MAR JACOB, bishop of Batnæ, Sermons; very imperfect. On vellum of thevithorviitheentury. Quarto. [17,155.] Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ: Sermons, hymns and prayers: in Syriac.
MAR JACOB, ten Sermons (the first, second, and part of the third wanting). On vellum ; written at Edessa, in the year of the Greeks 876 (A.D. 565). Small Quarto. [17,157.] Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ: Sermons, hymns and prayers: in Syriac.
LETTERS of John the monk; imperfect. On vellum; written in the year of the Greeks 892 (A.D. 581). Quarto. [17,169.] John, Monk: Letters, Sermons, etc. in Syriac.: Syriac.
SERMONS, Exhortations and Letters of John the monk; imperfect. On vellum; written in the year of Hijra 158 (A.D. 774-5). Quarto. [17,170.] John, Monk: Letters, Sermons, etc. in Syriac.: Syriac.
A codex of two Syriac texts copied at different times, both of which are imperfect. These are the first and second parts of the works of Aphrates, the contents of which are as follows: Text 1 ff. 2r-11v : An introduction to the works, followed by ܬܣܝܬܐ ܕܣܝܡܢܘܬܐ; ff. 11v-23r : ܬܚܘܝܬܐ ܕܚܘܒܐ; ...
A codex containing Syriac-language materials of various forms, the majority of which relate to theological and ecclesiastical matters. These include extracts from the Old and New Testaments, commentaries on Biblical passages, Church history, and correspondence between Church Fathers. Many of the...
Vie des Saints, a French prose Legendary consisting of the lives of 154 saints
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Contents: The Vie des Saints (Lives of the Saints), a Legendary partially taken from Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend). The translation is attributed to Jehan Beleth (or Jean Belet) (d. c. 1185), liturgist and theologian of Amiens and Paris: the preface to the table of rubric...
Anthology of Tudor courtly verse, mostly attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, with other poems by Henry Howard, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve (‘The Devonshire Manuscript’)
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This manuscript contains an anthology of early-modern Tudor courtly verse from the 1530s, which was compiled by three women who attended the royal court: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Lady Margaret Douglas. The majority of the verses recorded in the volume are attributed to the English politi...
THE LITURGIES of S. Basil, S. Gregory, and S. Cyril, adapted to the use of the Coptic Church in Abyssinia. In Coptic and Arabic. Paper; XVIth cent. Quarto. [Add. 17,725.]
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Liturgies and Martyrologies: Liturgies of SS. Basil, Gregory, and Cyril, adapted to the use of the Abyssinian Church: 16th cent. Liturgies Coptic: Liturgies for the Coptic Church in Abyssinia.: Copt. and Arab.