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Syriac Manuscripts
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E. Syriac lectionary of the Gospels.
Title: East Syriac lectionary of the Gospels in the Peshiṭta version, for Sundays, saints' days and festivals, "according to the order of the churches in Mosul".
Language(s): Syriac
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 32½ cm.
Extent: 88 ff.
Hand(s)
Written in a good regular East Syriac script in 2 columns by the priest ʿAbdishoʿ son of Archdeacon Elia from the village of Mawana in Tergawar. The date appears to be 1709 CE.
Binding
Bound in wooden boards with a canvas spine.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Deposited by the Bible Society, 1985. It was acquired for the Bible Society by Joseph Wolff in Persia in 1825.
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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