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Title

Zqúrā mlaḥmā d-ʻal šarbā d-haymānútā ʼortodúksāytā d-mettāwde men ʻedtā qātolíqí wa-mšarar b-taḥwyātā d-men ktābay qúdša.̄
ܙܩܘܪܐ ܡܠܚܡܐ ܕܥܠ ܫܪܒܐ ܕܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ ܐܘܪܬܘܕܘܟܣܝܬܐ ܕܡܬܬܘܕܐ ܡܢ ܥܕܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝ ܘܡܫܪܪ ܒܬ̈ܚܘܝܬܐ ܕܡܢ ܟܬ̈ܒܝ ܩܘܕܫܐ

Authors

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

Other related names

• ʼEliyā, Metropolitan of Amid, active 1567, scribe
• Bākūs ibn Isḥāq al-Bākūzī , Arkdhiyāqūn, active 1644, former owner
  باكوس بن اسحاق الباكوزي ،
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner
• Schole Patriarchike (Jerusalem), former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 29
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189395844049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114306711
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_029.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Syriac (

Origin

Date

1567

Place

Diyarbakır, Turkey

Summary

Wide-ranging East Syrian theological treatise in poetic meter; pages are worm damaged in the margins.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2v).
   
• Note in Arabic about the priest Bākús who travelled from Cizre to Jerusalem in 1677; he likely brought this manuscript with him to Jerusalem (f. 164v).
   
• Note from a program at Haverford College dated 12 April 1888 laid in.
   
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler.
   

Extent

164 leaves : 185 x 140 (140 x 100) mm bound to 192 x 150 mm

Foliation

Foliation in ink, upper center verso (10-164); Modern foliation in pencil added, lower left recto. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Black leather over thick pasteboard; blue and white woven textile pastedowns; double-width endbands in dark pink and green chevron pattern; red stained edges.

Layout

Chiefly 17 long lines.

Decoration

Simple headpiece in red and black (f. 2v); rubrications in red; black crosses with red dots punctuate text; simple line designs in black and red at the end of some pages; some marginal comments outlined in red.

Script

Written in Syriac; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the priest Bākūs ibn Isḥāq al-Bākūzī (f. 164v).
   
• Formerly owned by Schole Patriarchike in Jerusalem (stamp f. 2r).
   
• Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.
   

Subjects topical

• Syriac poetry--Early works to 1800
• Syriac literature--Early works to 1800
• Christian literature, Syriac--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts, Syriac
• Manuscripts, 16th century

Licenses

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Zqúrā mlaḥmā d-ʻal šarbā d-haymānútā ʼortodúksāytā d-mettāwde men ʻedtā qātolíqí wa-mšarar b-taḥwyātā d-men ktābay qúdša.̄
• fol. 164v — Note in Arabic

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Description of manuscript
• fol. 2r — Stamp
• fol. 2v — Simple headpiece