Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands
A Representative of 'aǧā'ib Literature in Syriac
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Word Count
50,500 words, Guess
Page Count
202 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL35999133M
- ISBN-139781800640320
- OCLC Control Number1237750547
- OCLC Control Number0da2c7cb-2109-4f29-bb6c-5a6d5902dd73
- Library of Congress Control Number2020447273
Classifications
- LCCPJ5693.E5
Description
This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East Syrian Christian author during the late medieval or early modern period, this work offers a loosely organized catalogue of marvellous events, phenomena, and objects, natural as well as human-made, found throughout the world. The Marvels is a unique composition in that it bears witness to the creative adoption by Syriac Christians of the paradoxogr.
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