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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Bar-Hebraeus, Cream of the sciences.
ff. 1v-66v.
Title: The Cream of the sciences.
Language(s): In Syriac with a Garshuni Arabic translation.
A compendium of logic, physics, and theology. The Arabic and Syriac are in parallel columns.
ff. 66v-67v.
Title: A creed.
Language(s): Syriac
ff. 68r-72r.
Title: Brief introduction to the science of logic.
Language(s): In Garshuni Arabic.
ff. 72v-97a.
Title: Commentary on al-Abharī's Introduction.
Language(s): In Garshuni Arabic.
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 17½ cm.
Extent: 97 ff.
Condition
Ff. 2-11 are a later supply.
Hand(s)
Written in a neat serto hand and dated 1703 CE.
Binding
Crudely bound in canvas over paper 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.496-500.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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