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Contents

E. Syriac Psalter.

Title: East Syriac liturgical Psalter.

Language(s): Syriac

Included are other texts for the daily offices. The whole contents are:

ff. 1r-128r

Title: The Psalms in the Peshitta version.

ff. 129r-133v

Title: Biblical canticles.

ff. 134v-148r

Title: Teshbḥata for the ecclesiastical year.

ff. 140v-147r

Title: Teshbḥata for ordinary days.

ff. 148r-155v

Title: Litanies.

ff. 155v-187v

Title: Martyrs' anthems.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 23½ cm.

Extent: 187 ff.

Condition

The volume was repaired and many leaves attached to guards sometime after 1816.

Hand(s)

Written in an angular E. Syriac hand of about the 18th cent. by a scribe named Hormez (the name appearing in a decoration on f. 134r).

Binding

Bound in full leather over paper boards.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented by the executors of the Rev. David Jenks,1935.

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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