Or_1143 (University Library, Cambridge University)

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Shḥimo.

Language(s): Syriac

Title: W. Syriac Shḥimo or book of daily offices.

It contains: daily offices for weekdays (2v-148r); miscellaneous hymns and prayers, including four qole said at the feast of the Nativity (149r-1543r); mawrbe (i.e., stanzas sung after the Magnificat in the night office; 153r-168v).

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 21 cm.
Extent: 168 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in several everyday serto hands, with some Greek vowel-signs early in the volume.

Binding

Bound in cloth in Cambridge.

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).

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