Harvard University, MS Syriac 170

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10465

Shelfmark:

MS Syriac 170

Title:

Ṣlawata d-ṣapra d-ʻede /; da-ʻbidan l-Abun qadiša ʾElia Qatoliqa tlitaya

Author:

Elia III, Abū Ḥalīm

Nisibis Elias Abū-Ḥalīm III. WIKIDATA

Date:

1879 [i.e. 1567

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

syr

Syriac WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 78 leaves, bound ; 16 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Hall, Isaac H. 1837-1896

Isaac Hollister Hall WIKIDATA

Bindings, Syriac

Note:

Date from colophon, f. 78v. It is given as 20 Kanun I in the year ʾPʻṬ d-Yawn[aye].
Written in a good East Syriac hand in black and red, in one column, 15 lines per column.
Oriental binding in walnut boards. Leather remains covering the back board only.
"Presented to me, May 1892, by Rabbi Baba." Note on a slip, signed by Isaac H. Hall, laid in the ms.
Purchased by the Harvard Semitic Museum in 1900 from the estate of Isaac H. Hall (accession no. 2178).
Semitic Museum deposit, ca. 1959.

Keyword:

Bindings, Syriac

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990092980380203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University