiqar the Wise in the Neo-Aramaic MS London Sachau 9321: Part II", Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 15 (2015): 41-50.
  • Braida, Emanuela, "Neo-Aramaic Garshuni: Observations Based on Manuscripts." Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 17.1 (2014): 17–31.
  • Talia, Shawqi N. "The story of Ahiqar in Syriac and neo-Aramaic: a textual, linguistic and historical comparison", Parole de l’Orient 40 (2015), 429-445.
  • Mengozzi, A, "The Neo-Aramaic manuscripts of the British Library: notes on the study of the durikyata as a Neo-Syriac genre," Le Muséon 112 (1999), 459-494.

Editor's statements

  • bilingual manuscript contains a Sureth version of the Story of Ahiqar together with its translation into Arabic. This text was copied in Baghdad by the priest Gibrayl Quryaquza on Sachau’s request at the end of the 19th century (see Braida, ""Neo-Aramaic Garshuni", 26).
  • the copist writes ā with a sequence of madda and hamza: ـــــــــــــَآء instead of calssical ـــــــاء e.g., الحكمآء, الغنآء
  • Nādān in written Ndʾān and Nḏʾān.
  • King of Persian is called king of Persia and Elam.
  • The Swordsman is called Nābūsmīǧ.
  • This MS uses speical words not found in other Arabic MSS such as (أخمص قدمي، قِلّيّة، مقالي، جذوة، سجف، بابوج، قرطب، وكيل، مخدع، أنبار)
  • Words with Syriac origin: كراس
  • Words with Persian origin: ابريسم، بابوج
  • Words with Latin origin:قِلِّيَّة

Brit.Mus. cod. Add. 7209

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: British Library (Great Britain), Brit. Mus. Add. 7209

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown, unknown
  • Date of creation: 1560

Bibliography

  • J. Forshall and Rosen, F. A., Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars prima: codices syriacos et carshunicos amplectens. London: British Museum, 1838, p. 111 (No.14).
  • W. Wright, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1838, vol. 3, 3 vol. London: British Library, 1872, p. 1238.

Editor's statements

  • This manuscript was used in the edition of Conybeare (The story of Ahikar, 1898)to supplement in some places.
  • The English translation provided here shares many expressions with the text of Mrs. Lewis in Conybear's edition.
  • The letter "و" (waw) is used as a diacritic to indicate the short vowel sound (ḍammah) instead of using the actual diacritic symbol of ḍammah (ٌ):خدمتوك، قتلتوك، تركتوك
  • The Hamzah (ء) is dropped altogether, and sometimes substituted by the letter "ي" (ya): سرايري، طرايقهم
  • Words with Syriac origin:ܫܝܩܐ ;جومة ܓܘܡܬܐ ;ܟܪܙܐ (كَرَّاز)؛؛؛؟; ܩܘܩܝܐ
  • Words with Persian origin: جوسق

CH 17

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Notre Dame University, Louaize (Lebanon), CH 17 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin:
  • Date of creation: 18th century

Bibliography

  • Notre Dame of Louize Monastery manuscript collection catalog, Center for Digitization and Preservation, Notre Dame University, Louaize (2012).

Editor's statements

  • Naskh
  • Unique words that do not appear in other manuscripts:مجادلات، حلو المعاني، البس حواسك، سحت، شلح، تخت

Cod. Add. 2886

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: University Library, Cambridge University (Great Britain), Camb. Add. 2886 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Jacobite Karshuni

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Syria, An Nabk
  • Date of creation: 1783

Bibliography

  • W. Wright, A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, vol. 2, 2 vol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901, pp. 732-739.

Editor's statements

  • Scribe: rabban 'Abdallāh of ṣadad, son of the deacon Nāmūsī, son of Tilījān, of the family of Abū Thābit (f. 200v).
  • The text is unvocalized and characterized by uncertain syntax, morphology, and spelling, especially in the notation of the hamzah.
  • Transliterated and translated to English in: F. C. Conybeare, J. Rendel Harris, and Agnes Smith Lewis (eds.,) The Story of Aḥikar: from the Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Old Turkish, Greek and Slavonic versions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913), 1-33 (arab. Pag.), Eng. trans. 130-161, APOT II, 729a-776b.
  • The editor (Mrs. Lewis) added to the text of this manuscript ten passages, three of which are borrowed from the edition of Salhani (Contes arabes, 1890), p. 3, 4, 8, and seven from Brit. Mus. 7209, p. 4, 5, 7, 8, 20, 28.

Cambrigde Add 3497

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Cambridge University Library (Great Britian), Cambrigde Add. 3497 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: Bequest of F. Chance (1825-1897) in no date.

Bibliography

  • E. G. Browne, A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1900), p. 335.
  • Graf, GCAL I, p. 219.

Editor's statements

  • Manuscript is written in clear naskh.

Cod. Arab. 236. Transcript

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Royal Danish Library (Denemark), Cod. Arab. 236

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Syria, Aleppo
  • Date of creation: 1670

Bibliography

  • Codices Orientales Bibliothecae Regiae Havniensis jussu et auspiciis Regis Daniae Augustissimi Christiani VIII. enumerati et descripti: Ps. 2. Codices Hebraici et Arabici Bibliothecae Regiae Hafniensis jussu et auspiciis regiis enumerati et descripti (Hafniae: Schultz, 1851), pp. 139- 140.
  • Irmeli Perho, Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts, codices arabici et codices arabici additamenta, vol. 2, 3 vol (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2007), p. 913.

