Archive Reference (shelfmark): Or 8735 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8735
Title:: Codex
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a composite work of two books bound together: (Book 1) Biblical books (Hebrew Bible + deuterocanonical books); (Book 2) sermons and saints (including Job).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1786-1899
Extent:: Codex, 2 volumes, 70 ff (Book 1); 160 ff (Book 2)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8735A
Title:: Biblical books
Scope & Content:: This volume contains Biblical books with the following contents: Ezra (i.e. protocanonical Ezra), divided into 10 chapters (faṣl), fols. 1r–21r Ezra II (i.e. Nehemiah), divided into 13 chapters (faṣl), fols. 21v–50r Tobit, divided into 13 parts (faṣl, cf. modern division), fols. 50v–69r (Fo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1768
Extent:: Codex, 70 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8735B
Title:: Sermons and Saints including Job
Scope & Content:: This book contains sermons, lives of martyrs, and translations of Ephrem the Syrian and John Chrysostom with the following contents: A treatise on condolences, fols. 1r–5v A treatise on death and the departure of the soul, fols. 6r–14r A treatise on the ones full of hatred, fols. 14v–23v A t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Codex, 160 ff

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