Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Add. 1166 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Syriac Manuscripts

Contents

Miscellaneous works

2.

Colophon: f. "146v"
Language(s): Syriac

References

3.

Colophon: f. "146v"
Language(s): Syriac

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 148 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Collation

15 quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except 8th, witch has only 8

Layout

17 lines to the page

Hand(s)

Syriac- Jacobite cursive, mixed punctuation A.D.1606 Priest Micha, son of the carpenter Dawlatshah

Decoration

3r A figure of the Cross in the usual interlaced style ornament

Additions: Includes Notes in Italian Psalterio Syriaco manuscritto and in French les pseaumes de David en Siriaque, d'une tres belle escriture f. 2r

History

Origin: Copied at Convent Mār Abhhai , called the convent of the Ladders in 1606 CE

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on Wright, W. : A catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge. (vol 1), 1901".

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Cambridge University Library


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