Or_825 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Miscellaneous leaves bound together, some in Malayalam Karshon.
1. ff. 1-41
Title: Snatches of liturgical poetry and prayers.
Language(s): Syriac
Apparently written out as exercises in copying.
2. ff. 47-51
Title: Excerpts from memre.
Language(s): Syriac
3. ff. 48b, 42-6
Title: Questions for a priest to ask at confession.
Language(s): Malayalam Karshon
4. ff. 52-64
Title: A different text, apparently retelling the Passion story.
Language(s): Malayalam Karshon
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 20 cm.
Extent: 64 ff.
Hand(s)
Written in various Indian E. Syriac hands and in Malayalam Karshon, all probably of the 18th-19th cents.
Binding
Bound in Cambridge in half leather.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased from George B. Howard, 1910.
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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