Eastern Christians and their written heritage
Subtitle: manuscripts, scribes and context
By: edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Herman Teule & Sofía Torallas Tovar
Contributors: Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro, editor; Teule, Herman G. B., editor; Torallas Tovar, Sofía, editor
Series: Eastern Christian studies -- volume 14; Eastern Christian studies -- v. 14.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leuven, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789042925175
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Eastern churches; History; Schrifttum; Handskrifter; Oriental Orthodox churches; Textgeschichte; Archives; Sources; Congresses; Schriftdenkmal; Ostkirche; Manuscripts; Östkyrkan; Konferenser
Description: "This volume gives the text of the contributions presented at the Second International Congress on Eastern Christianity organised in Madrid in April 2008. The focus of the conference was on the written heritage ("manuscripts, scribes and contexts") of Eastern Christians in different periods and from different confessional backgrounds, but it was thought appropriate to include some contributions on the Jewish written heritage as well. Part I of the volume is devoted to manuscript collections and archives in Spain, Portugal, Alexandria and St Petersburg. Part II deals with Christian Arabic, Coptic, Greek and Slavonic manuscripts written by members of different religious communities. Part III discusses a variety of contextual issues such as the Egyptian monastic environment (book binding and manuscript illumination, women readers), schools (school texts on papyri) and Christian sources in Ibn Ğiqaṭela's psalm commentary."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributions in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Hebrew collections in Spain : catalogues and inventories  -- María Teresa Ortega Monasterio; title: The archive of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria : new findings  -- Johannes Pahlitzsch; title: Christian Arabic and Oriental manuscripts in Portugal and the contribution of Arab Christians to the beginning of Oriental studies (shift from 18th to 19th century)  -- Adel Y. Sidarus, -- Eva-Maria von Kemnitz; title: The Mikhail Sado collection of Syriac manuscripts in St. Petersburg  -- Herman G.B. Teule, -- Grigory Kessel; title: Marginalia arabica dans les codices chenoutiens du monastère Blanc : inventaire et premier essai d'interprétation  -- Jean-Louis Fort; title: A membrum disjectum or the reconstruction of a lost bifolio : St. Petersburg 'grec 290' from BnF 'Suppl. gr. 911' : edition and commentary  -- Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, -- Ángel Urbán; title: A letter from the Patriarch Benjamin II to the monks of Saint Macarius  -- Youhanna Nessim Youssef; title: An Arabic manuscript of the decree of the union with the Copts at the Council of Florence  -- Harald Suermann; title: Dating in Slavonic : birch-bark letters and watermarks  -- Susana Torres Prieto; title: Christianity at school : early Christian schooltexts on papyri  -- Alberto Nodar; title: Women reading books in Egyptian monastic circles  -- María Jesús Albarrán Martínez; title: Bookbinding and manuscript illumination in late antique and early medieval monastic circles in Egypt  -- Chrysi Kotsifou; title: Allusions to Christian sources in a manuscript of Ibn Ğiqaṭela's commentary on Psalms -- José Martínez Delgado.