(Q47768)
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Bible
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Syriac bindings
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ca. 17--
17. century
18. century
1600
1799
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Extent: 165 leaves, bound: paper; 23 cm.
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Original binding in full leather over thick oak boards.
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Written in a neat E. Syriac hand with vowels, 21 lines per page, in red and black with occasional rubrics in yellow and simple geometric ornamentation.
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The Psalms have the usual headings ascribed to Theodore of Mopsuestia and the qanone (farcings) ascribed to Mar Aba the Catholikos.
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Ff.162-3 are partly torn away; ff. 164-5 (containing the colophon) are almost all lost.
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In a case, 25 cm.
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"Obtained by Messrs. Smith & Dwight from a Nestorian church in the province of Oormia in Persia A.D. 1831" - note in the hand of Eli Smith pasted inside front board.
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Deposited by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1942.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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