Qubbat al-Chazna
Qubbat al-Chazna ( Arabic قبة الخزنة, DMG Qubbat al-Ḫazna , English Qubbat al-Khazna , German treasure house ) is a building in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus . It is an octagonal structure on eight Roman columns with a dome. It was built in 789 and may have originally contained the mosque's treasure. Or maybe they just kept tax receipts there.
Manuscripts
In later centuries manuscripts (fragments) in Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, Latin and Syrian languages were kept there. This collection was almost inaccessible to European scholars. After a visit by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1898, the collection was briefly made accessible for research. In 1900 and 1901 the German theologian Bruno Violet examined the manuscripts in Damascus for Christianity. In 1903, selected items were loaned to Berlin, first in the museum library, and since 1904 in the state library as a deposit. In the spring of 1909 they were sent back to Turkey, a series of texts photographed beforehand.
The total number has been estimated at up to 150,000. The further whereabouts are unclear. Most are said to have come to Istanbul , some possibly to the National Museum in Damascus.
literature
- Arianna D'Ottone, Manuscript as Mirror of a Multi-lingual and Multi-cultural Society. The case of the Damascus find , in: B. Crostini, S. La Porta (Eds.), Convivencia in Byzantium? Cultural Exchanges in a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Lingual Society , Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013, pp. 63–88. ( online )
- Cordula Bandt, Arndt Rattmann, Bruno Violet's trip to Damascus 1900/1901 for research into the Qubbet el-Chazne , in: Codices manuscripti & impressi , 76/77, 2011, pp. 1-20
- Kurt Treu, majuscule fragments of the Septuagint from Damascus , in: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Historical-philological class. 1966, 6, pp. 203-221
- Bruno Violet, Around the turn of the century in Damascus. A research trip , 1936
- Boris Liebrenz: The Rifāʽīya. A private library in Ottoman Syria and its cultural environment. Brill, 2016, p. 188
- Heinzgerd Brakmann: A Greek Jacobos liturgy from the Umayyad mosque in Damascus. On a depository of worship books from the Patriarchate of Antioch , In: Archives for Liturgy Science 55 (2013) 182–194.
Web links
- Syria. Damascus. Omayyad Mosque. The Dome of the Treasury
- Qubbat al-Haznah stocks on pinakes