London, BL, Add. 14662
source date: ixth cent.
edition published: 2023-04-21-05:00
language: ar; ar-Syrc; ar-Syrn; cop; de; en; fr; grc
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United Kingdom, London, British Library, Oriental Manuscripts, https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/430, Add. 14,662, London, BL, Add. 14,662, BL Add MS 14662, William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838, 1006, William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838, MVI

[This manuscript contains: An abridged recension of the Geoponica. In total, including sub-sections, this manuscript contains 14 items.]

Syriac

title: An abridged recension of the Geoponica
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).
  title: 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.
  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.
  title: 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
  title: Bk. IV. Of the storing and preserving of the various kinds of fruit
  title: Bk. V. Of the cultivation of the vine
  title: Bk. VI. Of the cultivation of the vine
  title: Bk. VII. Of the cultivation of the vine; how to preserve it from frost, hail, blight, and vermin of all kinds
  title: Bk. VIII. Of the vintage, and the manufacture of wine and vinegar
  title: Bk. IX. Of the grafting of fruit-trees, especially the vine
  title: Bk. X. Of the orchard, and the various sorts of trees to be planted in it
  title: Bk. XI. Of the olive and its oil
  title: Bk. XII. Of vegetables and their cultivation
  title: Bk. XIII. Of bees, neat cattle, horses and asses, sheep, poultry, their diseases, etc.; of catching fish; also of some plants and fruit
  title: Bk. XIV. Of honey and bee-hives; of averting incantations; of the pitching of winejars

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.

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- 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.

This volume is written in a neat, regular hand of the ixth cent.

9th century

Manuscript description based on Wright's Catalogue . abbreviated by the Syriaca.org editors.

William Wright Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838 London 1870 MVI 3:1189