Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or_1131 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Contents

West Syriac deacon's manual.

Language(s): Headings are generally in Arabic (Garshuni) but the texts are in Syriac.

1v-27v
Title: Short hymns for the use of deacons.
32r-48r
Title: The deacon's part in the eucharist.

Apparently incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 16 cm.
Extent: 48 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in an everyday serto hand of probably the 19th century in red and blacks.

Binding

Bound in paper boards with a cloth spine.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by Huw Ifor Lloyd, 1928.

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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