Or_1296 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Hymns of Warda.
Title: Hymns (Ężonyata) by Giwargis Warda and others for Sundays, feasts, and commemorations.
Language(s): Syriac
The contents differ from the both the recorded recensions of this collection.
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 30 cm.
Extent: 302 ff.
Condition
Ff. 1-18 are replacements for lost leaves at the beginning of the manuscript; but leaves are lost here too after ff. 12 and 15.
Hand(s)
Written in a good regular East Syriac hand by an unknown scribe. The colophon on f. 302v states that the manuscript was finished on 16 March 2060 AS = 1749 CE in Darband in Tergawar.
Binding
Bound in Cambridge in quarter leather.
History
Origin:
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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