Il corpus siriaco delle lettere di Timoteo I, Cattolico della chiesa siroorientale tra il 780 e l'823, nonostante la sua riconosciuta importanza documentaria, non può vantare a tutt'oggi un'edizione critica completa, né un ventaglio di studi soddisfacente. 1 Questa raccolta epistolare tuttavia, va ricordato, è un documento di eccezionale importanza, nodale per ricostruire le sorti del cristianesimo siro-orientale nella prima età abbaside in tutti i suoi aspetti storici, teologici, pastorali, oltre che per il quadro che fornisce delle relazioni cristiano-islamiche al cuore di una congiuntura storica e di un contesto geograÀ co e culturale-l'Iraq degli ultimi decenni dell'VIII secolo-decisivi per la storia delle civiltà. Se le vicende biograÀ che di Timoteo precedenti e successive alla sua ascesa al patriarcato, nel 780, ci sono note complessivamente a partire
Through some focused insights, I hope to make a small contribution to the contextual background of the Sogdian ascetic miscellany E28 of the Turfan Collection, a set of paper sheets and fragments recovered from the Bulayïq monastery during the second and third German expedition to Turfan led by Von Le Coq in 1904-1905 and 1905-1907. The text was recently published by Nicolas Sims-Williams with an English translation.1 Here, I shall offer a tentative analysis of its composition criteria and what we can infer from the Syriac tradition of each text included in the collection.First, we must take as a starting point the philological and codicological reconstruction provided by Sims-Williams. He states that the entire E28 might be ascribed to the hand of one single copyist, but that, at the same time, this material should possibly be subdivided into three separate groups belonging to three different manuscripts originating from the same scriptorium. I shall assume this to be so. The group of texts already identified belongs to a single manuscript whose folio measures are "28-29.5×19-21cm, with a written area of 24.5-26.5 × 16-18cm".2 We should ascribe folios 1 to 10 of E28 to this manuscript, with the possible addition of folios 11-13. This manuscript certainly included the following texts: a) An excerpt from the logos xxvi, 10 of the Asceticon of Abba Isaiah b) Selected sayings of Simon of Taibuteh c) Excerpts from the first and second part of the Homilies of Isaac of Nineveh
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