Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Add_2034 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Contents

Pentateuch in the Peshiá¹­ta version.

Title: The Pentateuch in the Peshiá¹­ta version.
Language(s): Syriac

Peshitta Institute siglulm 16b2.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 32 cm.
Extent: 171 ff.

Condition

In poor condition: damaged at the beginning and end with many leaves missing.

Hand(s)

Written in a good E. Syriac hand of about the 17th cent.

Binding

Originally bound in wooden boards, but one is now detached and the sewing is in bad condition.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

From the library of Robert Bensly. It was purchased by him in 1891.

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.1137.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library


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