On the Council of Nicaea

Maruthas of Martyropolis (d. 420)

I NTRODUCTORY NOTE .

In a recent Hugoye (http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol9No2/HV9N2Depuydt.html) there was a list of Syriac Mss at Yale. I noticed this item in it:

8. Maruta of Maiperqat, On the Council of Nicaea

Rn/M36. — A paper booklet consisting of two quires (Clemons, "Checklist," No. 241). The hand is the same as No. 12. Contents: Maruta of Maiperqat, On the Council of Nicaea. Baumstark, Geschichte, 53,27-54,10. One quire contains the text, the other a handwritten English translation.

Now unpublished English translations are something which I think should appear online, where they can promote interest among the general public.

So I wrote to Yale and found that this was just a modern booklet of some 14 pages. I did ask them if they could just run a digital camera over it -- it wouldn't take long to press a shutter 28 times, after all -- but they've been saddled with a rogue supplier of reproductions and wanted $216 (!) to do this. However they did kindly supply me with a rather terrible printoff from a microfilm, albeit very slowly.

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