(Q47867)
Statements
Ktaba d-ṣemḥe; d-ʾitaw(hi) ʻal turaṣ mamlla ʾUrhaya
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Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286
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Bindings, Syriac
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1866 [1554].
16. century
1554Gregorian
1554Gregorian
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Extent: 302 leaves, bound : paper and vellum ; 18 cm.
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Title extracted from caption.
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Page area 184 x 122 mm; written area 152 x 85 mm.
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Ff. 1-119, 136-239, 296, 297, 303 are vellum and palimpsest. Ff. 120-135, 240-295, 298-301 are paper. In quires of 8 leaves, numbered 1-49; but quires 13-23 (between ff. 95 and 96) are missing.
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Finished on 29 Kanun I in A.S. 1866 by a scribe from Castra. His name has been erased (colophon f. 302v).
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Written in more than one serto hand, the latest being on the paper folios.
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The under-writing on the vellum leaves (at least 245 x 184 mm) is an estrangela in two columns each 60 mm wide with 10 mm between them. The text quotes the New Testament.
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Binding in oriental wooden boards, with remnants of clasps; rebacked by a western binder.
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In a tray case, 19 cm.
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Bookplate of former owner J. Rendel Harris. The ms. had his number 25.Purchased by the Harvard Semitic Museum in 1905 (accession no. 3963).
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Deposited by the Harvard Semitic Museum, ca. 1959.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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