Add. 3290 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Discourses
Title: Discourses of Ephraim Syrus,
Fifty-two in number, translated from Syriac into Arabic.
Language(s): Arabic
References
Identical with the first 52 discourses described by Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, 1687-1768., according to cod. Vat. viii, in the Bibl. Orient. i. 150-156; except that Assemani's no. 51 is placed in this MS after no. 35, f. 172v, and ff. 4v-5v, and the discourses begin on f. 6r
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 255 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):
Collation
The quires are mostly of 8 leaves, but some have 10, signed on the first and last page with Arabic words and numerals. The numeration ceases at f. 138v
Layout
19 lines to the page
Hand(s)
Written in neat, regular Naskhī XVIIIth Cent.
Decoration
Additions: An index occupies ff. 4v-5v. Other notes are on ff. 252r, 253r, 254v. 3 crescent and other types
Binding
In the original binding
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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