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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 11856

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Title:
Gospels
Scope & Content:
A beautiful codex with colorful and golden illustrations of the four evangelists and floral patterns. It belongs to the so-called Alexandrian or Egyptian Vulgate recension, which became the most wide spread version of the Gospels in the Coptic and other communities from the thirteenth century on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1336-1337
Extent:

Codex; ff. 205

4. Add MS 12134

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Title:
Mapqānā - ܡܦܩܢܐ
Scope & Content:
The Book of Exodus, or ܡܦܩܢܐ, translated form the Septuagint by Paul of Tellā, and divided into chapters called ܩܦܠܐܐ, of which there are ten in the manuscript. There also 42 marginal sub-divisions and over 3300 versicles. The text starts on f. 2r with an imperfect listing of the lessons that ar...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
697
Extent:

1 text, 134 ff.

5. Add MS 12139

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Title:
ᶜal ḥalā w-súyāᶜā d-tlítiyútā qadíšā: mšrínan d-nektúb pāreš d-qeryāne d-ᶜatíqtā w-d-ḥadtā - ܥܠ ܚܠܐ ܘܣܘܝܥܐ ܕܬܠܝܬܝܘܬܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ : ܡܫܪܝܢܢ ܕܢܟܬܘܒ ܦܪܫ ܕܩܪܝܢܐ ܕܥܬܝܩܐ ܘܕܚܕܬܐ
Scope & Content:
The first part of a lectionary from the Old and New Testaments, selected and arranged by Athanasius, Patriarch of Antioch, intended for use in the Church of the East. The lessons are all taken from the Pešíṭtā, with the exception of a few at the beginning, which are from the LXX and the Harklean...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1000
Extent:

1 text, 139 ff.

6. Add MS 12150

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Title:
Syriac Codex
Scope & Content:
A codex of six Syriac texts, all copied in the same Madenḥāyā hand. f. 1r: A series of notes in Arabic and Syriac written in a hand other than that of the scribe, primarily religious formulae, as well as a brief, partially illegible inscription in Greek or Coptic; ff. 1v-72v: The Recognition...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
412
Extent:

Codex, 255 ff

7. Add MS 12375

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Scope & Content:
Minhāj at-Tālibīn by Abú Zakariya Yahya an-Nawawi in Arabic; a treatise on Islamic law. Many marginal annotations and paratexts in a much smaller hand. The colophon on f. 196r is dated Jumadilawal 1161 (April 1748), and the scribe named as Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Boni al-Malari (of Bone and...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:

209 folios

8. Add MS 14456

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Title:
Iwangelíon
Scope & Content:
An imperfect copy of the Gospels (ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ) in the Peshíṭtā version. The four books are divided as follows: ff. 3v-43v: The Gospel of Matthew, which is missing chapters VIII.10-IX.2; ff. 43v-72v: The Gospel of Mark; ff. 72v-119r: The Gospel of Luke; ff. 119r-156: The Gospel of John. Eac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
7th century-8th century
Extent:
1 text, 156 ff.

9. Add MS 14467

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Title:
Fragments from the Gospels of Matthew and John
Scope & Content:
This volume contains portions from Matthew and John. Another part of the manuscript is found in Leipzig, University Library, Or. 1075. These fragments contain an early Arabic rendition of the Gospels, presented in parallel with a Syriac rendition. As such, they serve as witnesses to the biling...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. 15.

10. 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.

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