The Christian Sogdian Manuscript C2
By: [translated and with commentary by] Nicholas Sims-Williams.
Contributors: Sims-Williams, Nicholas.; Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR.; Museum für Indische Kunst (Germany)
Series: Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des alten Orients.; 12
Publisher: Akademie-Verlag
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng; sog
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Christian Sogdian MS C2.; Christian literature, Sogdian.; Sermons, Sogdian.; Manuscripts, Sogdian -- Germany -- Facsimiles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English and Sogdian.
"Surviving fragments of the MS C2 are at present in the custody of the Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR (Berlin) and the Museum für Indische Kunst (Berlin/West)"--Pref.
Rev. ed. of: Sims-Williams' thesis (doctoral--University of Cambridge, 1978)
Table of contents: label: abbreviations
title: abbreviations
pagenum: 9; label: introduction
title: introduction
pagenum: 13; label: concordance
title: concordance
pagenum: 22; label: chapter 1
title: text 1, the story of Pethion
pagenum: 31; label: chapter 2
title: text 2, an unidentified homily on the solitary life
pagenum: 69; label: chapter 3
title: text 3, Dadisho Qatraya's commentary on the fifteenth homily of Abba Isaiah
pagenum: 78; label: chapter 4
title: text 4, a metrical homily on the final evil hour by Mar Babay the Less
pagenum: 87; label: chapter 5
title: text 5, the apostolic canons
pagenum: 101; label: chapter 6
title: text 6, a commentary on the baptismal and eucharistic liturgies
pagenum: 110; label: chapter 7
title: text 7, an unidentified homily on the mercy of God
pagenum: 121; label: chapter 8
title: text 8, from the verba seniorum
pagenum: 124; label: chapter 9
title: text 9, the Persian martyrs under Sapur II
pagenum: 137; label: chapter 10
title: text 10, the Sleepers of Ephesus
pagenum: 154; label: chapter 11
title: text 11, the story of Eustathius
pagenum: 158; label: chapter 12
title: text 12, on humility
pagenum: 165; label: chapter 13
title: text 13, the Antirrheticus of Evagrius Ponticus
pagenum: 168; label: chapter 14
title: text 14, incipit of the story of Pethion
pagenum: 185; label: chapter 15
title: unplaced fragments
pagenum: 186; label: analysis
title: morphological analysis of C2
pagenum: 191; label: glossary
title: glossary
pagenum: 201; label: indexes
title: indexes
pagenum: 240; label: plates
title: plates
pagenum: 251