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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
John of Dalyata, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Jacob of Serug.
Language(s): Syriac
ff. 3v-131v
Title: Works, including an introduction, discourses, letters, and hymns.
ff. 132r-157v
Title: Letter to a friend on the monastic life.
ff. 157v-162r
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.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Cambridge University Library
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