Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Or_1320 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Contents

Miscellany of E. Syriac texts.

Language(s): Syriac

1. i.1-ii.10
Title: Book of chastity.
2. ii.10-22
Title: ʿOnyata on each of the saints.
3. ii.22-26
Title: ʿOnita on the Catholikoi of the East.
4. ii.26-28
Title: Historical notes on the caliph, genealogy of Muhammad, etc.
5. ii.28-52
Title: The legend of Sergius Baḥira.
6. ii.52-65
Title: The disputation between an Arab and a monk in the Monastery of Bet Ḥale.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper, 23 cm.
Extent: 2 vols. (54 and 66 ff.)

Hand(s)

Written in the everyday E. Syriac hand of Yawsep Qelaita and finished on 14 January 1899.

Additions:

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).

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library


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