MS. Pococke 86 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 1 work on the subjects of Jacobite Church, Lectionaries, and Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies

Title: Jacobite ritual [Syriac], with Arabic for rubrics, readings from Gospels and Epistles and commentaries on them, and many Arabic prayers in the marriage rite*.

*not, as Graf, the baptism rite

Language(s): Arabic, Syriac

References

Graf I, p. 656

[Payne-Smith 70]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 136 ff.

History

Origin: 1555 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Edward Pococke, d. 1691.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1692.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact Bodleian Admissions).

Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

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