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

Title

Šḥīmō

Authors

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

Other related names

• Yaʻqūb, Priest, active 1860, former owner
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 30
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189395845049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114306765
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_030.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Chiefly Syriac (

Origin

Date

1794?

Summary

Western rite liturgical texts for each day of the week, begins and ends abruptly; main body of the Šḥīmō in Syriac; additional liturgies and prayers in Arabic Garshuni, including funeral and baptism liturgies, (f. 231r-286r, 289v-293v); Church calendar in Arabic Garshuni for 1794-1843 (f. 286v-289r); some leaves pasted over.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler.
   

Extent

Iv, 303 leaves: 132 x 70 (113 x 60) mm bound to 137 x 80 mm

Foliation

Foliation in pencil added 1-42; 42[a]-154, unnumbered leaf, 155-220, unnumbered leaf, 221-291, 282-293 [= 292-303], upper left recto; catchwords each verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard; blind-stamped frame with diamond-shape inside frame both of twisted rope motif, with four leaf-shapes centered together in the diamond.

Layout

23 long lines.

Decoration

Textblock ruled in double red; headings set off by rules; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in Syriac; Serto and Arabic Garshuni.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the priest Yaʻqūb in 1860 (f. 230v).
   
• Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.
   

Subjects topical

• Liturgies--Texts
• Syriac language--Texts

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Syriac
• Manuscripts, 18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Šḥīmō]
• fol. 231r — [Funeral and baptism liturgies]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Description of manuscript