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Ṭaksa d-kahne.

Title: The Ṭaksa d-kahne.

Language(s): Syriac

The E. Syriac priests' book containing prayers for the daily offices; the three eucharistic liturgies; other services including baptism; and concluding hymns (ḥuttame).

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper, 25½ cm.

Extent: 198 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a good regular E. Syriac hand and dated 2018 = 1707 CE.

Binding

Old binding of leather over stout 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 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.283-301.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

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