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1. Add MS 7154

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Title:
Ktābā Dawíd - ܟܬܒܐ ܕܘܝܕ
Scope & Content:
A Psalterion containing Syriac translations of the Psalms of King David, prepared for use in the Church of the East. The start of the manuscript contains a series of illustrations, most of which are done as line drawings: f. 1r : Saint Paul the Hermit, accompanied by a bird carrying a ring a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1203
Extent:
1 text, 183 ff

2. Add MS 7174

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Title:
Iwangiliún - ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ
Scope & Content:
All four Gospels arranged into specific reading passages identified for dates throughout the Church year, intended for use in the Church of the East. The chapters are occasionally separated by intricate geometrical illumination (see f. 56r, 59v, 76v, 87v. 111v, 119v, 122v, 139r, 155r, 186v, 203v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1499
Extent:

Codex, 219 ff

3. Add MS 15442

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Title:
Psalms with commentary by Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭayyib
Scope & Content:
This still largely unedited commentary of the Psalms was composed by the physician, philosopher and East Syriac theologian Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭayyib (d. 1043). Ibn Ṭayyib was read by famous Muslim philosophers such as Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd, as well as by the Jewish polymath Maimonides....
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1188
Extent:

Codex; 214 fols.

4. Add MS 17725

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Title:
THE LITURGIES of S. Basil, S. Gregory, and S. Cyril, adapted to the use of the Coptic Church in Abyssinia. In Coptic and Arabic. Paper; XVIth cent. Quarto. [Add. 17,725.]
Scope & Content:
Liturgies and Martyrologies: Liturgies of SS. Basil, Gregory, and Cyril, adapted to the use of the Abyssinian Church: 16th cent. Liturgies Coptic: Liturgies for the Coptic Church in Abyssinia.: Copt. and Arab.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 17983

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Title:
Peshíṭtā - ܦܫܝܛܬܐ
Scope & Content:
The Peshíṭtā, or Syriac simplified version of the New Testament, in bilingual format, with the original Syriac text matched against its Garshuni Arabic translation. The text contains all four Gospels, albeit with several passages wanting. The contents of the manuscript are as follows: ff. 1v-3...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1438
Extent:

1 text, 318 ff.

6. Add MS 18295

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Title:
BAR-HEBRÆUS, Ethics; with several short tracts. Syriac. Paper; written in the year of the Greeks 1914 (A.D. 1603). Small Quarto. Add. 18,295.
Scope & Content:
Bar Hebræus: Ethics and Theology.: Syr. and Arab.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 18997

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Title:
The Proverbs and Book of Job
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Proverbs and Job in bilingual Coptic and Arabic texts. For extracts, see Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, pp. 354-355. Contents: Proverbs, fols. 2r–49r Introductory note on Job (taqdima), fol. 49v Job, fols. 50r–165r Scribal notes: 165 There are two colophons on ff 49r...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Coptic
Date Range:
1796
Extent:
Codex, 165 ff

8. Add MS 18998

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Title:
Two theological tracts by ʿAmmār al-Basṛī
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two theological tracts by ʿAmmār al-Basṛī : 1) Kitāb al-burhān (كتاب البرهان), ‘The Proof ’ (fols. 1v-43r); 2) Kitāb al-masāʾil wa-l-ajwibah (كتاب المسائل والأجوبة), ‘Questions and answers’ (fols. 44r-127v). The two tracts transmitted in this manuscript are written by t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1297
Extent:

Codex; ff. 127

9. Add MS 22406

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Title:
Volume one of a seven-volume Qur'an commissioned by Rukn al-Dīn Baybars, later Sultan Baybars II
Scope & Content:
Contains first seventh (سبع) of Qur’ān, and commissioning certificate/colophon. Illuminators for the seven volumes include: Aydughdī ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Badrī; Muḥammad ibn Mubādir (signature in vol. 1); Abu Bakr, known as Ṣandal ( signature in vols 3 and 5). The entire seven volumes of the Bayb...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
704-05
Extent:

Codex; ff.155

10. Add MS 22407

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Title:
Volume two of a seven-volume Qur'an commissioned by Rukn al-Dīn Baybars, later Sultan Baybars II
Scope & Content:
Contains second seventh (سبع) of Qur’ān, and commissioning certificate/colophon. Illuminators for the seven volumes include: Aydughdī ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Badrī; Muḥammad ibn Mubādir (signature in vol. 1); Abu Bakr, known as Ṣandal ( signature in vols 3 and 5). The entire seven volumes of the Bay...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
704-05
Extent:

Codex; ff.153