THE CHRONICLE OF EDESSA.
This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK SOME of the early Christian writers refer in very eulogistic terms to the archives of Edessa. The archives were, of course, the public or royal library of the city, the existence and value of which cannot be called in question. It included both Greek and Oriental books, and was therefore a depository from which literary men could largely benefit. Moses of Chorene consulted the books while compiling his history of Armenia. Eusebius of Caesarea declares himself to have been indebted to this library for his account of the conversion of...
Read MoreDescription of the Astrolabe, – Severus Sebokht
This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK Severus Sebokht, Description of the Astrolabe, in R.T.Gunther, Astrolabes of the World, Oxford (1932) •Introduction •Part 2 – Use of the Astrolabe ◦1. To find during the day, with the help of the astrolabe, the solar hour; then to find for this hour the degree (of the zodiac) that is in the ascendant, which star rises and sets, is in the descendant, which is in the middle of the heaven (at the meridian) and which is beneath the earth. ◦2. To find the hour during the night from the stars. ◦3. To find the hour during the...
Read MoreAN ORATION OF MELITON THE PHILOSOPHER;
This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich Spicilegium Syriacum (1855) : Ps.-Melito of Sardis: Apology WHO WAS IN THE PRESENCE 1 OF ANTONINUS CAESAR, AND BADE THE SAME CAESAR KNOW GOD, AND SHEWED HIM THE WAY OF TRUTH; AND HE BEGAN SPEAKING AFTER THIS MANNER: MELITO saith: It is not an easy matter 2 readily to bring into the right way that man who has been a long time pre-occupied by error.3 But nevertheless it is possible to be done; for when a man has been turned from error a little, the mention of the truth is acceptable to him; for in the same manner as, when the cloud has...
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