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Add. 17,270

URI: https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/1098
Description based on Wright DCV (2:482) Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
Date: ca. 9th century
Unspecified Syriac script ܀ Parchment Codex, 42 leaves.
Wright's Subject Classification: Individual Authors
This manuscript contains: Babaeus, Abraham bar Dāshendād. A Commentary on the two discourses ofMarcus the monkon the Spiritual Law. In total, including sub-sections, this manuscript contains 4 items.

Physical Description

Vellum, about 9 ¾ in. by 6 3/4, consisting of 42 leaves, all more or less soiled, torn, and mutilated. The quires are signed with letters (fol. 21 a, ܝܐ), but their number is quite uncertain, not one being complete. There are from 30 to 33 lines in each page. This manuscript is written in a good, regular hand of about the ixth cent.

Hand 1 (sole, Unspecified Syriac script): This manuscript is written in a good, regular hand of about the ixth cent.

Manuscript Contents

Note: Item numbering updated in digital edition.
Item 1 (Fol. 1a): Babaeus, Abraham bar Dāshendād. A Commentary on the two discourses of Marcus the monk on the Spiritual Law [defective]
 
Title:
ܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܬܪ̈ܝܢ ܕܥܠ ܢܡܘܣܐ ܪܘܚܢܝܐ ܕܡܪܩܘܣ ܝܚܝܕܝܐ
Notes:
  • This text is apparently either that of Babaeus, or that of Abraham bar Dāshendād, more probably the former.
  • Cf. Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. iii., pars 1, pp. 96 and 194
Item 2 (Fol. 1a): First discourse
Item 3 (Fol. 18a): Second discourse
Item 4 (Fol. 38): A survey of the general scope and arrangement of the two discourses, divided into several chapters

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