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Syriac Manuscripts

The Ḥudra.

Title: The Ḥudra.

Language(s): Syriac

Containing hymns for the daily offices and eucharist for the E. Syriac ecclesiastical year.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper, 42 cm.

Extent: 449 ff.

Condition

Ff. 1-11 and 437-49 are a later supply dated 1844.

Hand(s)

Written in a good regular E. Syriac hand and dated 1918 = 1607 CE.

Binding

Bound in full red leather.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Record Sources

For a full description see W. Wright and S. A. Cook, A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge (1901), i.163-93.

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