CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Petrosyan, Ester |
|---|---|
| Title | Ms cairo syriac 11: a tri-lingual garshuni manuscript |
| Summary | This thesis deals with MS Cairo Syriac 11, a seventeenth century tri-lingual (Syriac-Arabic-Armenian) manuscript dictionary. The manuscript was written by a scribe from the Mesopotamian city of Gargar and contains the Syriac-Arabic dictionary of Eliyah of Nisibis (975-1046), supplemented with a third column, containing the Armenian equivalent of the words. In the dictionary both the Arabic and the Armenian words are written in Syriac characters. The manuscript has potential to prove a unique source for many interdisciplinary studies, such as Armenian and Arabic Garshuni studies, Syro-Armenian lexicography, Armenian dialectology, Syro-Armenian intercultural historical studies and relations. I study the manuscript both from linguistic and historical perspectives. From the linguistic angle, my work aims at reconstructing the principles of transcription of the Armenian words used in the manuscript as well as at reconstructing the Armenian dialect whose vocabulary the manuscript records. From the historical angle, I attempt to reconstruct the context, in which Armenian and Arabic were recorded in Syriac script instead of their natural alphabets. The methodology I intend to use is multi-faceted, including the palaeographic, codicological, and philological analyses of the source, as well as comparative textual criticism. |
| Supervisor | István Perczel |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/petrosyan_ester.pdf |
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