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Or 9326

Record Id:

032-003450879

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032-003450879

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Reference (shelfmark):

Or 9326

Title:

Letters and Other Neo-Aramaic Documents Sent to Eduard Sachau

Scope & Content:

A collection of correspondence and notes made in various languages in Northern Iraq, including the following contents.

f. 1: First 11 stanzas of a durıktā by Thomas Tektek Sinjar with the Arabic translation in the left column.

f. 2: Arabic texts with Neo-Aramaic translation in the left column.

f. 3: A Neo-Aramaic letter from Jeremiah Shamer to Eduard Sachau (2 March 1896).

ff. 4-5: Arabic texts with Neo-Aramaic translations in the left column.

f. 6r: The first 9 stanzas of a durıktā by Damyanos of Alqosh.

f. 6v: Neo-Aramaic sayings on paper from the Seminar für Orientalische Sprache, Berlin, in the 1890s.

ff. 7-8: Letters in Arabic from Jeremiah Shamir, with information about Syriac manuscripts.

f. 9: Classical Syriac text with a seal of the Patriarch's residence.

ff. 10-11: Letter in Arabic from Jeremiah Shamir to Eduard Sachau, written on 28 February 1896 in Mosul.

f. 12: A list of Syriac manuscripts(?)

f. 13: Classical Syriac liturgical texts or prayers.

ff. 14-24: Letters in either Arabic or Neo-Aramaic from Jeremiah Shamir to Eduard Shamir.

f. 25: Letter in English from Jeremiah Shamir to Eduard Sachau requesting money to pay "the scribes", on 25 March 1897.

ff. 26-45: Letters in Neo-Aramaic and/or Arabic from Jeremiah Shamir or Yoḥnan Zu'bi to Eduard Sachau.

ff. 46-49: Letter in Italian from Samuel Jamil to Eduard Sachau dated "Monastero de Madonna 22 ott. 1882", asking for money and providing information about other Neo-Aramaic texts: "quanto poi alla sua domanda di mandare alcune narrazioni in dialetto di gêlû e di Tiyârî presentemente non ci erano uomini che conoscano questo dialetto."

ff. 50-51: Letter with several Neo-Aramaic verses and their Arabic translations.

ff. 52-53 Letter in Italian from Samuel Jamil to Eduard Sachau, from the Monastery of St. George in Mosul on 14 September 1881.

ff. 54-60: Other letters and documents in Arabic and Neo-Aramaic.

ff. 61-64: Classical Syriac tash’īṯē written in serṭo.

ff. 65-73: Letters in Neo-Aramaic from Urmia from 1865.

ff. 74-89: Letters and other documents sent by Jeremiah Shamir in the years 1883 onward.

ff. 79-85: A list of Neo-Aramaic words.

ff.86-89: Two letters in English to the deacon of Uramya/Ereimya (who might possibly have been Jeremiah Shamir) from R. Wahl and F. Gatro (?).

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 codex, 89 ff.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
English
Italian
Syriac

Scripts:

Arabic
Latin
Syriac

Start Date:

1800

End Date:

1899

Date Range:

19th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper

Dimensions: Varied

Script: Various, including cursive Latin, riq'a, naskh, serto and madhnhaya.

Ink: Primarily black ink.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Finding Aids:

Catalogue record based largely on: A. Mengozzi, "The Neo-Aramaic Manuscripts of the British Library: Notes on the Study of Durıkyātā as a Neo-Syriac Genre", in Le Muséon, vol. 112, issue 3-4. Pp. 459-494.

Exhibitions:

Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, 26 April 2019 - 27 August 2019

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Lake Urmia , Asia , Iran
Mosul Vilayet, Middle East, Asia

Related Material:

For more poems by the author of f. 1, please see Or. 9322, f.4.

For more poetry by the author of f. 6r, please see Or. 9322, f.9.