Agnes Smith Lewis – Wikipedia

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Agnes Smith Lewis (* January 1843 in Irvine, Ayrshire, † March 1926 in Cambridge) and her twin sister Margaret Dunlop Gibson († January 1920 in Cambridge) were Scottish orientalists.

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When her father John Smith died, Agnes and Margaret Smith received an inheritance of two hundred thousand pounds, traveled to Greece, Palestine and Egypt in 1866. In addition to French and German, Latin and Greek, they learned Syrian, Arabic, Hebrew and Christian-Palestine-Aramaic. [first] With a letter of recommendation by James Rendel Harris, they visited the Katharinenkloster on Mountain Sinai in 1892, where they received access to the library and discovered an old Syrynic translation of the four Gospels, which they together with Robert L. Bensly, Francis C. Burkitt and J. Rendel Harris and their women were allowed to copy and photograph. [2]

On further trips you acquired valuable and unique manuscripts, including the main part of the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, [3] [4] [5] A martyrology of St. Sabbas from Sinai and his companions, [6] known as the “forty martyrs from Sinai”, [7] A Christian-Palestrian-Aramaic Lectar from the 11th century, [8] Earest Koran Palimpsest fragments, [9] Hebrew foil leaves of Jesus Sirach from the Cairo Geniza [ten] And many other manuscripts and books, including the Eberhard Nestle Library, which Agnes Smith Lewis largely acquired for the Westminster College of United Reformed Church in Cambridge. [first]

Agnes Smith Lewis received doctorate from the Universities of Halle (1899), St. Andrews (1901), Heidelberg (1904) and Trinity College Dublin (1911). Only the University of Cambridge, where the sisters lived and participated in scientific debates, refused to recognize scientific recognition. However, both were honored with the “Triennial Gold Medal” of the Royal Asiatic Society, “The Blue Riband of Oriental Research” in 1915. [first] [11]

  • Eastern Pilgrims. London 1870.
  • Effie Maxwell. London 1876.
  • Glenmavis. London 1879.
  • Catalogue of the Syriac Mss. in the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai (= Studia Sinaitica i) London 1894.
  • A Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinai Palimpsest. London 1894.
  • A Palestinian Syriac Lectionary. (= Study Sinaitica VI) London 1897.
  • A Story of Travel and Research from 1895 to 1897. Cambridge 1898.
  • Strag-insplophed give The Palestinian Syriac Lectionary of the Gospels. London 1899.
  • Strag-insplophed give Palestinian Syriac Texts from Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. London 1900.
  • Select Narratives of Holy Women. (= Study Sinaitic X) London 1900.
  • Standard Syrian: The Protevangel James and transition Mary. (= Study Sinaitic XI) London 1902.
  • Acta Mythologica. (= Hours 4) London 1904.
  • Codex climaci copy. (= Hours Semitic 8) London 1909.
  • The Old Syriac Gospels : or Evangelion Da-Mepharreshê. London 1910.
  • The Forty Martyrs of the Sinai Desert and the Story of Eulogios. (= Hours of Semocal 9) London 1912.

In the order of appearance

  • Margaret Dunlop Gibson: How the Codex Was Found in the Shadow of Sinai: A Narrative of Two Visits to Sinai from Mrs. Lewis’s Journals, 1892–1893. Cambridge 1893.
  • Alan Whigham Price: The Ladies of Castlebrae. The Life of Dr. Agnes Smith Lewis and Dr. Margaret Dunlop Gibson. (Annual Lecture to the Presbyterian Historical Society, October 1964; University of Durham). Durham 1964.
  • Alan Whigham Price: The Ladies of Castlebrae. London 1985, ISBN 0-86299-228-1.
  • Christa Müller-Kessler: Dunlop Gibson, née Smith (1843–1920) . In: Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography , Bd. 22. Oxford Press, Oxford 2004, S. 89–90. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55585
  • Christa Müller-Kessler: Lewis, Agnes Smith (1843–1926) . In: Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography , Bd. 33. Oxford Press, Oxford 2004, S. 579–580. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34510
  • Sebastian P. Brock: Agnes Lewis (1843–1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843–1920) . In: Predrag Bukovec (fair): Christian Orient in portrait – history of science of the Christian Orient (= Religions in the front Orient 2). Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8300-7812-8, pp. 267–280.
  1. ↑ a b c Christa Müller-Kessler, Lewis, Agnes Smith (1843–1926) . In: Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography , Bd. 33, Oxford 2004, S. 579–580.
  2. ↑ Margaret Dunlop Gibson: How the Codex was Found. A narrative of two visits to Sinai. Cambridge 1893, pp. 36–38 and 60–67.
  3. ↑ Agnes Smith Lewis: Codex Climaci Rescriptus: Fragments of the Sixth-Century Palestinian Syriac Texts of the Gospels, of the Acts of the Apostles, and of St Paul’s Epistles. London 1909.
  4. ↑ Ian A. Moir: Codex Climaci copy Grecus (Ms. Gregory 1561, 50). (= Texts and Studies NS, 2) (Cambridge 1956).
  5. ↑ https://sinai.library.ucla.edu
  6. ↑ Sabbas from Sinai and companions , accessed on January 9, 2023.
  7. ↑ Agnes Smith Lewis: The Forty Martyrs of the Sinai Desert and the Story of Eulogius from a Palestinian Syriac and Arabic Palimpsest. (= Hours of Semitic 9) (Cambridge 1912).
  8. ↑ Agnes Smith Lewis, Margaret Dunlop Gibson: Palestinian Syriac Lectionary containing Lessons from The Pentateuch, Job, Proverbs, Prophest, Acts, and Epistles. (= Study Sinaitica VI) (London 1897).
  9. ↑ Alain George: The Palimpsest Lewis-Mingana de Cambridge: old witness in the history of the Koran . In: Reports of sessions the academy of inscriptions and beautiful letters 2011, S. 377–429.
  10. ↑ Paul well: The Cairo Geniza: The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1941 . London 1947, pp. 6 and 40.
  11. ↑ Christa Müller-Kessler, Dunlop Gibson, née Smith (1843–1920) . In: Oxford Dictionary of the National Biography , Bd. 22, Oxford 2004, S. 89–90.

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