Story of the Talking Skull

[latin title]

Standard abbreviation:

Other titles: Story of Arsanis, Story of the Skull, Story of the Skull that Conversed with Jesus, Tale of the Skull

Clavis numbers: ECCA 234

Category:

Related literature: Story of King Skull (Jewish-Persian text)

Status: unassigned

Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style):

1. SUMMARY

2. RESOURCES

2.1 Online Resources

HMML authority file

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Arabic

3.1.1.1 Arabic Script (Islamic Version)

Ṣanʻāʼ (Yemen), Maktabat Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Manṣūr, 12, fols. 45r–46r (1833) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 41, fols. 1–3 (18–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 2556, fols. 1–10 (1990–1999) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4023, fols. 1–10 (20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4085, fols. 1–10 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4145, fols. 1–12 (18th–20th cent.) ~  HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4375, fols. 1–12 (18th–20th cent.) ~  HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4739, fols. 1–5 (18th–20th cent.) ~  HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4386, fols. 1–8 (1990–1999) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4423, fols. 1–16 (1960–1999) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 4909, pp. 1–6 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 5082, fols. 1–10 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 5119, fols. 1–4 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 6192, fols. 1–14 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Aboubacar Ben Said Library, 7100, pp. 1–32 (18–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Bibliothèque de Manuscrits al-Imam Essayouti, 3776 fols. 1–10 (19th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Bibliothèque de Manuscrits al-Imam Essayouti, 3779 fols. 1–6 (19th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 14657, fols. 1–6 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 15170, fols. 1–8 (18th–20th cent.) ~  HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 15171, fols. 1–9 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 15223, fols. 1–6 (18th–20th cent.) ~  HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 15225, fols. 1–6 (18th–20th cent.) ~  HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 15387, fols. 1–14 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 15389, fols. 1–10 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 15611, fols. 1–5 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 16079, fols. 1–9 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 16267, pp. 1–8 (18th–20th cent.) ~  HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 16553, fols. 1–11 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 16719, fols. 1–6 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 16974, fols. 1–12 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 17653, fols. 1–8 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 21123, fols. 1–8 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Tombouctou, Mama Haidara Library, 23334, pp. 1–37 (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Ørum, Olav G. ᵓUṣṣit il-Gumguma or “The Story of the Skull” With Parallel Versions, Translation and Linguistic Analysis of Three 19th-century Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts from Egypt. Supplemented with Arabic Transliteration. Leiden: Brill, 2017 (pp. 22–73, 130–81).

3.1.1.1 Garšūnī Script

Mardin, Church of the Forty Martyrs, 126, fols. 32^r–43^v (17th cent.) ~ HMML

Mardin, Church of the Forty Martyrs, 304, pp. 189–240 (16th cent.) ~ HMML

Mardin, Mar Hirmiz Keldani Kilisesi, 18, fols. 178^r–185^r (1609/1610) ~ HMML

Mosul, Mar Behnam Monastery, 388 (Sony 405; olim 318) (1661) ~ HMML

Mosul, Dominican Friars of Mosul, 614, fols. 57^r–61^r (1885) ~ HMML

Mosul, Mar Behnam Monastery, 461 (Sony 483; olim 325) (18th–20th cent.) ~ HMML

Graf, Georg. Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur. 5 vols. Studi e testi 118, 133, 146–147, 172. Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944–1953 (additional manuscripts listed, vol. 1, pp. 552).

3.1.2 Syriac

Baghdad, Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarchate of Baghdad, CPB 291 (1722), pp. 516–530 (1704) ~ HMML (Apoc Paul; story of the resurrection?)

Karamlis, Mar Addai Church, 83, fols. 22^v–24^v (1932) ~ HMML

Tehran, Chaldean Church of Saint Joseph, 8, fols. 132^r–136^r (1741/1742)

Urmia, Oroomia Mission Library (no other identifiers)

Hall, Isaac H. “The Story of Arsanis.” Hebraica 6.2 (1890): 81–88 (edition of the unidentified Urmia manuscript, pp. 82–86, with English translation, pp. 86–88).

3.2 Modern Translations

3.2.1 English

Hall, Isaac H. “The Story of Arsanis.” Hebraica 6.2 (1890): 81–88 (edition of the unidentified Urmia manuscript, pp. 82–86, with English translation, pp. 86–88).

3.3 General Works

Brakel-Papenhuyzen, Clara. “The Tale of the Skull – An Islamic Description of Hell in Javanese.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania 158.1 (2002): 1–19.

Grypeou, Emmanouela. “Talking Skulls: On Some Personal Accounts of Hell and Their Place in Apocalyptic Literature.” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 20.1 (2016): 109–26 (pp. 112

Pennacchietti, Fabrizio. “Il racconto di Giomgiomé di Faridoddìn Attàr e le sue fonti cristiane.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 62 (1996): 89−112.

———. “La Storia del teschio e del re e il racconto biblico di Susanna.” Vedute sull’Egitto antico: Annuario 6 (1995−1996): 56−62.

———. “La leggenda islamica del teschio redivivo in una versione neoaramaica.” Pages 103–32 in Semitic and Cushitic Studies. Edited by Gideon Goldenberg and S. Raz. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994.