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Signs on manuscripts (dots, letters, stars...)
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Hello to all,

Has anyone made a work over the signs we can find in the syriac manuscripts. For example we find very often one dot or sometime two (they look like the infinity symbol in that case). At first sight it looks like decorative symbols, like drawn pearls, but it seems there is a meaning behind it.

Some believe it's some reading markings for the weeks, like a lectionnary, and in this case, some letters are added by the copist in order to indicate the date of the reading. But why can we find sometime one dot, sometime two ?

Do you know if there is some studies over this subject ?

For instance, does someone has compared those marks and tried to see if they are more present in old manuscripts or less present ; and if they are put at the same place ?

I've learned recently about the Eusebian Tables (or canons) that we can find in occidental manuscripts. He made this to compare the 4 gospels, and I know that this had a great success, so later on even some syriac manuscripts adopted these tables. But, for example, the stars or double stars we can find in the Tetraeuangelium Sanctum: Juxta Simplicem Syrorum Versionem Ad Fidem Codicum, Massorae, Editionum Pusey (or Clarendon edition) does not fit at all with the eusebian tables.

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Thanks for your help !

Samuel L. writing from France
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Signs on manuscripts (dots, letters, stars...) - by EEChO - 04-19-2009, 07:08 PM

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