Morceaux Choisis de Litterature Arameenne: Volume 1

An anthology of Syriac Literature collected and published by the learned bishop Mar Yaqub Awgin Manna (1867-1927), who was professor of Syriac in the Syro- Chaldean Seminary in Mosul between 1895 and 1902. Manna also published a well known Syriac grammar in Arabic and a Syriac-Arabic dictionary. Volume 1 of this anthology contains selections from the writings of Aphrahat, Aprim, Marutha of Maipherqat, Isaac of Antioch, Qirilona, Narsai, Jacob of Sarugh, Yukhannan of Amid and Ishoyabh of Hedayab.