Editor's statements

  • Scribe: [al-Khuri] Shahedeh (fol.41b).
  • Naskh
  • /ḍ/ is written /ẓ/ such as: مظى instead of مضى
  • /ḍ/ is written /ṭ/ such as: تقطي instead of تقضي
  • /ḏ/ is not punctuated: أخد instead of of أخذ
  • /ṯ/ is written /t/: تياب instaed of ثياب
  • There are many errors in the written text, such as spelling mistakes or incorrect punctuation.

DFM 00614

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Dominican Friars of Mosul (Iraq), DFM 00614 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iraq, Mosul
  • Date of creation: 1885

Editor's statements

  • Scribe:ʿbd al-krīm (fol.103v).
  • The copist writes ā with a sequence of madda as in نسآء، أصفيآء، السمآء
  • The copist transcribes some lines in Karshuni.
  • Diacritical marks have extensive usage.
  • Words with Persian origin: فرسخ، دستور

GCAA 00486

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Archdiocese of Aleppo (Melchite) (Syria), GCAA 00486 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Syria, Aleppo
  • Date of creation: 18th century

Bibliography

  • Francisco del Río Sánchez et al., Catalogue des manuscrits conservés dans la bibliothèque de l’archevêché grec-catholique d’Alep (Syrie) (2003).

Editor's statements

  • Naskh
  • Gaps are found in the sayings,the second narrative section, and in the parables.
  • /ḏ/ is not punctuated
  • /ẓ/ is written /ḍ/ as in عضيم instead of عظيم

MS 619

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Université Saint-Joseph. Bibliothèque orientale (Lebanon), MS 619 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Lebanon, Beirut
  • Date of creation: 1858

Bibliography

  • Louis Cheikho, Catalogue raisonné des manuscrits historiques de la Bibliothèque Orientale de l'Université Saint-Joseph. Arabic mss. 1-792 (1913-1929).

Editor's statements

  • Naskh
  • Scribe: (ḥbīb ibn mrʿī mṭr)حبيب ابن مرعي مطر
  • /ẗ/ is written /t/: الكتابت instead of الكتابة

MS 621

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Université Saint-Joseph. Bibliothèque orientale (Lebanon), MS 621 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Syria (?), Aleppo (?)
  • Date of creation: 17th century

Bibliography

  • Louis Cheikho, Catalogue raisonné des manuscrits historiques de la Bibliothèque Orientale de l'Université Saint-Joseph. Arabic mss. 1-792 (1913-1929).

Editor's statements

  • Naskh
  • Scribe: ( nʿmẗ ibn al-šmās ʿbd al-lh ibn al-ḥāǧ mīẖāʾīl ibn al-ǧbīr al-ḥlbī) نعمة ابن الشماس عبد الله ابن الحاج ميخائيل ابن الجبير الحلبي
  • /ṭ/ is written /ẓ/: احظره instead of احضره
  • /t/ is written /ṯ/: وقث instead of وقت
  • /ḏ/ is written /d/: هدا instead of هذا
  • /ẗ/ is written /t/: الرسالت instead of الرسالة

MS 626

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Université Saint-Joseph. Bibliothèque orientale (Lebanon), MS 626 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin:
  • Date of creation: 19th century

Bibliography

  • Louis Cheikho, Catalogue raisonné des manuscrits historiques de la Bibliothèque Orientale de l'Université Saint-Joseph. Arabic mss. 1-792 (1913-1929).

Editor's statements

  • Naskh
  • The end of this manuscript is missing.
  • The text is full of orthographic errors, most of which are due to the carelessness of the copyist.
  • The copyist quotes numerous unknown poetic verses.
  • The manuscript contains words that do not appear in other manuscripts: غلوة، غصَّ، بدرق، خاوز، حطر
  • /ẗ/ is written /t/: التربيت instead of التربية

MS 882

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Church of the Forty Martyrs (Turkey Mardin), MS 882 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 15th-16th century

Editor's statements

  • Serto
  • The parables and the third narrative section, or the fate of Nadan, are missing.
  • Sometimes the /t/ is replaced with a /ẗ/) like (كانة) instead of (كانت) and vice verse /ẗ/ is replaced with /t/ like (شيخوخت) instead of (شيخوخة)
  • Words not found in other MSS: غول ، دمث ، خلم، تريم
  • Orthographic mistakes like:كليوم ، كلشي
  • Words with Syriac origin: إِرْدخَل (ܐܪܕܟܠܐ)

MS 956

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Manuscript Identifier

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Lebanon, Ṣarbā (Jūniyah)
  • Date of creation: 17th century

Editor's statements

  • Naskh
  • The copyist quoted several poetic stanzas.
  • A number of proverbs are missing from the sayings.
  • Manuscript is imperfect with loss of text.

Mingana Syriac 258

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham (Great Britain), Mingana Syr. 258

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1570

Bibliography

  • A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement [1], vol. 1, 3 vol. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1933 ,pp, 514-515.

Editor's statements

  • West Syrian
  • The parables section in this manuscript is incomplete.
  • The carelessness of the copyist has caused many orthographic errors: كنتوا، وصلتوا، اخطيتوا،فعلتوا
  • The name which Ahikar has given to himself in Egypt is Abīšām.
  • Words with Persian origin: زنجير، تخت
  • The scribe uses the letter "waw" (و) instead of a short vowel (damma): فعلتوا، بقيتوا، اطعمتوك

Mingana Arabic Christian 93 (84)

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham (Great Britain), Mingana ar. christ. 93[84]

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1780

Bibliography

  • A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts, vol. 2, 3 vol (Cambridge: Heffer, 1933), pp. 130-132
  • Graf, GCAL I, p. 219.

