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TM 115232 / LDAB 115232 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/115232

also known as Rabbula Gospels; Rabbulas Codex; Rabula Gospels

previously also TM 117952 (double)

TM Gallery info The Rabbula Gospels (TM 115232), named after the otherwise unknown scribe who copied the manuscript and added the colophon in AD 586, is a Syriac (Peshitta) Bible. It is especially know for its miniatures, some of which, however, may have different origins and were bound with the current volume at a later stage. The text itself is a tetraevangelion, a synoptic version of the four canonical gospels, here arranged in four arcades to bring out similarities and differences. The manuscript was in Lebanon until the late 15th or early 16th century, when it was transferred by the Maronite patriarch to Florence, where it still is preserved in the Biblioteca Laurenziana.

Metadata

Date: AD 586

Provenance: Beth Zagba - Syria (SyriaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - SyriaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Syriac, drawing (paleography: estrangela)

Material: parchment

Book form: codex (292 fol.); columns per page: 2; highest page number: 292; number of lines per page: 18, 19, 20

Content (beta!): literary text, New Testament (Peshitta): Marcus, Mattheus, Lucas, Johannes evang.: gospels

Authors / works: Testamentum novum, Marcus (Peshitta), Evangelium secundum Marcum: opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Matthaeus (Peshitta), Evangelium secundum Matthaeum: opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Lucas (Peshitta), Evangelium secundum Lucam: opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Iohannes (Peshitta), Evangelium secundum Iohannem: opus completum (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, bible, gospel (religion: christian)

Note: with drawings

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, otherother [2]

Publications

Cecchelli / Furlani / Salmi, The Rabbula Gospels. Evangeliarii Syriaci, vulgo Rabbulae, in Bibliotheca Medicea-Laurentiana (Plut. I, 56) adservati ornamenta edenda notisque instruenda (Cecchelli, C. / Furlani, Giuseppe / Salmi, Mario - 1959; facsimile edition)
&Nordenfalk, Die spätantiken Kanontafeln pl. 129-148 [Eusebius] (Nordenfalk, Carl A. J. - 1938) Please subscribe to follow this link [default]

∙Leroy, Les manuscrits syriaques à peinture p. 139-197 no. 1 (Leroy, Jules - 1964)

∙Tetraeuangelium sanctum iuxta simplicem Syrorum versionem p. x [codex 26] (Pusey, Philipp E. / Gwilliam, G. H. - 1901)

Photo: Cecchelli / Furlani / Salmi, The Rabbula gospels, Olten-Lausanne 1959 (facsimile edition); H.P. Hatch, Monumenta Paleographica Vetera II: An album of dated Syriac Manuscripts, pl. 34; Leroy, Les manuscrits syriaques à peinture, pl. 20-34; K. Weitzmann, Late antique and early christian book illumination, London 1977, pl. 34-38 (colour); d’Aiuto / Morello / Piazzoni, I vangeli dei popoli, Bibl. Apost. Vat. 2000, p. 1146-151 [colour]; Brown, In the beginning. Bibles before the year 1000, 2006, p. 224-225 [colour]; Nordenfalk, die spätantiken Kanontafeln, p. 129-148

Content studies: M. Bernabo (ed.), Il tetravangelo di Rabbula, Firenze Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Rome 2008

Script & book studies: scribe Rabbula; Francesco d’Aiuto, Giovanni Morello, Ambrogio Piazzoni, I vangeli dei popoli, Bibl. Apost. Vat. 2000, p. 145-153 no. 10(G. Lenzi); M.P. Brown, In the beginning. Bibles before the year 1000, 2006, p. 300 no. 62; M. Bernabo, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 68 (2014), p.343-358 (on the composition of the codex in different phases)

Collections

→ Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. I 56 (Rabbulas codex)

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