Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or_1145 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Contents

E. Syriac funeral services.

Title: East Syriac funeral services for priests, deacons and women religious.
Language(s): Syriac

'According to the rite of the monastery of Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham.'

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 31 cm.
Extent: 128 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a good Eastern hand by the deacon Toma son of Maqbaya in Gazarta. It is dated 1992 AS ( = 1681 CE).

Binding

Bound in leather over wooden boards.

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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