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Bar-Hebraeus, Ethicon.

Author: Bar-Hebraeus.

Title: Ethicon.

Language(s): Syriac

In four memre.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 22½ cm.

Extent: 326 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a regular serto hand of the 18th cent. According to a colophon (f. 325v) in which some information is erased, the scribe was a monk Ṣaliba. On f. 324v a later hand has written some words in the 'alphabet of Bardaisan': 'Pray for the sinner Karas bishop of Mar Behnam.'

Binding

Bound in full leather with blind tooling over paper boards, now in poor condition.

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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