Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Syriac—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Bookseller

• Maggs Bros [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Scheide 75. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather bindings [Browse]
• Wooden boards [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—Iraq—12th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Decoration: Tail-piece with simple calligraphic ornament; rubrics, and marks to indicate textual divisions.
• Origin: Written, according the the colophon on the last leaf, at the monastery of Mar Joseph at Arvana near Balad (now Eski Mosul) Iraq, on Monday the 25th of the Second Teshrin in the year 1533 of Alexander, and the year 618 of the Arabs (i.e. A.D. 1221).

Binding note

Half-black leather over old wooden boards.

Language note

Syriac;

Script

nestorian script.

Provenance

Early owner, the priest of Hasan, son of Adb al-Masih, who bought it for 5 dinars; presented to Athelstan Riley, Commissioner of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the East in 1884, by Mar Shimou, Patriarch of the East at his village of Kochanes; exhibited, 1889, at an Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition (no. 378) held at Portman Rooms by the Church of England Working Men's Society; obtained from Maggs (Cat. 871, no. 77, 1960), Oct. 4, 1960.

Publications about

The book of governors / Thomas of Marga, edited by E. W. Budge. London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893, v. 2, p. 233.

Cite as

Scheide Library, Princeton University. M 75.

Place name(s)

Iraq.

OCLC

177444533

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