Morceaux Choisis de Litterature Arameenne: Volume 2

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 2 of this anthology contains selections from the writings of Isaac of Nineveh, Jacob of Edessa, Patriarch Timothy I, Thomas of Marga, Khunayn Ibn Iskhaq, Anton Rhetor, Elia of Anbar, Emmanuel Bar Shahare, Philoxenus of Mabbugh, Patriarch Elia III, Gewargis Warda, Khamis Bar Qardahe, Yukhannan Bar Madani, Bar Hebraeus, and Mar Audisho of Nisibis.