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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Four Gospels in the Harklean version.
Title: The Four Gospels in the Harklean version.
Language(s): Syriac
Physical Description
Support: Vellum, 15½ cm.
Extent: 222 ff.
Condition
Eighteen leaves are lost and many others misplaced by the western binder who repaired the ms.
Hand(s)
Written in a fine formal serto hand in a village near Melitene in Cappadocia in 1011 CE or perhaps 1061 CE (the date in the colophon being hard to make out).
Binding
Binding in full polished leather with blind tooling, repaired by a western binder.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased from the dealer J. J. Naaman, 1902.
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
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