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Bar Hebraeus, Book of rays.

Author: Bar-Hebraeus.
Title: Book of rays (ṣemḥe).
Language(s): Syriac

The longer, prose grammar.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 31½ cm.
Extent: 222 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a clear lean serto hand with some vowels, and dated 2061 = 1750 CE.

Binding

Bound in full leather 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.515-18.

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