Add_2810 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

New Testament in the Peshiṭta version.

Title: The New Testament in the Peshiṭta version.

Language(s): Syriac

The main ms., consisting of the Gospels, Acts and Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles (breaking off with Heb. 11.31), is on ff. 1-175.

Ff. 176-179, containing parts of the Pauline epistles, come from a similar but different manuscript.

Physical Description

Support: Vellum, 23 cm.

Extent: 182 ff.

Condition

The leaves are damaged to various degrees, darkened, some torn, and all blackened around the edges. Leaves are wanting, including at the beginning and end.

Hand(s)

Written in a formal E. Syriac estrangela hand of about the 11th or 12th century.

Binding

Unbound.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased through Prof. William Wright in 1888.

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.628-29.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World