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Syriac Manuscripts

Mushe bar Kepha, Commentary on John.

Author: Mushe bar Kepha.

Title: Commentary on the Gospel of John.

Language(s): Syriac

In two parts, with colophons at the end of each (ff. 185v, 310v).

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 26½ cm.

Extent: 310 ff.

Condition

Some leaves are torn or stained especially at the beginning and end, and some are repaired with patches from other mss.

Hand(s)

Written in a good W. Syriac serto script by Yeshuʿ of Barṭella, a monk of the monastery of Mar Mattai near Mosul, in Aug. 1507 AS = 1196 CE.

Binding

Bound in Cambridge in quarter 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 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.47-53.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

Comments

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World