Peter of Matush - ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ
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Peter of Matush (known in print as Petrus Metoscita) was a cleric and scholar of Arabic in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries C.E. Born to a Maronite family in
Cyprus,
he studied at the Maronite College in
Rome
where he later taught and became a Jesuit. He is the author of an Arabic grammar
Institutiones linguae arabicae
[http://syriaca.org/cbss/MGNRR2V4]
.1, 2, 3
Names
- ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ
- Peter of Matush
- Peter al-Matushi
- Buṭrus al-Maṭūši1
- Buṭrus al-Maṭūši1
- Peṭros of Maṭush
- Petrus Metoscita2
- Pietro Metoscita3
Birth
1569
Cyprus
Death
1625
Rome
Notes
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Macuch, Geschichte der spät- und neusyrischen Literaturp: 51., p: 51.
- 2 Institutiones linguae arabicae, ex diversis Arabum monumentis collectae, et ad quam maximam fieri potuit brevitatem, atque ordinem revocatae. Quibus addita est exercitatio grammatica in Psalmum XXXIV.
- 3 Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) , p: 196.
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ܕܡܛܘܫ
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David A. Michelson et al., “Peter of Matush — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1072.About this Entry
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Additional Credit:
- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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