Harvard University, MS Syriac 44

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11200

Shelfmark:

MS Syriac 44

Title:

Occasional services

Author:

Syrian Orthodox Church

Syriac Orthodox Church WIKIDATA

Date:

1829 [i.e., 1517-1518

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

syr

Syriac WIKIDATA

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 31 leaves, bound ; 27 cm.

Note:

The colophon by the scribe Abraham, a priest, gives the date and says the ms. was donated to the church in Ḥesn Kif. The hand looks different from that of the ms., however.
Written in a good bold serto hand, in black and red, 18 lines per page. The leaves are stained and worn at the foredge and corners. The ms. is a fragment. According to the colophon the whole volume also included the service of baptism and processions on dominical feasts.
In a western cloth binding.
In a tray case, 29 cm.
Bookplate of former owner J. Rendel Harris with his number (32). Purchased by the Harvard Semitic Museum in 1905 (accession no. 3970).
Deposited by the Harvard Semitic Museumt, ca. 1959.

Keyword:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Marriage service

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990092495380203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:45443520

Holding Institution:

Harvard University