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Syriac Manuscripts
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
Title: Memra on the departure of Mary.
ff. 160r-163v
Title: A miracle performed by the Blessed Virgin at Apamea.
ff. 163v-172r
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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