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Contents

Works on the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Language(s): Syriac

ff. 1r-152r

Title: The History of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 6 books.

ff. 152r-159v

Author: Jacob of Serug.

Title: Memra on the departure of Mary.

ff. 160r-163v

Title: A miracle performed by the Blessed Virgin at Apamea.

ff. 163v-172r

Author: Ephrem.

Title: Memra on Mary and Joseph and the envy of the Jews.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 13½ cm.

Extent: 173 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a neat small serto hand and dated 1792 = 1481 CE.

Binding

Bound in full leather with blind tooling (the spine now perished) 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.487-91.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

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