04-22-2009, 06:55 AM
shlomo Samuel,
Here's a quick breakdown of the structure of what we call a "shoho" (Lesson):
?????? <= End of Book
.??.??. <= End of Lesson
.??.??.??. <= Beginning of Lesson 8
???? <= End of Subsection / End of a Paragraph like
?? <= End of Paragraph / End of a Sentence like
. <= End of Sentence / Line pause
.??.??. <= Notice that the ?? has its four dots; if you attach the dots on the left and the dot on the right together and hallow them out, then you get the infinity sign; now if you place the dot above and the dot below to the right and the left, but since you have adjoining dots on the left and the right, then you just use one dot to save on space you get the symbol in the manuscript.
.??.??.??. <= Here because they couldn't adjoin the dots to each other, because of the number 8 ??, we see the full set of dots.
In this example .??.??. the ?? has the two dots above and below, and that is because the Syriac Unicode doesn't have those symbols included (as we move more and more into print, unfortunately we will start seeing the disappearance of these types of art which are a trait of the Syriac language.)
There are other variation of the above signs that have the same meaning, and usually the above dot and below dot are in red.
Here's a listing that might prove interesting in relation to what some of the marks mean:
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I hope this helps!
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun
EEChO Wrote:For instance, let's take the Kabhouris codex. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dukhrana.com/khabouris/">http://www.dukhrana.com/khabouris/</a><!-- m -->
In Matthew page 24 : Matthiew 11,7 or Mathew 11,11
In front of the first verse there is an infinity sign with two red dots ; in front of the second verse there is twice this symbol and something written on the right in the margin.
That is what I am talking about.
In the transcription, they have been written by ~ in red.
If you open the Clarendon edition of the Peshitta you can see that they are also written.
Is there a study over these signs ?
They can not be only decorative symbol separating the text units.
Here's a quick breakdown of the structure of what we call a "shoho" (Lesson):
?????? <= End of Book
.??.??. <= End of Lesson
.??.??.??. <= Beginning of Lesson 8
???? <= End of Subsection / End of a Paragraph like
?? <= End of Paragraph / End of a Sentence like
. <= End of Sentence / Line pause
.??.??. <= Notice that the ?? has its four dots; if you attach the dots on the left and the dot on the right together and hallow them out, then you get the infinity sign; now if you place the dot above and the dot below to the right and the left, but since you have adjoining dots on the left and the right, then you just use one dot to save on space you get the symbol in the manuscript.
.??.??.??. <= Here because they couldn't adjoin the dots to each other, because of the number 8 ??, we see the full set of dots.
In this example .??.??. the ?? has the two dots above and below, and that is because the Syriac Unicode doesn't have those symbols included (as we move more and more into print, unfortunately we will start seeing the disappearance of these types of art which are a trait of the Syriac language.)
There are other variation of the above signs that have the same meaning, and usually the above dot and below dot are in red.
Here's a listing that might prove interesting in relation to what some of the marks mean:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0700.pdf">http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0700.pdf</a><!-- m -->
I hope this helps!
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun
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