[Maronite prayer book].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Classical Syriac
  • Syriac
Published/​Created
1794
Description
223 leaves : paper ; 160 x 106 (118 x 75) mm. bound to 160 x 125 mm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts C0744.05 (Garrett Syriac Manuscripts, no. 13) Browse related items Reading Room Request
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      Contained in
      Linking notes
      Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).
      Summary note
      Prayer book used by the Maronite Chruch of Mount Lebanon.
      Notes
      • Ms. codex.
      • Physical description: 14 lines per page; written in serto script in black on laid, watermarked paper. Headings in red; iron gall ink used which is eating through the paper and beginning to show on opposite side. Quire signatures on first and last pages of quire. Fol. 1-13 partially worn away due to water damage, with loss of text. Remainder of ms. heavily damp-stained, but text still legible.
      Binding note
      Pasted boards and fabric; front board has disintegrated with only two fragments remaining. Back board consists of six leaves which have split apart.
      Language note
      Syriac.
      Source acquisition
      Gift ; Robert Garrett, 1942.
      References
      Clemons, J. T. A checklist of Syriac mss in the USA-Canada, Orientalia christiana periodica (1966), XXXII, 503
      In
      Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
      OCLC
      754956864
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