Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Add_2007 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Contents

Bar-Hebraeus, Book of rays.

Title: Book of rays (zalge).
Language(s): Syriac

A treatise on various theological subjects in 9 memre.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 18 cm.
Extent: 118 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a small neat serto hand of about the 15th century.

Ff. 1-10, 51, 60 are a later supplement dated 1914 = 1603 CE.

Binding

Bound in full leather with some 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.506-10.

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library


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