Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Add_1975 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Contents

E. Syriac lectionary of the Gospels.

Title: E. Syriac lectionary of the Gospels for the whole year, according to the use of the church of Mosul.
Language(s): Syriac

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 37½ cm.
Extent: 126 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a large bold vocalized E. Syriac script in 2 columns. A colophon on ff. 123r-125v gives the date 1897 AS = 1586 CE.

Binding

Bound in red leather over wooden boards, with some blind tooling.

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, including a list of all the lections, see W. Wright and S. A. Cook, A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge (1901), i.58-80.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library


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