Editor's statements

  • Egyptian Naskhi
  • Sennacherib is written Sennakherib.
  • The text contains many orthographic errors due to the careless hand of the scribe.
  • Orthographic mistakes: كرامتن instead of كرامة
  • The "dammah" (a short vowel sound) being written as the letter "waw": لهو instead of لهُ
  • /ẓ/is written /ḍ/: غلض instaed of غلظ

Mingana Syriac 133

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham (Great Britain), Mingana syr. 133

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1809

Bibliography

  • A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement [1], vol. 1, 3 vol. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1933, pp. 308-309.

Editor's statements

  • Scribe:Joseph, son of Isaac an-Najjar, son of 'Abd al-Karim.
  • Script: West Syrian

Mingana Syriac 237

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham (Great Britain), Mingana syr. 237

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1750

Bibliography

  • Mingana, Alphonse, Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, vol. 1, Cambridge 1933, 483-484.
  • Graf, GCAL I, p. 219.
  • Brock, Sebastian P., "A Piece of Wisdom Literature in Syriac", Journal of Semitic Studies 13/2 (1968), p. 212-217.

Editor's statements

  • West Syrian
  • This fragment is a conversation between Pharaoh and Ahikar.

MS orient 2652

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Germany), Ms. orient. A 2652 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown

Bibliography

  • W. Pertsch, Die orientalischen Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Gotha, vol. 4 (Gotha, 1883 ), p, 405 (No.5).
  • C. H. Cornill, Das Buch der weisen Philisophen (Leipzig, 1875), p. 32.

Editor's statements

  • The codex is apparently transcribed from a purely Arabic, but strongly mixed with Syriac (see Cornill, 40).
  • Cornill translated 15 sayings from this ocdex into his Ethiopian edition of Ahikar.

Or. 1292. The Arabic Text in Leiden.

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Leiden University Library (Netherlands), Or. 1292b (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown

Bibliography

  • Jan Just Witkam, Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts in Leiden University Library, vol. 2, 28 vol (Leiden, 2007), p. 102.
  • P. Voorhoeve, Handlist of Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and other collections in the Netherlands (Leiden University Press, 1980), p. 422.

Editor's statements

  • A similar version to this MS can be found in John Rylands Library, Manchester No.650.

Paris. ar. 3656

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (France), Paris Arabe 3656 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1689

Bibliography

  • Notices de manuscrits arabes rédigées par Georges Vajda. Notices des manuscrits Arabe 3630 à 4155, p. 30.
  • W. M. G. de Slane, Catalogue Des Manuscrits Arabes (Bibliothèque Nationale. Département des Manuscrits. Paris : Impr. Nationale, 1883-1895), p. 624.
  • L. Leroy, "Histoire d'Haikar le sage d'après les manuscrits arabes 3637 et 3656 de Paris," ROC 13 (1908): 367-388; idem, ROC 14 (1909): 50- 70. 143-154.

Editor's statements

  • Masnuscript has a gap of several leaves.

Cod. Arabe. 3637.Transcript

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (France), Paris. Arabe 3637 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1772

Bibliography

  • Notices de manuscrits arabes rédigées par Georges Vajda. Notices des manuscrits Arabe 3630 à 4155, p.8.
  • W. M. G. de Slane, Catalogue Des Manuscrits Arabes (Bibliothèque Nationale. Département des Manuscrits. Paris: Impr. Nationale, 1883-1895), p. 621.

Editor's statements

  • Translated to French by Caussin de Perceval, Les mille et une nuits continuès, VIII, 1806. Transcribed and compared with Paris maunscipt 3656 and the Arabic text fo Mrs. Lewis by L. Leroy in: "Histoire d'Haikar le sage d'après les manuscrits arabes 3637 et 3656 de Paris (1)", ROC 13 (1908): 367-388; ROC 14 (1909): 50- 70, 143-154.
  • English translation by Burton in: SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS To The Book Of The Thousand And One Nights, vol.6.
  • The dots are often omitted: "يعتدر" means "heavy rain", instead of "يعتذر" which means "find excuse".

Cod. Sach. 339. Transcrip

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Staatsbibliothek in Berlin (Germany), Sachau 290 (=Sachau 339) (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Tur Abdin
  • Date of creation: 19th century

Bibliography

  • E. Sachau, Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin: Behrend, 1899), p. 815.
  • M. Lidzbarski, "Zum weisen Achikar" ZDMG 48/4 (1894): 671- 675.
  • M. Lidzbarski, Die neu-aramäischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin I (Weimar: Felber, 1896), 1-77: Arabic and Neo-Syriac. Ibid, II, 1-41, German translation of the Neo-Syriac text.

Editor's statements

  • The Arabic text is written with a fine naskh calligraphy.
  • The Arabic text is translated on the opposite page of the manuscript to Neo-Syriac resp. Turoyo (dialect of Tur 'Abdin).
  • The Arabic Text is transcribed in: Die neu-aramäischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Bd. 1. Weimar: Felber, 1896, p. 1- 77; German translation by Lidzbarski in: Die neu-aramäischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Bd. 1. Weimar: Felber, 1896, p. 1- 41.
  • The first group of sayings are missing from this manuscript.
  • The text is an Arabic abridgment of the Syriac version(Nau, pp. 86–87).
  • The Arabic text offers a much more original recension than that published by Salhani in the Contes arabes (Lidzbarski, Zum weisen Achikar, 671.
  • Hamza /ء/ is written /y/ as in عظمايه instead of عظمائه

Sbath 25 ff. 1v-46r

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Manuscript Identifier

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 12th century

Bibliography

  • Graf, GCAL I, 219.
  • Gregorius Paulos Bahnam, Aḥīqār al-Ḥakīm (Syriac Academy Publications: Bagdad, 1976).
  • Paul Sbath, Bibliothèque de Manuscrits Paul Sbath, Prêtre Syrien d'Alep vol. 1, 3 vol (Cairo, 1928), pp. 18-19.
  • Delio V. Proverbio, Turcica Vaticana. Città del Vaticano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010), p. 199.

