Mitteliranisch-christliche Manuskriptologie

By outlining the main codicological features of the Christian Iranian manuscript fragments, and, in so doing, the scribal practices that led to the creation of the Christian Iranian manuscript tradition, the contribution shows how this peculiar manuscript tradition is inextricably related to the Church of the East, to its history, to its missionary activity along the Silk Roads, to its mainly centres which were based in Mesopotamia. At the same time, we will also discuss if and to what extent this corpus is related to the multilingual, multicultural and multi-religious Turfan milieu in the 8th – 11th centuries.