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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
East Syriac liturgical Psalter.
Language(s): Syriac
Divided into hulale and marmyata including the biblical canticles; with prayers.
This dates the ms. to 2137 AS = 1826.
Physical Description
Condition
Hand(s)
Written in a neat professional East Syriac hand by the scribe Emmanuel son of Hormizd of Mosul.
Decoration
There are decorative panels throughout, including a full page with Arabic text in gold and black, f. 234r.
Binding
Oriental binding in full leather with onlays stamped in blind.
History
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
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Funding of Cataloguing
Cambridge University Library
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