Or_1130 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: Two poems in the modern Syriac dialect of Telkef, attributed to (i.e., collected by?) Toma Tektek.
Language(s): Modern Syriac
ff. 1v-12r
Title: On the war between Mesqop and the Sultan
That is, Russia and Turkey.
ff. 12r-15v
Title: On the famine of 1879.
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 23½ cm.
Extent: 15 ff.
Condition
Apparently the first two quires remaining from an originally larger ms.
Hand(s)
Written in a stiff E. Syriac hand in red and black, not before 1879.
Additions:
Binding
Bound in cloth in Cambridge.
History
Origin:
Record Sources
For a full description see J. F. Coakley, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in Cambridge University Library acquired since 1901 (2018).
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Funding of Cataloguing
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