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Syriac Manuscripts

Canons and extracts concerning canon law.

Title: A collection of canons and extracts from various writers concerning canon law.

Language(s): Syriac

Among the patristic writers cited are: Ephrem, Catholicos Timothy I, Jacob of Edessa, John Chrysostom, Moses bar Kepha, Basil of Caesarea, Philoxenus, Cyril of Alexandria, Dionysius the Areopagite, Gregory Nazienzen, Jacob of Serug, Rabbula of Edessa, John of Tella.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 25 cm.

Extent: 317 ff.

Condition

Leaves are wanting including at the beginning and end.

Hand(s)

Written in more than 1 neat and clear monoline serto scripts of the 13th cent.

Binding

Bound in full leather over wooden boards; re-backed in Cambridge.

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.600-28.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World