Editor's statements

  • The oldest known manuscript up to date for the Arabic version of Ahikar.
  • Scribe: Ibrāhīm bn sʿīd bn ṣālḥ bn msʿūd bn Ibrāhīm bn msʿūd.
  • The firt page of the MS is writen in Karshuni.
  • Some words have been faded and there is a small gap in the sayings.
  • Comparing with other MSS, personal names have been differently transcribed: (Ḥāqār, šfnā, Yābūsm) instaed of (Haiqār, Ishfaghni, Abū Samik).
  • Tashkeel errors show diacritic mark "Tanween with kasra: ـٍ" is written on the letter "alif" in certain words, بمجدًا، بخمرًا، بشيئًا
  • Sometimes the letter "ض" (ḍ) is written "ظ" (ẓ) such as "ظرب" instead of "ضرب", "ظحك" instead of "ضحك", and "ظيم" instead of "ضيم"
  • Words of Persian origin: (حوشكاشة/خوشكاشة)،(ديوان)، (دستور)
  • Words of Syriac origin: سنورة ܣܢܘܪܐ ؛ شبَّوقة ܫܒܘܩܐ

Syr 17

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Syria Allepo), Syr 17 (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Lebanon
  • Date of creation: 19th century

Bibliography

  • Paul Sbath, Bibliothèque de manuscrits Paul Sbath, prêtre syrien d’Alep: Catalogue, 3 vols. (1928-1934); Francisco del Río Sánchez, Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie) (2008).

Editor's statements

  • Serto
  • The manuscript was formerly known as Sbath MS 1250.
  • Scribe: al-ẖūrī īūsf īūns.
  • Dots are fallen, no distinction is made between ṭ/ẓ, d/ḏ and t/ṯ
  • Ahikar's wife is not mentioned by name.
  • Orthographic mistakes: انكان، كليوم

Vat. Arab. 2054

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Manuscript Identifier

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 02.07.1814

Bibliography

  • Delio V. Proverbio, Turcica Vaticana. Città del Vaticano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010), p. 199.

Editor's statements

  • scribe: Anṭūn Ḥamwi
  • This fragment has only a small part of the narrative and the rest of the story is missing.

Vat. Arab. 74 ff. 119r-123v

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Vatican Library (Vatican), Vat. ar. 74 (Scandar 40) (Digital Source)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1455

Bibliography

  • Graf, GCAL 1, p. 218.
  • Delio V. Proverbio, Turcica Vaticana. Città del Vaticano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010), p. 199.

Editor's statements

  • Singular translation from the Syriac by Musa ibn Aṭšah.
  • This MS represents a different line of tradition than other Arabic and Garsh MSS. Words like (حدايف، زعرور، تقمقم) are not found in other MSS. Sayings are paraphrased differently.
  • The MS has only the sayings. Narrative and parables are missing.
  • Ahikar is transcribed Abīḥ-qār.

Vat. sir. 159

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Manuscript Identifier

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1625

Bibliography

  • J. S. Assemani and Assemani, S. E., Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codicum manuscriptorum catalogus, in tres partes distributus, in quarum prima Orientales, in altera Graeci, in tertia Latini, Italici aliorumque Europaeorum idiomatum codices, vol. 3, 3 vol. Paris: Maisonneuve, 1759, p. 315.
  • Delio V. Proverbio, Turcica Vaticana. Città del Vaticano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010), p. 199.
  • E. Kuhn, “Zum weisen Akyrios”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift vol.1 (1892), pp. 127-130.

Editor's statements

  • Scribe: Ephraemi Gargarenfis (fol.300v).
  • The careless hand of scribe has caused many orthographic irregularities and mistakes: قلتوا، اخذتوا should be قلتُ، أخذتُ
  • Ahiqar is written with the Arabic definite article-al- الحيقار al-ḥīqār (resemlbes to the archaic form mentioned by ʿdī bn zīd (6th century).
  • Abikam is written Abīšām.
  • Words with Perisan origin: بس
  • There are many instances of word fusion, where two words are written together without spaces: كلمن، كلشي، منكل

Vat. Syriac. 199, ff.261v-280v

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Manuscript Identifier

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Syria, An Nabk
  • Date of creation: 1545

Bibliography

  • J. S. Assemani and Assemani, S. E., Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codicum manuscriptorum catalogus, in tres partes distributus, in quarum prima Orientales, in altera Graeci, in tertia Latini, Italici aliorumque Europaeorum idiomatum codices, vol. 3, 3 vol. Paris: Maisonneuve, 1759, p. 447.
  • Graf, GCAL I, p. 218.
  • Delio V. Proverbio, Turcica Vaticana. Città del Vaticano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010), p. 199.

