Or_929 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Psalter in Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Arabic.
Title: Psalter.
Language(s): Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic
In parallel columns. The Syriac column is the Syrohexapla version.
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 25 cm.
Extent: 186 ff.
Hand(s)
Written in pointed Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic in four columns in each page-opening, apparently all by the same scribe, in red and black, and probably in the 14th century. The Syriac script is an archaizing serto with some estrangela.
Additions: See S.P. Brock, ‘A fourteenth-century polyglot Psalter’, in Studies in philology in honour of R. J. Williams, ed. G. E. Kadish and G. E. Freeman (Toronto 1982), 1-15.
Binding
Bound in Cambridge in quarter leather.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Presented by the friends of H. F. B. Lynch (d. 1913), 1915.
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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