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Document Details : Title: Père Anastase-Marie de Saint Élie and the Western Study of Mandaic Subtitle: Between Oriental Studies, Text History and Philology Author(s): MORGENSTERN, Matthew Journal: Orientalia Volume: 93 Issue: 2 Date: 2024 Pages: 402-434 DOI: 10.2143/ORI.93.2.3294781 Abstract : This article examines Père Anastase-Marie de St. Élie’s contribution to Mandaean studies, focusing on the Mandaean manuscripts he sold to Western collections and those from his collection cited in the scholarly works of Lady Ethel Stefana Drower. It is demonstrated that at the start of the 20th century, Père Anastase played a pivotal role in supplying Mandaic manuscripts to Western collections, including those in the Bibliothèque nationale de France — published by Jacques de Morgan — and others now held by the British Library, the Berlin Staatsbibliothek, and the Bodleian Library. It is also shown that Anastase frequently had Mandaic texts copied as 'duplicates' for his collection and that, in several cases, Lady Drower relied on these duplicates from his collection in Baghdad rather than the original manuscripts, which had been sold to libraries abroad and remain available to us to this day. These originals are more accurate than the copies that Drower cited. |
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