Editor's statements

  • Scribe: Bešārh ibn ʿbd al-ʿzīz (fol. 417).
  • Words with Perisan origin:دِردار
  • Words with Syriac origin: حيل (ܚܝܠ)
  • Incorrect usage of the diacritic mark Tanween with a kasra (ـٍ) is written on the letter "alif" such as: بولداً، بصوتًا

Vat. Syriac. 424 ff. 304r-327v

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Manuscript Identifier

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1417

Bibliography

  • S. E. Assemani and A. Assemani, "Codices chaldaici sive syriaci Vaticani Assemaniani", in Scriptorum veterum nova collectio e Vaticanis codicibus edita, vol. 5. 2 (Rome: Vatican apostolic publisher, 1831), pp. 67-68.
  • Delio V. Proverbio, Turcica Vaticana. Città del Vaticano (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010), p. 199.

Editor's statements

  • Words with Perisan origin: دستور، بولاد
  • Sometimes the letter "ط" (ṭ) is written "ظ" (ẓ) such as "الأظفال" instead of "الأطفال"
  • Diacritic mark "Tanween with kasra: ـٍ" is written on the letter "alif" in certain words such as بولدًا، بصوتا، بربًا

Salhani

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  • Bibliographic Information: Salhani, Anton. Ṭarāʾif fukāhāt fī arbaʿ ḥikājāt (Contes Arabes). Beirut 1890. 1–20.

History

  • Object type: printed edition
  • Origin: Beirut
  • Date of creation: 1890

Bibliography

  • A. Salihani, Ed., Contes arabes: édités d'après un ms. de l'Université S. Joseph. Beirut: Impr. catholique, 1890, p. 1-20.
  • M. Lidzbarski, Die neu-aramäischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, vol. 2, 2 vol. Weimar: Emil Felber, 1896. Pp. 3-41.
  • Anis Fariha, Ahikar al-Hakim- from the ancient Near East (in Arabic) (Beirut, 1962).

Editor's statements

  • The text has lost much of its original form of narrative, the narration in the first person, in the names, and in the absence of whole pieces (Lidzbarski, Die neu-aramäischen Handschriften 2, p. 4).
  • Nadan is called Nathan.
  • The dots are sometimes omitted: داع

The Syriac witnesses

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ms. syr. 422 (= Ms. Pognon)

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (France), syr. 422
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown [19th cent. (?)]

Bibliography

  • Briquel-Chatonnet, F. 1997. Manuscrits syriaque de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (nos 356 - 435, entrés depuis 1911), de la bibliothèque Méjanes d'Aix-en-Provence, de la bibliothèque muncipale de Lyon et de la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 159-62.
  • Nau, F. "Documents relatifs à Aḥikar. Textes syriaques édités et traduits", Revue de l’Orient chrétien 21 (1918/1919): 274–307 and 356–400.
  • Nau, F. "Documents relatifs à Aḥikar. Textes syriaques édités et traduits", Revue de l’Orient chrétien 21 (1918/1919): 274–307 and 356-400.
  • Nau, F. 1920. Documents relatifs à Aḥikar. Textes syriaques édités et traduits. Extrait de la Revue de l’Orient chrétien T. XXI, Paris: Librairie Auguste Picard, 72–92.

Editor's statements

  • 80 fols. (fol. 96r-136r)
  • East Syriac script
  • This manuscript has been possessed by Henri Pognon and was later part of the collection of F. Graffin.
  • Fols. 133r and 133v are blank

Tellkepe, QACCT 135

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Qalb al-Aqdas Chaldean Church in Tel Keppe (Iraq), 135 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: Deacon Matīkā bar Yawsep mār Mīkā bar Qūryaqūs bar Ǧerǧīs Ḥadādē beth Ḥaǧī (scribe)
  • Responsible: unknown (anonymous)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Al-Qosh
  • Date of creation: 1937

Editor's statements

  • 31 fols. (fol. 230r-246r)
  • East Syriac script
  • This manuscript has been relocated from Al-qosh to Tel Keppe.
  • Fols. 133r and 133v are blank

Jerusalem, SMMJ 162

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Jerusalem, St. Mark's Monastery (Israel), 162 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: Gabriel of Beth Sbīrīnā (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Mār Eugen near Nisibis
  • Date of creation: 1847-1871

Bibliography

  • Vööbus, A. 1980. Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Mēmrē-Dichtung des Ja‘qōb von Serūg. Die zerstreuten Mēmrē: Die Handschriften (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 421, Subsidia 60). Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 62-3.
  • Vööbus, A. 1980. Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Mēmrē-Dichtung des Ja‘qōb von Serūg. Die zerstreuten Mēmrē: Die Handschriften (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 421, Subsidia 60). Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 24–7.

Editor's statements

  • 3 pp. (fol. 113r-114v)
  • West Syriac script

Mosul, DFM 430

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Dominican Friars of Mosul (Iraq), 430 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iraq, Mosul
  • Date of creation: 1850-1933

Editor's statements

  • 54 pp.
  • East Syriac script
  • The manuscript is described in: https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/134604
  • Fol. 25rv is placed on a wrong place. This page was originally set between fol. 9v and 10r.
  • End is missing

Birmingham, Mingana Syriac 433

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: University of Birmingham (Great Britain), 433
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: ca. 1820

Bibliography

  • Mingana, A. 1933-9. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, 3. vols., Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1:767-8.
  • Brock, S. "Notes on some Texts in the Mingana Collection", Journal of Semitic Studies 14,2 (1969): 205-226.

