Add. 616 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: Originally containing the usual 50 poems with the commentary added by the author in 1316., first poem missing
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 109 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):
Collation
originally 12 quires, of 10 leaves, (the last has only 9). Quires signed with a letters
Layout
21 lines to the page
Hand(s)
Written in regular cursive Nestorian 1461, Jacobite cursive 16th C. ff. 11, ff. 12, ff. 19, ff. 20, ff. 31, ff. 40 19th C. ff. 1-10
Additions: At the beginning of the book pencil note "Nathan Lazarus Benmohell", two leaves containing an attempt describing the contents of the volume by Benmohel, N. L. (Nathan Lazarus), approximately 1800-1869 Nathan Lazarus Benmohell
History
Origin: Iraq Copied at Convent of Mār Sabhr-īshō' called Bēth Kūkā, on the great Zābh 1461 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
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