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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
ʿAbdishoʿ of Nisibis, Paradise of Eden.
Title: The Paradise of Eden.
Language(s): Syriac
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 29 cm.
Extent: 99 ff.
Hand(s)
Written in the E. Syriac hand of Shemun son of Israel of Alqosh and dated 2047 = 1735 CE.
Binding
Bound in full leather with some blind tooling over wooden boards.
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.423-25.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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