Or_2544 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
W. Syriac Fenqitho, imperfect.
Title: Fenqitho.
Language(s): Syriac
Hymns and prayers for the feasts of the W. Syriac ecclesiastical year. The surviving leaves span the feasts from the Consecration of the church until the Sunday of Hosannas.
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 25 cm.
Extent: 81 ff.
Condition
Badly damaged and imperfect. Many leaves including at least one whole quire are lost in the middle of the volume, and further leaves at the end. Ff. 19-29 are partly torn away. Many leaves are repaired. All the leaves are stained from long handling.
Hand(s)
Written in an uncalligraphic serto hand of probably the 16th or 17th cent.
Binding
Bound in wooden boards with a canvas spine, now in poor condition.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased, 2003.
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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