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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
W. Syriac priest's manual.
Title: W. Syriac priest's manual.
Language(s): In Syriac and Garshuni Arabic.
ff. 3v-68r
Title: Order of marriage.
ff. 68v-101v
Title: Orders of baptism.
ff. 101v-106r
Title: Emergency orders of baptism.
ff. 106v-130r
Title: Order of the eucharist.
ff. 130r-142v
Title: Prayers, prooemia, sedre etc. that a priest must learn by heart.
ff. 142v-156r
Title: Occasional prayers, beginning with graces before and after meals.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper, 21 cm.
Extent: 157 ff.
Hand(s)
Written in a neat W. Syriac hand and dated 1958 = 1647..
Binding
Old binding of leather with some blind tooling over wooden boards.
Condition
Some quires and single leaves are detached.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Acquired for the SPCK by George Percy Badger and presented to the Library in 1887.
Record Sources
For a full description see W. Wright and S. A. Cook, A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge (1901), i.309-14.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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