Huller's (Likely Unrecognized) Contribution to Marcionism
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:50 am
A year ago I sent out emails to every employee of the British Library telling them to apply new technology to the original efforts to read the palimpsest which contains Ephrem's Against Marcion. Today I got this email from Sebastian Brock:
Dear Stephan,
I learnt at the Patristic Conference here last week that a friend and a good Syriac scholar, Nils Pedersen from Denmark, along with a colleague, will be working on these new images, which from the samples they showed me should be very helpful. Nils recently published a very good and detailed study of the Manichaean Syriac fragments, a few of which are in the Bodleian.
with best wishes
sebastian
ORIGINAL EMAIL FROM BRITISH LIBRARY
Dear Mr. Huller
Thank you for your message, which has been forwarded to me for reply.
I have raised this matter with some of my curatorial and conservator colleagues. They have been pleased to inform me that multispectral imaging of the manuscript @ shelfmark Add. 14623 has been scheduled for early 2015. The aim will be then to test a selection of folios within it which present challenges as regards legibility. Once these results have been evaluated we will decide how to proceed.
Your interest and offer of assistance is appreciated and has been duly noted.
Sincerely,
Hedley Sutton
APAC Reference Services
Dear Stephan,
I learnt at the Patristic Conference here last week that a friend and a good Syriac scholar, Nils Pedersen from Denmark, along with a colleague, will be working on these new images, which from the samples they showed me should be very helpful. Nils recently published a very good and detailed study of the Manichaean Syriac fragments, a few of which are in the Bodleian.
with best wishes
sebastian
ORIGINAL EMAIL FROM BRITISH LIBRARY
Dear Mr. Huller
Thank you for your message, which has been forwarded to me for reply.
I have raised this matter with some of my curatorial and conservator colleagues. They have been pleased to inform me that multispectral imaging of the manuscript @ shelfmark Add. 14623 has been scheduled for early 2015. The aim will be then to test a selection of folios within it which present challenges as regards legibility. Once these results have been evaluated we will decide how to proceed.
Your interest and offer of assistance is appreciated and has been duly noted.
Sincerely,
Hedley Sutton
APAC Reference Services