Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina (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 .

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