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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
E. Syriac services for Easter.
ff. 3v-76v
Title: E. Syriac services for the feast of the Resurrection
Language(s): Some hymns (shuraye ) are in Persian and Turkish.
Including the daily offices, the eucharist, and miscellaneous hymns.
ff. 77v-80v
Title: The dialogue poem (sogita) of the thief and the cherub
Language(s): in rhyming modern Syriac.
Physical Description
Support: Paper
Extent: 82 ff., 40 cm.
Hand(s)
Written in a mannered broad-penned script with much coloured decoration. The scribe was Ḥadbshabba son of Q. Zaradosht of the village of Ashitha in Tiyari in 1904 CE.
Binding
Binding in full leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled on front and back.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Presented by W. H. Browne, 1906.
Record Sources
For a full description see J. F. Coakley, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in Cambridge University Library acquired since 1901 (2018).
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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