Harvard University, MS Syriac 4

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10469

Shelfmark:

MS Syriac 4

Title:

The New Testament in the Syriac Peshitta version

Date:

1199.

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

syr

Syriac WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 338 leaves, bound : vellum ; 27 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Grant, Asahel, 1807-1844

Asahel Grant WIKIDATA

Syriac bindings

Note:

A leaf is missing after f. 330.
In a tray case, 30 cm.
Written in a fine estrangela hand with East Syriac vowels, in one column, 26-28 lines per page. This changes to a serto in the middle of f. 333v. Rubrics, subscriptions and other occasional ornaments are in red and green.
Sections of the text are numbered in the margins using the usual double sequence. Lections are not marked. A later hand has added glosses and other unidentified words in small writing in the margins.
Date from colophon, which gives the date 1511 AG ( = 1199/1200) and the hijra date 594 ( = 1198/9).
The colophon also gives the scribe's name as Boktishoʻ and the place of writing the monastery of Rabban Sabrišoʻ in the mountains of Qardu.
There are notes in English translating various rubrics throughout the ms.
"Presented by the Nestorian Patriarch Mar Shimon to Doct. A. Grant and by him to the Library of the A.B.C.F. Missions" - f. 337v.
Oriental binding in full leather over walnut boards, fastened with a leather strap.
ABCFM deposit, ca. 1942.

Keyword:

Syriac bindings

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990092933800203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:44443013

Holding Institution:

Harvard University