Add_2044 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
E. Syriac funeral services.
Title: E. Syriac funeral services.
Language(s): Syriac
Included are services for clergy, and lay men, women, and children.
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 16½ cm.
Extent: 206 ff.
Condition
Ff. 1-32 are a later supply.
Hand(s)
Written in a neat if not elegant E. Syriac hand and dated 1852 = 1541 CE.
Binding
Bound in leather over wooden boards, the leather now mostly perished.
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.1170-73.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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