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Record Id:

032-004537680

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ISAD(G)

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Or 4054

Title:

Psalter and Bar-Hebraeus' On perfection

Scope & Content:

This bilingual Syriac-Karshuni volume (arranged in facing columns) contains Psalms, including Psalm 151, Odes and prayers, as well as Bar-Hebraeus On perfection. The Psalms are translated from the Peshitta (cf. Margoliouth, Descriptive, 17).

Contents:

150 Psalms, fols. 1r– 210v

Psalm 151, fol. 211r

The First Song of Moses, fols. 211v–214v

The Second Song of Moses 2, fols. 214v–219v

Gloria/Great Doxology, 219v–221v

The Lord’s Prayer, 222r

The Nicene Creed, fols. 222v–223v

The Song of Hannah, fols. 223v–224r

The Prayer of Habbakuk, fols. 224r–225r

The Prayer of Isaiah, fols. 225r–225v

The Prayer of Jonah, fols. 225v–226r

The Prayer of Azariah, fol. 226r

The Song of the Three Young Men, fol. 226v–227r

Magnificant, fol. 227r–v

Beatitudes, fol. 227v

Metrical discourse (rhymed pairs) by Bar-Hebraeus On perfection, fols. 228r–240r

List, fol. 240r

The manuscript does not contain a colophon, and is presumed to have been copied in the 18th century CE.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, 240 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Syriac

Scripts:

Syriac

Start Date:

1700

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

18th century

Calendar:

Gregorian

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: European paper

Dimensions: 215 mm x 150 mm [170 mm x 110 mm written; each column ca 50 mm].

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil.

Lines per page: 15 lines/ page.

Script: Serṭā

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and text divers in red.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Condition: Good, though folio 234 partly torn.

Marginalia: A few notes.

Catch words: Normally lower left margin of the verso (corresponding to the second column on the following recto).

Other: The Psalms are divided into 15 marməyātā with short comments attributed to Theodore of Mopsuestia (Margoliouth, Descriptive, 17).

Source of Acquisition:

Bought from Mrs. E. Wright on 14 April 1890.

Finding Aids:

Margoliouth, Descriptive List of Syriac and Karshuni MSS. in the British Museum Acquired since 1873 (London: 1899), p. 17.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)