This volume, the Me‘arat Gazze or Cave of Treasures, is a compendious history of the world from the Creation to the Advent of our Jesus Christ. It is ascribed to Ephraim Syrius. The volume also contains numerous texts on matters of theology and ritual. Paper, about 83 in. by 63, consisting of 362...
This volume contains the grammar of Elias of Nisibis (f 2v), the Syriac grammar of Yoḥannān bar Zū‘bī (f 252r), with additional short tracts; a metrical treatise by Joseph bar Malkūm, Bishop of Mardin (f 276v); a paradigm of the verb (f 291r); and the same paradigm with equivalents in Sureth (mod...
This volume contains a treatise on natural history resembling the Physiologus Syrus, but greatly expanded. It also contains fragments of the Psalms as found in the Pešiṭṭā, arranged for the sevices of the canonical hours. Paper, about 61 in. by 44, consisting of 70 leaves. This manuscript is writ...