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Syriac Manuscripts

New Testament in the Peshitta version.

3v-252v

Title: The New Testament in the Peshitta version.

Language(s): Syriac

1v-3r, 253v-254v

Title: A treatise of Eusebius of Caesarea on the native places, races, and deaths of the twelve apostles and 72 disciples.

Language(s): Syriac

Physical Description

Support: Vellum, 26 cm.

Extent: 256 ff.

Condition

The last two leaves are partly cut or worn away.

Hand(s)

Written in a classical E. Syriac estrangela by a monk Marqos, at the Monastery of Mar Michael above Mosul, in 1205/6 CE.

Binding

Bound in wooden boards which previously had clasps. Canvas that covered the boards and formed a backstrip is partly perished.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Deposited by the Bible Society, 1985. The Bible Society acquired it at auction in London sometime before 1920. It was previously brought to the U.S.A. from Urmia, Persia.

Record Sources

For a full description see J. F. Coakley, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in Cambridge University Library acquired since 1901 (2018).

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World