Editor's statements

  • 48 pp. (fol. 1b-25a)
  • East Syriac script

Cambridge, Univ. Cant. Add. 2020

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: University of Cambridge - Cambridge University Library (Great Britain), Add. 2020
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: Priest Hormizd bar Ḥadbšabbā (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iraq, Alqosh
  • Date of creation: 18.10.1697

Bibliography

  • F. C. Conybeare, Harris, J. R., Lewis, A. S., Eds., The Story of Aḥiḳar from the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek and Slavonic Versions, London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1898.
  • F. C. Conybeare, Harris, J. R., Lewis, A. S., Eds., The Story of Aḥiḳar from the Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Old Turkish, Greek and Slavonic Versions, 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913.
  • P. Y. Dolabani, Ed., Aḥīqar sāprā w-ḥakīmā, Mardin: Maṭbaʻtā d-Mardīn, 1962.
  • Nöldeke, T. 1913. Untersuchungen zum Achiqar Roman. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch Historische Klasse NF , vol. 14.4, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
  • Wright, W. 1901. A catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge, 2 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2:583-9.

Editor's statements

  • 24 fols. (fol. 66v-78r)
  • East Syriac script
  • Copied for the Church Mār Mīlēs at Tell-haš
  • The creation of this manuscript has been sponsored by Priest Yaldā and Zīzē of Alqosh

London, Brit. Libr. Add. 7200

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: British Library (Great Britain), Add. 7200
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown; not before 1100, not after 1299

Bibliography

  • Forshall, J./ Rosen, F. A. 1838. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars prima: codices syriacos et carshunicos amplectens, London: British Museum, 93.
  • Wright, W. 1870-2. Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1838, 3 vols., London: British Museum, 3:1207.

Editor's statements

  • 2 fols. (fol. 114rv)
  • East Syriac script
  • The manuscript is heavily damaged and an unknown amount of pages of it were lost.

Aleppo, SCAA 7/229

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Aleppo (Syria), Ar 7/229 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknonw
  • Date of creation: unknown [18th cent. (?)]

Editor's statements

  • 9 pages (fol. 10r-14r)
  • West Syriac script
  • The manuscript has been described in: See: w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/512861
  • fol. 10v is blank
  • In some cases, the copyist explains Syriac words with their Arabic counterpart

Oxford MS SYR 21

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bodleian Library (Great Britain Oxford), MS SYR 21
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown; not before 1799, not after 1899

Bibliography

  • Brock, S. Margoliouth Collection of Syriac Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: A Handlist, URL: https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ld.php?content_id=17931955.

Editor's statements

  • 38 pp. (fol. 1r-8v, 15t-25v, 171r-v; the right order: fol. 171r-v, 2r-v, 1r-v, 6r-8v, 15r-25v)
  • East Syriac script
  • This manuscript was part of the collection of David Samuel Margoliouth (1858–1940). It was acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1980.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France et universitaire de Strasbourg, Ms. 4122

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (France), Manuscrit 4122 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: Augustine Thomas (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iran, Khorsabad in Oroomiah (Iran)
  • Date of creation: 25.12.1898

Bibliography

  • Briquel-Chatonnet, F. 1997. Manuscrits syriaque de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (nos 356 - 435, entrés depuis 1911), de la bibliothèque Méjanes d'Aix-en-Provence, de la bibliothèque muncipale de Lyon et de la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 210.

Editor's statements

  • 26 pp.
  • East Syriac script

London, Brit. Libr. Or. 2313

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: British Library (Great Britain), Or. 2313
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown; not before 1500, not after 1799

Bibliography

  • Margoliouth, G. 1899. Descriptive List of Syriac and Karshuni MSS. in the British Museum acquired since 1873, London: British Museum, 8.
  • Nöldeke, T. 1913. Untersuchungen zum Achiqar Roman. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch Historische Klasse NF , vol. 14.4, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.

Editor's statements

  • 18 pp. (fol. 172r-180v)
  • East Syriac script
  • The manuscript is badly water-damaged, and some pages have been lost.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Sachau 162

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Germany), Sachau 162 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Tur Abdin[?]
  • Date of creation: unknown [15th cent. (?); not after 1583]

Bibliography

  • Sachau, E. 1899. Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, 2 vols., Berlin: A. Asher & Co., 2:514-9.
  • Nau, F. 1920. Documents relatifs à Aḥikar. Textes syriaques édités et traduits. Extrait de la Revue de l’Orient chrétien T. XXI, Paris: Librairie Auguste Picard, 1–13.

Editor's statements

  • 12 pp. (fol. 86v-92r)
  • West Syriac script
  • The manuscript is heavily damaged at its margins and the text is incomplete.
  • Metadata, including a link to the digitized images, are viewable under: http://orient-digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/receive/SBBMSBook_islamhs_00010205
  • A transcription of the Ahiqar tale of this manuscript has been transcribed with a French translation in: Nau 1920, 1–13..

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Sachau 336

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Germany), Sachau 336 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: Deacon Francis Mīri (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iraq, Tellkepe
  • Date of creation: 1883

Bibliography

  • Sachau, E. 1899. Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, 2 vols., Berlin: A. Asher & Co., pp. 1:437-42.
  • Grünberg, S. 1917. Die weisen Sprüche des Achikar, nach der syrischen Hs Cod. Sachau Nr. 336 der Kgl. Bibliothek in Berlin, Gießen: H. Itzkowski, 1917.
  • Guzik, M. H. 1936. Die Achikar-Erzählung nach der syrischen Handschrift Cod. Sachau Nr. 336 der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Krakau: Renaissance.
  • Ebied, R./ Al-Jeloo, N. "Some Further Letters in Syriac, Neo-Aramaic and Arabic Addressed to Eduard Sachau by Jeremiah Shāmīr." Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 24,1 (2010): 1-45.
  • Nöldeke, T. 1913. Untersuchungen zum Achiqar Roman. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch Historische Klasse NF , vol. 14.4, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.

