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

Title

Ktaba d-zalgē wšūrara d-šetēsē ʻidtanayetē.
[ܟܬܒܐ ܕܙܠܓ̈ܐ ܘܫܘܪܪܐ ܕܫܬܐܣ̈ܐ ܥܕܬܢܝ̈ܬܐ]

Authors

• Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286
• 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 152
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2529160
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141201164
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_152.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2529160

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Syriac; Serto

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1899?

Summary

Incomplete and lacunose copy of a West Syrian theological treatise in 10 books, from creation to Paradise; missing beginning and end with some pages out of order. This copy includes headings for books 8, 7, 6, 9, and 10, in that order.

Notes

• Manuscript gatherings.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Label: 143a/2 (last page verso at top of page).
   
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler.
   

Extent

47 leaves : 135 x 108 (115 x 80) mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; no catchwords.

Support

Paper

Binding

No boards; gatherings are connected by thick string.

Layout

22 long lines.

Decoration

Small drawings in the lower margin, trimmed (f. 3v, 27v); rubrications in red.

Script

Written in Syriac, vocalized; some notes in Arabic in the lower margin, trimmed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Syriac language--Texts
• Christian literature, Syriac

Genres

• Manuscripts, Syriac
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Gatherings (gathered matter components)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Ktaba d-zalgē wšūrara d-šetēsē ʻidtanayetē].

Decorations

• fol. 47v — Number: 143a/2