Details

Subject(s)

• Syriac language—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

Giwargís bar Yúḥanān, active 1526 [Browse]

Related name

• ܓܘܪܓܝܣ ܒܪ ܐܪܟܝܕܝܐܩܘܢ ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܡܬܟܢܝ ܒܪ ܫܒܐܪܐ ܡܢ ܐܬܪܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܐ [Browse]
• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College). [Browse]

Former owner

Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of the Gospels, written in canonical order, with rubrics for liturgical readings; table of contents in order of the liturgical year, (f. 1v-6r); short text read in preparation for the Gospel, (f. 7r). After the Gospels, there is a note concerning their composition.

Notes

• Binding: Brown leather over wood; blind stamped frame with central equal-armed cross and diagonally intersecting lines forming a grid; back cover has blind stamped frame and four diagonally intersecting lines; 2 nails on each cover; endbands in red, blue, white.
• Colophon is written in two parallel columns in Syriac on the right and Arabic Garshuni on the left.
• Decoration: Table of contents in grid in orange, yellow, brown (f. 1v-6r); illuminated cross in orange, yellow, brown (f. 6v); illuminated headpiece in red and green (f. 7v, 107r, 280v); illuminated text division marker in green, red, black (f. 176r); rubrications in red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.
• Layout: Written in 22 lines in two columns.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copied in Karpasha, Cyprus by Giwargís bar Yúḥanān, from Syria (f. 357v).
• Script: Written in Syriac and Arabic Garshuni; Serto in black ink.
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler.
• Title from f. 7v.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Syriac (

Script

Serto) and Arabic Garshuni.

Provenance

Formerly owned by J. Rendel Harris.

Cite as

Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections manuscripts RH 27

Place name(s)

Cyprus Karpasha

OCLC

1114306948

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