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E. Syriac liturgical Psalter.

1v-71v

Title: The Psalms.

Language(s): Syriac

Divided into hulale and marmyata, and provided with headings and prayers.

72r-111v

Title: hymns (teshbḥata) for the church year.

Language(s): Syriac

This includes a section of litanies, ff. 81r-91r, and 12 martyrs' anthems (qale), ff. 91r-111v.

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 33 cm.

Extent: 112 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a good clear E. Syriac hand in 2 columns and dated 2114 = 1803 CE.

Binding

Bound in wooden boards, repaired in Cambridge.

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.1153-55.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

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