Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Syriac hymns and prayers.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 151
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515782
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124679425
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_151.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515782

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Syriac

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Summary

Small copy of Syriac prayers and hymns, begins and ends abruptly.

Notes

• Manuscript gatherings.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

26 leaves : 110 x 75 (90 x 60) mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto (1-26); no catchwords.

Support

Paper

Binding

No boards; gatherings are connected by thick string and a small piece of textile at the bottom edge of the spine.

Layout

15 long lines.

Decoration

Two small drawings of crosses (f. 2r, 5r).

Script

Written in Syriac, vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Church of the East--Prayers and devotions
• Hymns, Syriac--Early works to 1800
• Syriac language--Texts--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Gatherings (gathered matter components)
• Manuscripts, Syriac
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, 18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Syriac hymns and prayers].

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Cross
• fol. 5r — Cross