Add. 14,662
URI: https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/430
Date:
9th century
Unspecified Syriac script ܀ Parchment Codex, 93 leaves.
Wright's Subject Classification:
Agriculture; Scientific Literature
An abridged recension of the Geoponica
Physical Description
Vellum, about 7 1/4 in. by 5 1/4, consisting of 93 leaves, a few of which are slightly stained and soiled, especially foll. 1, 9, 10, and 93. The quires, signed with letters, were originally 11 in number; but the first is altogether lost, and the last is imperfect. There are from 20 to 31 lines in each page.
Hand 1 (sole, Unspecified Syriac script):
This volume is written in a neat, regular hand of the ixth cent.
Manuscript Contents
Note: Item numbering updated in digital edition.
Item 1 (Fol. 1a): An abridged recension of the Geoponica
[defective]
Notes:
- Bk. I. is wanting.
- The peculiar features have been described by De Lagarde in his "De Geoponicon Versione Syriaca Commentatio," Leipzig, 1855 ; see also his "Gesammelte Abhandlungen," 1866, p. 120 . He has edited the text, with the title "Geoponicon in sermonem Syriacum versorum quae supersunt," Leipzig, 1860 .
- The work is divided into 14 discourses or books (ܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ), each consisting of several heads or chapters (ܪ̈ܝܫܐ).
Item 2 (Fol. 1a): Bk. II. Of the different kinds of soils; the crops suitable for
each; the times of sowing and gathering in; manures and their preparation; etc. [defective]
Notes:
- Slightly imperfect at the beginning, part of the index of contents being lost.
- The first leaf has been restored to the volume since De Lagarde's text was published. See Land, Anecd. Syr., t.i., p. 18 .
Item 3 (Fol. 9b): Bk. III. Of the grafting, pruning, and planting of trees,
especially the vine; calendar of agricultural operations for each month of the year;
of the moon
Item 4 (Fol. 15a): Bk. IV. Of the storing and preserving of the various
kinds of fruit
Item 5 (Fol. 18a): Bk. V. Of the cultivation of the vine
Item 6 (Fol. 20a): Bk. VI. Of the cultivation of the vine
Item 7 (Fol. 25b): Bk. VII. Of the cultivation of the vine; how to preserve
it from frost, hail, blight, and vermin of all kinds
Item 8 (Fol. 30a): Bk. VIII. Of the vintage, and the manufacture of wine
and vinegar
Item 9 (Fol. 36a): Bk. IX. Of the grafting of fruit-trees, especially the
vine
Item 10 (Fol. 45a): Bk. X. Of the orchard, and the various sorts of trees to
be planted in it
Item 11 (Fol. 55b): Bk. XI. Of the olive and its oil
Item 12 (Fol. 67a): Bk. XII. Of vegetables and their cultivation
Item 13 (Fol. 76a): Bk. XIII. Of bees, neat cattle, horses and asses, sheep,
poultry, their diseases, etc.; of catching fish; also of some plants and
fruit
Item 14 (Fol. 92a): Bk. XIV. Of honey and bee-hives; of averting
incantations; of the pitching of winejars [defective]
Note: Imperfect.
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