EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION (1)
I. Adalbert Merx, his Life and Works (1)
II. Select Bibliography of Merx’s writings (2)
III. The Historia artis grammaticae in subsequent research (5)
IV. Texts of the Syriac Grammatical Tradition (18)
V. Bibliography of subsequent research (30)
VI. Summary of the Historia artis grammaticae (36)
VII. Abbreviations used in the footnotes and endnotes (43)
VIII. Note on translating the Historia artis grammaticae (47)
PREFACE (49)
1. PROLEGOMENA (51)
2. TRANSLATION OF AN ANCIENT SYRIAC GRAMMAR (DIONYSIUS THRAX) (64)
3. ORTHOEPY, OR ACCURATE RECITATION (89)
4. THE LIFE AND WORK OF JACOB OF EDESSA (99)
5. THE SYRIAC GRAMMAR OF JACOB OF EDESSA (122)
6. JACOB’S IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SYRIAC ACCENTS AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GREEK, SYRIAC, AND HEBREW PUNCTUATION (142)
7. THE EAST SYRIAN GRAMMARIANS ʿENANIŠOʿ AND ḤUNAIN (193)
8. ELIAS OF NISIBIS, JOSEPH BAR MALKON, AND THE MASORETIC MANUSCRIPTS (204)
9. ELIAS OF ṬIRHAN AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ARABISING SCHOOL (233)
10. JOHN BAR ZUʿBI (261)
Appendix 1. Three Treatises on East Syriac Accentuation (281)
Appendix 2. Observations from the Reuchlian manuscript on Aramaic and Hebrew orthoepy (329)
11. JACOB OF TAGRIT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SEVERUS BAR ŠAKKO (340)
12. THE GRAMMAR OF BARHEBRAEUS (350)
CONCLUSION (388)
APPENDED TEXTS—NOTES TO THE NEW EDITION (398)
SYRIAC TEXTS
I. Jacob Bar Šakko, Dialogue on Grammar (400)
II. Jacob Bar Šakko, Harmony in Arrangement (441)
III. Dionyius Thrax, Technē Grammatikē (451)
IV. Jacob of Edessa, Grammar (463)
INDICES (483)