Shemʿun Quqoyo
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
availability: Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Distributed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Shemʿun Quqoyo

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Shemun-Quqoyo http://syriaca.org/bibl/515 506 Simeon the Potter http://syriaca.org/person/37 [person] [Author of nine short poems on the Nativity.]

Simeon the Potter (5th/6th cent.) [Syr. Orth.].

Author of nine short poems on the Nativity. When Yaʿqub of Serugh came across him working as a potter (quqoyo) in Geshir, a village in north Syria, he soon recognized his poetic talents. Imitations of his poems gave rise to a specific genre of poems, designated ‘quqoye’.

Sources

S. P. Brock, Bride of Light. Hymns on Mary from the Syriac Churches (Moran Etho 6; 1994), 102–8. (ET)
S. Euringer, in OC II.3 (1913), 221–35. (Syr. with GT)

Sebastian P. Brock