Description | Articles and letters relating to James Rendel Harris's research on the Acts of Thomas. All letters are written to James Rendel Harris, unless otherwise stated: /1 Press cutting from the Expository Times of a review by Agnes Smith Lewis [orientalist, biblical scholar, and traveller] of 'The Discouri in Christian Literature', by James Rendel Harris, 1903; /2 Note in Syriac, nd; /3-/5 Research notes made by James Rendel Harris, nd; /6-/7 Letters from Agnes Smith Lewis, 1912; /8 Letter from Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare [scholar, expert on Armenia], 1912; /9 Notes by Francis Crawford Burkitt [Professor of Divinity, Cambridge] of references to articles discussing the Acts of Thomas, 1913; /10 Note in Syriac, nd; /11-/20 Various handwritten notes by James Rendel Harris relating to the Acts of Thomas: noting references; comparing various versions of the Acts of Thomas in Greek and Syriac, nd; /21 Letter from H v ?Farn, German, 1913; /22 Letter to ?Wilky from CW Mitchell [Sion College, London], 1913; /24-/25 Notes by James Rendel Harris labelled 'Armenia of Conybeare collated with Syriac and Greek', nd; /26 Letter from Eberhard Nestle [Semitic scholar, Professor and Headmaster at Wurtemberg, Germany], 1912; /27-/28 Various notes by James Rendel Harris, nd; /29 Article from the Journal of Theological Studies by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare [Armenian scholar] entitled 'The Idea of Sleep in the Hymn of the Soul', nd; /30 Note made by James Rendel Harris relating to myths about dragons who suck out their own poison, nd; /31 Letter from Francis Crawford Burkitt, 1912; /32 Postcard from [signature illegible], 1912; /33-/35 Notes made by James Rendel Harris of quotations from texts relating to the Acts of Thomas, Latin, Greek, French, nd; /36 Article from 'Bibliographische Anzeigen', German, nd; /37 Note made by James Rendel Harris discussing the names of the Magi in various Syriac manuscripts, nd; /38 Letter from Lootfy Levonian [Armenian Woodbrooke student; Professor, School of Religion, Constantinople], 1912; /39-/41 Various notes made by James Rendel Harris: /39 discusses possible meanings of the word Sanadruck in the Acts of Thomas, nd; /40 headed 'Double translations in Acta Thomas', nd; /41 concerning Edessan tradition that Jesus promised to send Thomas to Abgar, nd; /42 Letter from Lootfy Levonian, 1913; /43 Note made by James Rendel Harris concerning Addai, nd; /44 Letter from Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, 1912; /45-/47 Various notes made by James Rendel Harris: /45 list of journal articles that mention the Thomas legend, 1914; /46 quotation from Chaldean Breviary relating to Thomas, nd; /47 notes a reference to Thomas in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale, nd; /48 Letter from Arent Jan Wensinck [Secretary to the Redaction of the Encyclopedia of Islam; Professor of Hebrew, then Arabic at University of Leiden], 1920; /49-/51 Letters from John F Stenning [scholar in Aramaic and oriental languages, Oxford], concerning his journey to the Convent of St Catherine, Mount Sinai, 1894; /52 Translation of an Armenian version of the Acts of Thomas, author unknown, post 1896. |