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

Title

Ktābā d-ṣemḥe.
ܟܬܒܐ ܕܨܡܚ̈ܐ

Authors

• Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286
• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• Yaʻqūb ibn Buṭrus ibn shammas Sākā, active 1888, scribe
  ܝܥܩܘܒ ܐܒܢ ܒܛܪܣ ܐܒܢ ܫܡܐܣ ܣܐܟܐ،
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 58
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189397928049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113869197
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_058.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Syriac; Serto with colophon in Arabic and Arabic Garshuni

Origin

Date

1888 (AG 2199)

Summary

A detailed treatise on grammar, in prose, in 4 books: I. Nouns (22 chapters), II. Verbs (nine chapters), III. Particles (four chapters), IV. General (on phonetics and orthography, six chapters).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from f. 10v.
   
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler and Grigory Kessler.
   

Watermark

Tre lune.

Extent

271 leaves : 226 x 168 (163 x 106) mm bound to 238 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard with simple blind-tooled frame of three lines with double lines crossing diagonally through the center; leather clasp; endbands in red and green thread.

Layout

18 long lines, ruled with a misṭarah.

Decoration

Four-barred, stepped cross in red and black on opening leaf verso (f. 1v), simple headpiece in red (f.10v); textblock border-ruled in double red; rubrications in red; occasional red and black designs along bottom margin. One table in red (f. 14r).

Script

Written in Syriac; Serto; catchwords.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.
   

Subjects topical

• Syriac language--Grammar--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Tables (documents)
• Manuscripts, Syriac
• Manuscripts, 19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — Table of contents
• fol. 10v — Ktābā d-ṣemḥe

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Description of manuscript
• Inside front cover — Library donation tag
• fol. 1r — Illuminated cross
• fol. 10v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 14r — Table
• fol. 46r — Example of lower margin decoration