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

Title

Tašʻítā d-Yāwsep.
ܬܫܥܝܬܐ ܕܝܘܣܦ

Authors

• Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373
• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• Marā bar Zāwārā, active 1888, scribe
  ܡܪܐ ܒܪ ܙܘܪܐ،
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 60
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189397933049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113869158
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_060.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Syriac (

Origin

Date

1886

Place

Tel Keppe, Iraq

Summary

The first ten of a cycle of twelve metrical homilies retelling the history of the biblical patriarch Joseph, attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Titles from f. 119v, 128v-129r, 135r.
   
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler and Grigory Kessler.
   

Watermark

Tre lune; FF. Palazzuoli.

Extent

138 leaves : 225 x 165 (200 x 135) mm bound to 226 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bright red leather over pulpboard; blind tooled sets of three crossing diagonal lines and frame; endbands in green and red thread.

Layout

19 long lines; ruled with pencil.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in Syrica; East Syriac.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.
   

Subjects topical

• Bible stories, Syriac--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tašʻítā d-Yāwsep
• fol. 119v — Tašʻítā d-Māry Yúḥanān bar ʼOpemyānos
• fol. 128v — Tedmortā da-ʻbadtāh Mārty Maryam b-zabnā d-Māmon
• fol. 135r — Únítā d-qeṭleh d-Šāʼol w-Yonātān breh

Decorations

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