2003/12/01 by Heike Behlmer · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #African history and culture analysis #Archaeology #Art #Art history #Classics #German #Historical and Linguistic Studies #History #Linguistics #Literature #Loan #Medieval and Classical Philosophy #Order (exchange) #Orientalism #Philosophy #Possession (linguistics)
paper · doi:10.1177/030751330308900113
openalex publication_date 2003/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/01
The Coptic collection of Robert Curzon, fourteenth Baron Zouche (1810-73), now in the British Library, contains two manuscripts loaned to and published by the gifted but controversial German orientalist Paul de Lagarde (1827-91): fragments of a Sahidic psalter and an exegetical catena to the Gospels in Bohairic. Lagarde's papers, today in the possession of the University of Gottingen, where he taught oriental languages from 1869-91, throw fresh light on the history of this loan. His correspondence not only forces us to revise the chronology of the publication process, it also lays open how a German professor of limited financial means would resort to half-truths and stratagems in order to persuade a British nobleman to send his valuable Coptic manuscripts out of the country.