Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Ishaya-of-Beth-Sbirina http://syriaca.org/bibl/288 279 http://syriaca.org/person/259 [person] [Priest, son of Denḥo, and author of two poems on the ravages of Tamerlane in Ṭur ʿAbdin (one, ed. Knos, also in Qolo Suryoyo 73 [1990], 116-22; the other, ed. Cardahi).]

(d. 1425) [Syr. Orth.]

Priest, son of Denḥo, and author of two poems on the ravages of Tamerlane in Ṭur ʿAbdin (one, ed. Knös, also in Qolo Suryoyo 73 [1990], 116–22; the other, ed. Cardahi). He also arranged a separate marriage rite for widows and widowers, with a short preface (ms. Cambridge Add. 1987). He left reader’s notes in two mss. in the British Library (Wright, Catalogue, 880, 899), as did his disciple Yuḥanon while at Dayr al-Suryān (Wright, Catalogue, 851). His son Ishoʿ (d. 1492) was the composer of 40 sedre.

Sources

Barsoum, Scattered pearls, 495–6.
G. Cardahi, Liber thesauri de arte poetica Syrorum (1875), 114–8.
G. Knös, Chrestomathia Syriaca (1807), 106–19 .

Sebastian P. Brock