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Medieval Book Facsimile and Manuscript Studies Guide: Syriac Introductory Bibliography

Introductory Bibliography for Syriac Manuscripts

Butts, Aaron Michael. “Manuscript Transmission as Reception History: The Case of Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373),” Journal of Early Christian Studies, 25/2 (Summer 2017) pp. 281-306

Mango, Marlia Mundel. "Patrons and Scribes Indicated in Syriac Manuscripts", Jahrb.Byz.Ost.Ges. 32/4 (1982), pp. 3–1.

-------"The Production of Syriac Manuscripts 400–700 AD," Scritture, Libri, et Tesi nelle aree provinciali di Bisanzio, eds. G. Cavallo and M. Maniaci (Spoleto, 1992), 161–79

Penn, Michael P. “Moving Beyond the Palimpsest: Erasure in Syriac Manuscripts,” JECS, 18 (2010), 261–303

-------“Monks, Manuscripts, and Muslims: Syriac Textual Changes in Reaction to the Rise of Islam,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, 12 (2009), 235–257

S.P. Brock, A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature (Baker Hill: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 1997)

-------"The Art of the Scribe", The Hidden Pearl, II: The Heirs of the Ancient Aramaic Heritage (Rome: TransWorld Film, 2001), 243–262

van Ginkel, J.J. ‘Early dated manuscripts of the Church of the East, 7th-13th cent.’, JAAS 21.2 (2007), 8-34