Or_1300 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Bar-Hebraeus, Shorter, metrical grammar; with another poetic text.

Language(s): Syriac

ff. 4r-6r

Title: From the mouth of wisdom not acquired except by bitter experience

An anonymous poem in 12-syllable rhymed lines.

ff. 6v-111v

Author: Barhebraeus

Title: Shorter grammar

Called here the ‘Introduction to the (Book of) rays’ (i.e., the longer grammar).

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 21½ cm.

Extent: 112 ff.

Condition

Some leaves are attached to guards and many are replacments for lost leaves.

Hand(s)

Written by an unidentified scribe in a neat but uncalligraphic East Syriac hand in 2 columns. The inside column contains the main text; the outside column in smaller writing the commentary.

A colophon on f. 111v gives the date for finishing the ms. as 1996 AS (= 1685. CE)

Binding

Bound in full red leather over wooden boards in 1876 by the deacon Abraham Shekwana of Alqosh.

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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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World