Editor's statements

  • 76 fols. (fol. 17v-55r)
  • East Syriac script
  • The version of the Ahiqar tale of this manuscript has been transcribed in: Grünberg 1917.
  • The sayings of the Ahiqar tale of this manuscript have been transcribed and translated into German in: Guzik 1937.
  • The Metadata, including a link to the digitized images, are viewable under: http://orient-digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/receive/SBBMSBook_islamhs_00010373

St. Petersburg, Sado no. 9

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Private property (Russia), Sado Collection ms. no. 9
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: John of Gawar (scribe)
  • Responsible: Anonymous [maybe Josef (son of the copyist John of Gawar)?] (owner (who made further scribal notes))

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iran, Urmia
  • Date of creation: February 19, 1904

Bibliography

  • Teule, H. G. B./ Kessel, G. 2012. "The Mikhail Sado Collection of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Petersburg." In: Eastern Christians and their written Heritage. Manuscripts, Scribes and Context, Eastern Christan Studies 14, edited by J. P. Monferrer-Sala, H. G. B. Teule, Sofía Torallas Tovar, Leuven/ Paris/ Walpole, MA: Peeters, 55-6.

Editor's statements

  • 30 pp.
  • Part of the Private Collection of the late Mikhail Sado
  • East Syriac script
  • Paper of Russian provenance.
  • The manuscript has slight damage.
  • At the last page, it is said that this booklet was written in 1906 by a deacon who was the son of the deacon John of Gawar. At the frontpage, the name deacon John, son of John of Gawar, is mentioned. The last page mentions Josef, the son of the aforementioned deacon, as the manuscript's owner in 1922.

Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Houghton Library, syr. 80

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Harvard University (Cambridge/MA) (United States of America), Syr 80
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: Pērā bar Bābāw bar 'Amrīḥās (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: Iran, Oroomiah
  • Date of creation: September 1898

Bibliography

  • Goshen-Gottstein, M. H. 1979. Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library. A Catalogue, Harvard Semitic Studies 23, Missoula/MT: Brill, 69.

Editor's statements

  • 39 pp.
  • East Syriac script
  • This manuscript is copied from the now lost cod. Urmiensis 270 (= S4)
  • Readings from the now-lost cod. Urmiensis 117 (= S5) were transmitted in the margins
  • Note on first page: THE SYRIAC TEXT OF THE LEGEND OF AḤIḲAR FROM A MS. IN THE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN MISSION AT OOROMIAH (cod. Urmiensis 270 = S4) with some readings from Cod. Urmiensis 117 (=S5)
  • Probably the former possessor of the manuscript and co-editor of the Syriac edition of this text, James Rendel Harris, has made remarks in the text by pencil (not transcribed for this edition).

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ms. syr. 434

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (France Paris), ms. syr. 434 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown; not before 1799, not after 1899

Bibliography

  • Briquel-Chatonnet, F. 1997. Manuscrits syriaque de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (nos 356 - 435, entrés depuis 1911), de la bibliothèque Méjanes d'Aix-en-Provence, de la bibliothèque muncipale de Lyon et de la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 178-183.

Editor's statements

  • 2 pp. (fol. 186v-187r)
  • East Syriac script
  • This manuscript was part of the collection of Graffin.

Alqosh, Notre-Dame des Semences, mss. syr. 611 (= Codex 205)

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bibliothèque Syro-Chaldéenne du couvent de Notre-Dame des Semences près d’Alqoš (Iraq) (Iraq), syr. 611
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: Stefan Raïs (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1883

Bibliography

  • Vosté, J.-M. 1929. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque syro-chaldéenne du Couvent de Notre-Dame des Semences près d'Alqosh (Iraq), Rome and Paris: Bureaux of the «angelicum», P. Geuthner, pp. 76-7.

Editor's statements

  • 44 pp. (fol. 1r-22v)
  • East Syriac script
  • First remark (fol. 22a): ܫܿܠܡܬ ܒܐܝܼܕ̈ܝ ܐܣܛܝܦܿܢ ܪܝܣ ܟܢܫܐ ܡܼܢ ܬܪ̈ܬܝܢ ܐܢܨܚ̈ܬܼܐ ܥܬܝܼܩ̈ܬܐ܆ ܏ܗ܆ ܫܢܬ ܐܦܦܓ ܒܕܝܪܐ ܆ ܠܡܪܢ ܒܝܼܪܚ ܢܝܼܣܢ ܂܂܂܂܂܂܂܂܂܂ ܩܫܝܫܐ ܐܪܡܝܐ This [manuscript] has been finished by Stefan Raïs; it has been collected from two older versions; In April 1883 AD in the monastery [gap] ... Priest Jeremiah
  • Second remark (fol. 22b=: ܐܬܢܣܒܼܬ ܡܼܢ ܬܪܝܢ ܢܘܣܟ̈ܐ܆ ܏ܗ܆ ܐܢܨ̈ܚܬܐ ܚܼܕܐ ܟܼܝܪ̈ܬ ܐܝܼܕ̈ܝ ܩܫܝܼܫܵܐ ܗܘܡܘ ܘܐܚܪܬܐ ܘܼܝܹܢ ܡܼܢ ܩܪܝܼܬܐ ܟܪܡܠܝܫ ܐܪܒܲܐܝܼܬܼ ܐܝܼܬܹܝܗܿ ܗ̄ܘܼܵܬܼ ܒܪܡ ܗܿܝ ܕܩܫܝܼܫܐ ܗܘܡܘ ܐܒܼܕܬ ܠܗܿ ܗܫܵܐ܆ ܘܐܚܪܬܐ ܦܝܼܝܫܐ ܒܟܪܡܠܸܝܫ ܩܪܝܼܬܼܵܐ ܘܩܪܝܬܐ ܒܟܪܡܠܝܫ ܐܒܕܬ ܠܗܿ [This copy] has been based on two manuscripts: one of them was the hand writing of Priest Hōmō and the other one was from the village of Karamlīš -- it was [written] in Arabic. However, I have lost yet that one of Priest Hōmō, but the other one remained in Karamlīš; I have lost it in Karamlīš.

