London, BL, Add. 17112
source date: xth or xith 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/741, Add. 17,112, London, BL, Add. 17,112, BL Add MS 17112, William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838, 179, William Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838, CLXXIX

[This manuscript contains: The Psalms, according to the Peshitta version; The Canticles. In total, including sub-sections, this manuscript contains 10 items.]

Syriac

title: The Psalms, according to the Peshitta version
ܫ̣ܠܡ ܠܡ̣ܟܬܒ. ܬܫ̈ܒܚܬܐ. ܕܕܘܝܕ. ܕܗ̇ܘܝܢ. ܒܡܢܝ̣ܢܐ. ܡܐܐ. ܘܚ̈ܡܫܝܢ ܦ̄ܬ : ܕܝܢ ܗ̇ܘܝܢ. ܐܪ̈ܒܥܐ: ܐܠܦ̈ܝܢ. ܘܬܡ̈ܢܡܐܐ. ܘ̈ܬܠܬܝܢ ܘܬܪ̈ܝܢ.
The missing portions are: Ps. i. 1—xxxv. 9, and xlvii. 1—xlix. 8. The headings are different from these in Lee's edition.
The ܡܪ̈ܡܝܬܐ and ܫܘ̈ܒܚܐ are marked by a later hand on the margins.

title: The Canticles
  title: The first song of Moses
  title: The song of Isaiah
  title: The second song of Moses
  title: The song of the blessed Virgin
  title: The "Gloria in excelsis"
  rubric: [ܬܫܒܘܚܬܐ] ܕܠܠܝܐ
  Much mutilated.
  title: A morning hymn
  rubric: ܬܫܒܘܚܬܐ ܕܨ̇ܦܪܐ
  Much mutilated.
  title: The Beatitudes
  Mutilated.
  title: The Nicene Creed
  Imperfect.

Vellum, about 6 ½ in. by 4 3/8, consisting of 65 leaves, many of which are stained and some torn, especially foll. 9, 37, 57, 58, 64, and 65. The quires, signed with letters, were originally nine in number, but the first two are now lost, and ܓ and ܛ are imperfect. There are from 20 to 24 lines in each page.

65 ff.

- Vellum, about 6 ½ in. by 4 3/8, consisting of 65 leaves, many of which are stained and some torn, especially foll. 9, 37, 57, 58, 64, and 65. The quires, signed with letters, were originally nine in number, but the first two are now lost, and ܓ and ܛ are imperfect. There are from 20 to 24 lines in each page.

This manuscript is written in a small and rather inelegant hand of the xth or xith cent.

See additions.

- The Psalms and the first three Canticles have been arranged for part-singing in the choir, by means of the red letters ܐ and ܒ inserted between the lines. This division, as well as that into ܫܘܒ̈ܚܐ and ܡܪ̈ܡܝܬܐ seems to have been made, some time after the manuscript was written, by a monk named Jacob; for, on the margin of fol. 64 b, there is a note, now much effaced and torn, which begins: .......ܝܥܩܘܒ ܚ̇ܛܝܐ ܦܪܫܗ ܟܬܦܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܐ ܘܐܚܪܝܐ ܒ ܟܕ ܟܠ ܡܪܡܝܬܐ "the sinner Jacob divided it (viz. this psalter) into a first part (ܐ) and a second part (ܒ), each marmīthā....."

10th or 11th 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 CLXXIX 1:127