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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Monastic anthology.
2r-96v
Title: Paradise of the Fathers.
Language(s): Syriac
Selections from the third part.
96v-105v
Title: Letter.
Language(s): Syriac
105v-109r
Title: Profitable sayings of the holy fathers.
Language(s): Syriac
109r-123r
Title: Six memre.
Language(s): Syriac
123r-136v
Title: Memre.
Language(s): Syriac
136v-138r
Title: Letter.
Language(s): Syriac
138r-140v
Title: Letter.
Language(s): Syriac
140v-144r
Title: Letter.
Language(s): Syriac
144r-170v
Title: Admonition and letters.
Language(s): Syriac
170v-176r
Title: Letter.
Language(s): Syriac
176r-179r
Title: Extracts.
Language(s): Syriac
179r-182r
Title: Memra on silence.
Language(s): Syriac
182r-204b
Title: Questions of the brothers that they asked to the elders and their answers.
Language(s): Syriac
206r-209v
Title: Prayer.
Language(s): Syriac
209v-210v
Title: Other prayers, including by Dionysius and John the Small.
Language(s): Syriac
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 17½ cm.
Extent: 212 ff.
Hand(s)
Written in a good serto hand and dated 1763 = 1452 CE.
The last 6 leaves are in a later hand and more recent.
Binding
The binding has perished.
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), ii.570-83.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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