Add. 3281 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Treatise in defence of the Roman Catholic religion
Title: The polished mirror
Title: Al-Mir'āt al-Majlīyah
Title: المرئات المجلية
Colophon: f. 148v
Language(s): Arabic-Karshuni
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 149 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):
Collation
Quires, unsigned
Layout
19 or 20 lines to the page
Hand(s)
Written in good, regular Jacobite sertā XVIIIth Cent.
Decoration
Additions: At the end, f. 147r is a brief autobiography of the author. A later hand has added A.D. 1725, f. 147r and it is probably correct because the author died in A.D. 1724, according to Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, 1687-1768.
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on Wright, W. : A catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge. (vol 2), 1901".
Availability
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