Add_1963 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Old Testament Bet Mawtbe.

Title: The book of Bet Mawtbe in the Peshiṭta version.

Language(s): Syriac

That is, the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Proverbs, Qoheleth, Ruth, Song of Songs, Bar Sira, and Job.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 31 cm.

Extent: 272 ff. including a front flyleaf.

Condition

Ff. 2-4, 268-72 are replacement leaves.

Hand(s)

Written in a good regular East Syriac hand by a scribe named Joseph (named on f. 53v) of about the 18th cent. The later leaves were written by the priest Abraham in 1843 (f. 272r).

Binding

Oriental binding in full leather over wooden boards, similar to Add_1962.

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.20.

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

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World