---
title: "AnonymClassic project (Gruendler et al.)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "AnonymClassic"
aliases: ["AnonymClassic project"]
first_seen: "2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Kalila wa-Dimna","Beatrice Gruendler","critical editions","transmission of texts","Ibn al-Muqaffa"]
---


ERC Advanced Grant project led by Beatrice Gruendler at Freie Universität
Berlin, building the first critical digital synoptic edition of the ~140
known Arabic manuscripts of *Kalīla wa-Dimna*. Its 2020 article (published on
medievalworlds.net) is this vault's Tier 1 anchor for the
[[claim-kalila-wa-dimna-descends-from-borzuyas-lost-pahlavi|Borzuya → Kalila
wa-Dimna transmission chain]] and its dates, and the source for two further
claims: a documented dissent on the chain's authenticity
([[claim-al-yamani-disputed-kalila-wa-dimnas-indian-origin]]) and an
independent Syriac transmission branch
([[claim-two-syriac-translations-of-kalila-wa-dimna-survive-independently]]).
Methodologically notable in its own right: the project models the text's
"mouvance" via "continuum" and "cross-copying" categories rather than a
single clean stemma — a live, ongoing case study in transmission-history
scholarship, and a real primary source reachable where Encyclopaedia
Iranica's equivalent pages were not (iranicaonline.org 403'd every fetch
attempt in the same session).

## References
- [[claim-kalila-wa-dimna-descends-from-borzuyas-lost-pahlavi]]
- [[claim-al-yamani-disputed-kalila-wa-dimnas-indian-origin]]
- [[claim-two-syriac-translations-of-kalila-wa-dimna-survive-independently]]
- [[claim-de-blois-borzuya-mission-historically-plausible-not-proven]]
- Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-26-do-tier-12-scholarly-sources-encyclopaedia-iranica-de.md