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John of Dalyata, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Jacob of Serug.

Language(s): Syriac

ff. 3v-131v
Author: John of Dalyata.
Title: Works, including an introduction, discourses, letters, and hymns.
ff. 132r-157v
Author: Philoxenus of Mabbug.
Title: Letter to a friend on the monastic life.
ff. 157v-162r
Author: Jacob of Serug.
Title: Extracts.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 18 cm.
Extent: 162 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a fine E. Syriac hand with a few vowels, of about the 16th century.

Binding

Bound in full leather with 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.445-71.

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