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The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to announce the next SIMS Online Lecture:
* The Rescue of Armenian Historiography and the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
Tara L. Andrews, University of Vienna
Friday, December 17, 2021, 12:00 -1:30pm EST (via Zoom)
Of the thirty-five manuscripts that remain of the 12th-century Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, not a single one dates from before 1590, but over half of them were produced by 1700. This pattern of survival reflects a wider reality for Armenian literature, where the ravages of war and persecution, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, gave way to a period of relative peace in the 17th century that provided an opportunity for a conscious "rescue" of the Armenian literary heritage, especially (but not exclusively) centered around the Amrdolu monastery of Bitlis, near Lake Van. In this talk I will present some of the features and puzzles of the manuscript tradition of the Chronicle that speak to this restoration, and at the same time give us glimpses into the history of the developing Armenian diaspora. Click here for more information and the link to registrationhttps://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/rescue-armenian-historiography-and-chronicle-matthew-edessa.
For links to video recordings of previous lectures, including last month's lecture "Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History, presented by Alexandra Gillespie and Susan Conklin Akbari (October 17), visit the SIMS Online Lecture Series websitehttps://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/schoenberg-institute-manuscript-studies-online-lecture-series.
There will be no Online Lecture in November, but don't forget to register for the 14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, on the topic "Loss," to be held online November 17-19, 2021. Visit the symposium websitehttps://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs_symposium14 for more information and a link to registration.
****************** Lynn Ransom, Ph.D. Curator of Programs, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studieshttps://schoenberginstitute.org/ Project Director, The Schoenberg Database of Manuscriptshttps://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/ Co-Editor, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studieshttps://mss.pennpress.org/home/ President and Executive Director (2021-2024), Digital Scriptoriumhttps://digital-scriptorium.org/ The University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215.898.7851