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E. Syriac services for Palm Sunday and Easter.

ff. 1v-74v.

Title: Service of Hosannas (Ṭaksa d-ʿOshane).

Language(s): Syriac

This includes a section captioned 'Another order (sedra) of the townspeople (maḥozaye)' beginning on f. 52a with a drawing of Jesus entering Jerusalem.

ff. 74v-107v

Title: Service for Easter (Ḥugaya da-qyamta).

Language(s): Syriac

Physical Description

Support: Paper, 22½ cm.

Extent: 109 ff.

Hand(s)

Written in a good E. Syriac hand with much rubrication, and dated 2040 = 1729 CE.

Binding

Bound in full leather over wooden boards.

History

Origin:

Provenance and Acquisition

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

Record Sources

For a fuller description see W. Wright and S. A. Cook, A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge (1901), ii.1179-81.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library

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