Add. 14,482
URI: https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/167
Date:
11th or 12th century
Unspecified Syriac script (multiple hands) ܀ Parchment Codex, 66 leaves.
Wright's Subject Classification:
Punctuation
This manuscript contains: A work similar in character to Add. 12,138 and 12,178, but of much smaller dimensions, and confined to the Old Testament. In total, including sub-sections, this manuscript contains 28 items.
Physical Description
Vellum, about 9 5/8 in. by 6 1/2, consisting of 66 leaves, most of which are much stained and torn, especially foll. 1—8, 11, 12, 16, 24—26, 55—59, and 62—66. The quires are signed with letters (e.g. fol. 35 a, ܗ), but several of them are either lost or imperfect. Leaves are wanting at the beginning and end, as well as after foll. 6, 18, 22, and 65. The number of lines in each page varies from 26 to 38.
Hand 1 (major, Unspecified Syriac script):
This manuscript is written in a rather careless, irregular hand of the xith or
xiith cent.
Hand 2 (minor, West Syriac script):
Greek vowels are added throughout (ܰ, ܶ, ܺ, ܳ, , , or %)
; as also the points rukkākh and
kushshāi, in the form of red dots.
Manuscript Contents
Note: Item numbering updated in digital edition.
Item 1 (Fol. 1a): A work similar in character to Add. 12,138 and 12,178, but of much smaller dimensions, and confined to the Old Testament. [defective]
Item 2 (Fol. 1a): The Pentateuch [defective]
Item 3 (Fol. 1a): Genesis [defective]
Note: Imperfect at the beginning.
Item 4 (Fol. 4a): Exodus
Item 5 (Fol. 6b): Leviticus, as far as ch. ix. 9.
Item 6 (Fol. 7a): Numbers [defective]
Note: Imperfect at the beginning.
Item 7 (Fol. 9a): Deuteronomy
Item 8 (Fol. 13a): Joshua
Item 9 (Fol. 15b): Judges [defective]
Note: Of the leaf which contained ch. i. 7—viii. 18, only a small portion
remains.
Item 10 (Fol. 18b): Job [defective]
Note: The leaf which contained ch. v. 22—xv. 34, is lost.
Item 11 (Fol. 21a): First and second Samuel (undivided) [defective]
Note: The leaf which contained 1 Sam. xx.27— xxvi. 25, is lost; and of that which
contained 2 Sam. viii. 1—xvii. 12, only a very small piece is left.
Item 12 (Fol. 26a): First and second Kings (undivided)
Item 13 (Fol. 31a): Isaiah
Item 14 (Fol. 37a): The twelve minor Prophets
Item 15 (Fol. 41b): Jeremiah
Item 16 (Fol. 47a): The Lamentations
Item 17 (Fol. 47b): The two Epistles of Baruch
Item 18 (Fol. 48a): The Epistle of Jeremiah
Item 19 (Fol. 48b): Ezekiel
Item 20 (Fol. 52b): Daniel, including the song of the three holy
Children.
Item 21 (Fol. 54a): Bel and the Dragon
Item 22 (Fol. 54a): Susanna
Item 23 (Fol. 54b): The Song of Songs
Item 24 (Fol. 55a): Ecclesiastes
Item 25 (Fol. 56a): The book of Wisdom
Item 26 (Fol. 58a): The Proverbs of Solomon
Item 27 (Fol. 61a): Ecclesiastieus, or the Wisdom of Jesus the son of
Sirach.
Item 28 (Fol. 65a): The Psalms [defective]
Note: The leaves are wanting that contained Ps. xlii. 7—lxxxvii., and Ps. cix. 29 to
the end.
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