Collection ID: 0006 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

ʼEwangelíwān.
ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ

Authors

• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 33
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189395850049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114306167
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_033.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Syriac (

Origin

Date

1638

Place

Ajaltoun, Lebanon

Summary

The four Gospels, text of the first Gospel begins abruptly with Matthew 2:21. Copy is laid out in parallel columns of Syriac (left) and Arabic Garshuni (right). Includes rubrics for liturgical readings and a table of contents in the order of the liturgical year (f. 1r-2v). This copy was made from a manuscript dated 1209 (f. 424v). Ink bleed through on many pages.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 424v).
   
• Fragments of a letter in Arabic (dated 1804) and a liturgical text inserted at the end.
   
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler.
   

Extent

424, i leaves : 302 x 210 (235 x 140) mm bound to 315 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over wood; leather raised bands over spine; endbands in white, red, yellow; nail protruding from fore-edge of top board.

Layout

20 lines in two columns.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; one text division marker in black lines with red and black circles (f. 207r) and one illuminated heading (f. 330v); small decorations in red and black in the bottom margin, approximately every 6 leaves.

Script

Written in Syriac; Serto and Arabic Garshuni.

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Wooden board (materials)
• Manuscripts, Syriac
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Table of contents
• fol. 3r — ʼEwangelíwān.
• fol. 3r — Matthew
• fol. 132r — Mark
• fol. 207r — Luke
• fol. 330v — John

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Manuscript description
• fol. 207r — Text division design
• fol. 330v — Illumination