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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

Cambridge University Library

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