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Language Syriac, Classical Level [32] Fonds

11. Add MS 18819

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 18819
Title:
THE HYMNS of Severus and others. Syriac. (Imperfect.) Vellum; written in part in the year of the Greeks 1195 (A.D. 884). Duodecimo. Add. 18,819.
Scope & Content:
Dated Mss. Oriental Syriac: Hymns: 884. Severus, Patriarch of Antioch: Hymns.: Syriac.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 25875

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Add MS 25875
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.

13. Add MS 25876

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Add MS 25876
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.

14. Add MS 25878

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Add MS 25878
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.

15. Egerton MS 709

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 709
Title:
Opus chemicum, partim Syriace et partim Arabice, sed literis Syriacis. Octavo. Bibl. Eg. 709.
Scope & Content:
Alchemy: Opus chemicum: Partly Arabic, partly Syrian.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

16. IO Islamic 3810

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 3810
Title:
al-Mughnī fī tadbīr al-amrāḍ wa-maʿrifat al-ʿilal wa-al-aʿrāḍ المغني في تدبير الأمراض ومعرفة العلل والأعراض Saʿīd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين
Scope & Content:
Concise handbook of medicine by Abū al-Ḥasan Sa‘īd ibn Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (أبو الحسن سعيد بن هبة الله بن الحسين; d. 1101), personal physician to the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadī (المقتدي, reg. 1075-94) to whom this work is dedicated (f. 3v, line 9). The title of the text is often abbreviated...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
19 Jumādá II 567
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+108+ii

17. Or 1017

Reference (shelfmark):
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

18. Or 1593

Reference (shelfmark):
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.

19. Or 2302

Reference (shelfmark):
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.

20. Or 2314

Reference (shelfmark):
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.