Alqosh, Notre-Dame des Semences, mss. syr. 612 (= Codex 207)

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Bibliothèque Syro-Chaldéenne du couvent de Notre-Dame des Semences près d’Alqoš (Iraq) (Iraq), syr. 612
  • Language: Classical Syriac
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: 1883-1929

Bibliography

  • Vosté, J.-M. 1929. Catalogue de la Bibliothèque syro-chaldéenne du Couvent de Notre-Dame des Semences près d'Alqosh (Iraq), Rome and Paris: Bureaux of the «angelicum», P. Geuthner, p. 77.

Editor's statements

  • 71 pp. (fol. 1r-36r)
  • East Syriac script

Ms. Graffin

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  • Bibliographic Information: Nau, François. Documents relatifs à Aḥikar. Textes syriaques édités et traduits. (). Paris 1920. 14–71.
  • Responsible: Abbot Elias (scribe)
  • Responsible: Addai Scher [Chaldean Bishop of Seert] (sponsor)

History

  • Object type: printed edition
  • Origin: Paris
  • Date of creation: 1920

Bibliography

  • Nau, F. "Documents relatifs à Aḥikar. Textes syriaques édités et traduits", Revue de l’Orient chrétien 21 (1918/1919): 274–307 and 356-400.
  • Nau, F. 1920. Documents relatifs à Aḥikar. Textes syriaques édités et traduits. Extrait de la Revue de l’Orient chrétien T. XXI, Paris: Librairie Auguste Picard, 14–71.

Editor's statements

  • The manuscript is lost.
  • According to Nau, it consists of 56 pages.
  • The manuscript was written on behalf of Bishop Addai Scher by his nephew Elias (abbot of the monastery of Rabban Hormizd, near Mosul)
  • Nau's transcription, published in West Syriac script, likely reflects an East Syriac manuscript.

The Neo-Aramaic witnesses

Mlahso

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: * (*), *
  • Language: Neo-Aramaic (Mlaḥsô)
  • Responsible: Ibrahim Ḥanna (speaker)
  • Responsible: Shabo Talay (transliteration by)

History

  • Object type: oral testimony
  • Origin: Qamishli
  • Date of creation: 1993

Bibliography

  • Talay, S. 2006. Die Geschichte und die Sprüche des Aḥiqar im neuaramäischen Dialekt von Mlaḥsō. In W. Arnold, H. Bobzin (Eds.), „Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!“: 60 Beiträge zur Semitistik: Festschrift für Otto Jastrow zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 695-712.

Editor's statements

  • 5 pp.
  • West Syriac script
  • The wise sayings of Ahiqar are left out.

Baghdad, CPB 490

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Chaldean Catholic Church; Patriarchate of Baghdad (Iraq Baghdad), CPB 490 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Neo-Aramaic
  • Responsible: unknown (scribe)

History

  • Object type: Codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: unknown; not before 1901, not after 1999

Editor's statements

  • 16 pp.
  • East Syriac script
  • This manuscript is badly damaged by water damage. In addition, both the beginning and the end of the manuscript have been lost due to water damage.

BL Or. 9321

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: British Library (Great Britain), Or. 9321
  • Language: Neo-Aramaic (Sureth; East Syriac (dialect of Alqosh (Iraq))
  • Responsible: Ǧibra'īl Qūryaqūzā (scribe)

History

  • Object type: codex
  • Origin: unknown
  • Date of creation: ca. 1897

Bibliography

  • E. Braida, "The Romance of Ahiqar the Wise in the Neo-Aramaic MS London Sachau 9321", Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, vol. 14, pp. 17-31, 2014.
  • E. Braida, "The Romance of Ahiqar the Wise in the Neo-Aramaic MS London Sachau 9321: Part II", Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, vol. 15, pp. 41-50, 2015.
  • E. Braida, "Il Romanzo del saggio Ahiqar: una proposta stemmatica", in Camsemud 2007. Proceedings of the 13th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, Held in Udine, May 21st-24th, 2007, History of the Ancient Near East, Monographs, vol. 10, Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N., pp. 49-64, 2010.
  • Sachau, E. 1899. Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, 2 vols., Berlin: A. Asher & Co., 2:815.

Editor's statements

  • 59 pp. (fol. 1r-59r)
  • East Syriac script
  • The wise sayings of Ahiqar are left out.

Staatsbibliothek 339

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Manuscript Identifier

  • Identifier: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Germany), Sachau 339 (Digital Source)
  • Language: Neo-Aramaic (Turôyô)
  • Responsible: Isaiah of Qillit̲ (scribe)

History

  • Object type: Codex
  • Origin: Qillit̲
  • Date of creation: 1880-1899

Bibliography

  • Sachau, E. 1899. Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, 2 vols., Berlin: A. Asher & Co., 2:815.

Editor's statements

  • 59 pp. (fol. 1r-59r)
  • West Syriac script
  • The wise sayings of Ahiqar are left out.
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