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Language Syriac, Classical Digitised Content No Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 7170

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Title:
Syriac Lectionary
Scope & Content:
A Syriac lectionary of the Syriac Orthodox Church containing lessons from the Four Apostles. The manuscript begins with fragments of the tables of contents (ff. 2-5) before proceeding to the main text on f. 8. The various Gospels are not separated, but sections are given according to the readi...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1216-1220
Extent:
1 text, 265 ff

2. Add MS 8246

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Title:
PONTIFICAL OF THE MARONITE CHURCH; 1723. Syriac, Arabic and Latin. The Pontifical was written in 1683 in the Patriarchal Monastery of St. Mary, Kanubin, Mount Lebanon, by Stephen Doueihi, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch (1670-1704). As explained in the preface (ff. 4-6v), Doueihi''s text is a revision of the original Pontifical by Jeremiah (Ermiya) al-Amshiti, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch (1209-1230), based on a comparison with a ritual written in 1295 by Theodore, Archbishop of Akourah, and ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Mottled brown leather over pasteboards with gilt-tooled spine: mid 18th cent. Liturgies: Manuscripts ARABIC: Eastern Churches: Stephen Doueihi, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch: Jeremiah al-Amshiti, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch: Andrea Scandar, Professor of Arabic: Manuscripts S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Latin, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1723
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 10021

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Title:
GREGORII BAR HEBRÆI Grammatica Syriaca brevior ; sec. xviii. Syriace. Quarto. 10,021.
Scope & Content:
Gregorius, Bar Hebræus: Grammatica Syriaca brevior.: Syriace.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 25875

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Title:
Me‘arat Gazze
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1709-1710
Extent:
1 item, 362 fols.

5. Add MS 25876

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Title:
Syriac grammars and other texts
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1676
Extent:
1 item, 309 fols.

6. Add MS 25878

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Title:
Treatise on Natural History
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item, 70 fols.

7. Or 1017

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Or 1017
Title:
Works of Grigorius Bar-Hebraeus
Scope & Content:
A compendium of theology often known under the title Ktābā d-zalge. The manuscript was completed in 1675 AG (1364 CE) by Bar Ṣawmā Bar Dāwid, a monk of the convent of Qartnayn.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1364
Extent:
1 item, 208 fols

8. Or 1593

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Or 1593
Title:
Treatise on chemistry and natural philosophy
Scope & Content:
A treatise on chemistry and natural philosophy containing numerous diagrams and illustrations. The main text of the work is in Syriac, with many of the descriptions of the illustrations, as well as the marginalia, in Arabic Garshuni.A listing of alchemical symbols is found on folios 1v-2r. The ha...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item, 49 fols.

9. Or 2302

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Or 2302
Title:
Ktābā d-Pardesā
Scope & Content:
This volume contains Ktābā d-Pardesā (the Book of the Paradise of Eden), a collection of 50 theological poems arranged in alphabetic order. The titles of the poems are recorded in larger red letters, and some of the lines are numbered with Syriac letters on the outside of the text block. The colo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1694
Extent:
1 item, 131 fols.

10. Or 2314

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Or 2314
Title:
John Bar Zu'bi Grammar
Scope & Content:
A compendious grammar of the Classical Syriac language compiled by John Bar Zu'bi. The text is wanting in several sections including the colophon.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item, 164 fols.