Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium

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The Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (abbr. CSCO ) is a multilingual collection of literary texts from the Christian Orient .

history

The book series was founded in 1903 by the Catholic French orientalist Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1860–1948) with the aim of disseminating the texts of the Eastern Fathers of the Church ; in collaboration with four other orientalists: Bernard Carra de Vaux (from the Institut Catholique de Paris ), Louis Cheikhô (from the University of Saint Joseph in Beirut ), Ignazio Guidi ( La Sapienza University in Rome ) and Henry Hyvernat ( Catholic University of America (CUA ) in Washington, DC , USA). Each original text was accompanied by a more modern translation. The first books were published by the Éditions Poussielgue, later by the Otto Harrassowitz publishing house in Leipzig . Today the books are published by Peeters Verlag in Leuven.

Since 1912 the publication of the books has been entrusted to the Catholic University of Leuven / Louvain / Leuven (Belgium) and the Catholic University of America (CUA) on the advice of Henry Hyvernat . The current chief editor is Andrea Schmidt at the Francqui chair at the Université catholique de Louvain ( Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium ).

Over 650 volumes have been published since it was founded, all of which are still in regular trade. One of their important features is that, with few exceptions, these publications contain a critical edition of the original texts in one volume and the translation in a second volume.

Breakdown

In the entire corpus, most of the volumes have Syrian authors; others are published in the languages Old Ethiopian , Arabic , Old Ethiopian , Coptic and Georgian . There are also more than a hundred monographs among them.

The series is divided into:

List of published volumes

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Among other things, author of a work on Syrian literature ( Littérature syriaque 1935, online ), published in the Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses .
  2. ↑ German lions ; ndl. Leuven , French Louvain .

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