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Syriac Manuscripts

The Gazza.

Title: The Gazza.

Language(s): Syriac

Containing the propers at the E. Syriac night-morning service for festivals of our Lord and commemorations of saints.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper, 45 cm.

Extent: 445 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a large clear E. Syriac hand and dated 2034 = 1723 CE.

Additions:

Binding

Bound in full red leather with some blind-tooled lines over wooden boards.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired for the SPCK by George Percy Badger and presented to the Library in 1887.

Record Sources

For a fuller description see W. Wright and S. A. Cook, A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge (1901), i.147-63.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card. For admissions procedures contact Cambridge University Library Admissions. Contact near_eastern@lib.cam.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript

Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

Comments

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World