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

Title

Kāmís.
ܟܡܝܣ

Authors

• Bar Qardāḥe, Khāmīs, active 13th century
  ܒܪ ܩܪܕܚܐ,ܟܡܝܣ‏
• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• Gīwargīs Wardā, active 13th century, attributed name
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 55
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189395858049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114305985
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_055.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Syriac (

Origin

Date

15--?

Summary

Compilation of liturgical hymns, most attributed to Khāmīs bar Qardāḥe; some attributed to Gīwargīs Wardā; missing beginning and end. Leaves are damaged and fragile; extensively repaired. Original leaves are a soft, unburnished paper with barely visible laid lines; replacement pages are machine made paper.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from f. 12r.
   
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler.
   

Extent

198 leaves : 260 x 160 (210 x 110) mm bound to 262 x 180 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Printed purple textile over thin pasteboard; endbands in red and blue chevron pattern.

Layout

23 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in Syriac; East Syriac.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.
   

Subjects topical

• Hymns, Syriac--Early works to 1800
• Syriac language--Texts--Early works to 1800
• Christian literature, Syriac--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Kāmís.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Description of manuscript
• Inside front cover — Library donation tag