The Laughable Stories Collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus / / E.A. Wallis Budge.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Budge, E.A. Wallis,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; PROLOGUE BY BAR-HEBRÆUS --; LIST OF CHAPTERS --; SAYINGS OF THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS --; SAYINGS OF THE PERSIAN SAGES --; SAYINGS OF THE INDIAN SAGES --; SAYINGS OF THE HEBREW SAGES --; SAYINGS OF THE CHRISTIAN RECLUSES --; SAYINGS OF THE MUHAMMADAN KINGS --; STORIES OF TEACHERS AND LEARNED MEN --; SAYINGS OF THE ARAB ASCETICS --; SAYINGS OF PHYSICIANS --; STORIES OF THE SPEECH OF IRRATIONAL BEASTS --; STORIES OF WEALTHY AND LIBERAL MEN --; STORIES OF MISERS --; STORIES OF MEN WHO FOLLOWED DESPISED HANDICRAFTS --; STORIES OF ACTORS AND COMEDIANS --; STORIES OF CLOWNS AND SIMPLETONS --; STORIES OF LUNATICS AND DEMONIACS --; STORIES OF THIEVES AND ROBBERS --; STORIES OF WONDERFUL EVENTS --; PHYSIOGNOMICAL CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBED --; APOLOGUE BY BAR-HEBR/EUS --; MISCELLANEOUS MORAL EXHORTATIONS --; BAR-HEBRÆEUS ON THE DEATH OF JOHN BAR-MA' DANI --; INDEX --; SYRIAC TEXT
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463209537; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463209537
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: E.A. Wallis Budge.

The first complete edition, containing 727 "laughable stories", by Bar-Hebraeus. It was the child of the compiler's old age, and says much for the broadmindedness and versatility of the learned Bar-Hebraeus.