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WILLIAM WRIGHT, LL.D.,
FORMERLY SIR THOMAS ADAMS PROFESSOR OF ARABIC.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction ....
1. Origin of the Collection
2. S. Indian 8yriac MSS.
Additions and Corrections
Catalogue op Manuscripts
Appendix ....
Supplement
Indexes ....
4. 5. 6.
Index of Manuscripts
List of dated Manuscripts and op dates
TIONED IN the MANUSCRIPTS
General Index, Index of Subject-Matter
thors, etc. . Index of Personal Names . Index of Geographical Names Syriac Index
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INTEODUCTION.
Although the collection of Syriac manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library cannot be said to be remarkable either for its size or in general for its antiquity, it may at least claim to be fairly representative and to possess several manu- scripts of the first importance. It is proposed here to give some account of the formation of this collection, and, in view of the number of Syriac manuscripts of S. Indian origin which it contains, to append a few introductory notes upon the Syriac literature of S. India generally.
It is very doubtful whether the University or any of the Colleges possessed a single Syriac MS. previous to 1682*. In this year died William Bedwell, the father of Cambridge Orientalists, who shares with the Leyden scholar Thomas van Erpe (1584 — 1G25) the honour of opening Arabic literature. In this year, too, the first stimulus to Oriental learning in the
* Thomas James, indeed, in his Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrtgiensis (London, 1600), mentions among the iiss. of Corpus Christi College : " vol. 384, Psalteriiim in lingua et charactere Aramaica," but Aramaica is an error for Armenica. The mistake is repeated in Bernard, Cat. Libr. MSS. Angl. Hibern. (Oxford, 1097), 1652. 385: " Psalterium in lingiia et charactere Aramicis." Le Long's state- ment in Bibl. Sacra (ed. C. F. Boerner, Leipzig, 1709), p. 177 : " Pentateuchus Syriace Cantab. Bibl. Collegii S. Benedicti, cod. 385, num. 1652 eatalogi editi " is also incorrect, as the ms., which Bernard describes in ambiguous terms (1651. 384 : " Liber valde peregrina lingua & ignotis plane charaeteribus scriptus "), is actually in Arabic. The librarian, Mr C. W. Moule, kindly informs me that both MSS. are correctly described in the College catalogue of 1722.
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University was given by the foundation of the Sir Thomas Adams chair of Arabic, and the " matter and store of Bookes to encourage & cherish this new studdy " was provided by the acquisition of Van Erpe's collection of Oriental Mss., the gift of the widow of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. As a full account of the acquisition of the Erpenius mss. and a reprint of early contemporary lists of the collection have been given elsewhere*, I shall merely present some supplementary details which help to ensure the identification of the MSS., illustrate the older methods of enumeration, and in one or two cases refer to Syriac mss. now unfortunately missing.
Erpenius MSS.f
Le Long, Bibliotheca Saari (Leipzig, 1709), dealing with the Peshitta, mentions four of the University Library manuscripts. Of these (1) Psalmi Syriace, cod. 2489, and (2) Prophetae majores & libri Deutero-canonici, etc., cod. 2490, correspond to nos. 50 and 51 of Bernard and Yeates|, and to the mss. now marked Gg. G. 30 and LI. 2. 4 respectively. The remaining two, though mentioned by both Bernard and Hottinger, have since disappeared.
* See Mr E. G. Browne in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July, 1894, pp. 417 — 422, and (for the reprinted University manuscript catalogue in particular) his Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the University of Cambridge (1896), pp. xii— xxii. It is worth noting that Gg. 2. 14, LI. 2. 4, and Gg. 3. 30 which are marked inside [lib.] 38, 75, and 76 respectively, actually occur in that order in the manuscript catalogue.
t The account of the Erpenius mss. which George Dyer {Privileges of the University of Cambridge, 1824, vol. i. p. 597) claims to have given, I have been unable to trace. Montfaucon, Bibliotheca MSS. (Paris, 1739), t. i. p. 672, under the title " Libri Orientales Thomae Erpenii," mentions only six iiss., none of which are Syriac.
X Yeates, as cited below, p. xiii. Both mss. are mentioned by Hottinger, Pramtuarium sive Bibliotheca Orientalis (Heidelberg, 1658), Appendix, pp. 24 sqq.
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Le Long. Hottinoer. Bernabd.
(3) Cod. 2448: Evan- Quatuor Evangelia Ara- 2448. 9. Quatuor Evan- gelia Arabic^ charactere bic6 sed charactere Syro gelia charactere Syro. Syro, e mss. Erpen. in quarto.
(4) Cod. 2449 : Psalmi Liber Psalmorum Ara- 2449. 10. Psalmi Davi- Arabic^ charactere Syro bice sed charactere Syro, dis charactere Syro. Kerschouni. In cujus est liberior et sese diffun-
fronte haec inscripta le- dens plusculum in quarto, guntur: " Versio Psalmo- rum Arabica satis vetusta, nondum typis excusa. Ex collatione enim cum edi- tione Psalterii Arabica Augustini Nebiensis & cum Bibliis Polyglottis constat nee Antiochenam nee Alexandrinam esse translationem. Defecit exemplum ab initio usque ad Ps. xxii. Adjectae sunt ad finem libri Peri- copae variae ex Vet. Test. cum canticis juxta lxx. Interpretes."
The class-mark of the lost Karshuni Gospels is probably Dd. 15. 1 a, which is known to have been missing at all events since 1775. The printed li.st appended to Vossius' funeral oration on Erpenius mentions a MS. : " Quatuor Evangelia Arabice, sed charactere Syro, in 4.' This is no doubt the manuscript in question, and may be the same, also, as the "Testamentum Nouum Arabicum " (A. 7. 1) of the contem- porary University manuscript catalogue (see E. G. Browne, Persian Catalogue, p. xviii).
Of the Karshuni Psalter no trace can now be found, in spite of Le Long's comparatively full description. Hettinger appears to have derived his description of the missing Psalter from Vossius, and we may, in all probability, identify it with A. 7. 22* in the manuscript catalogue. It is therefoie impossible
* Gg. 6. 30, with which A. 7. 22 is doubtfully identified [Peis. Cat., loc. cit.), is Syriac in language as well as in character.
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to identify it with another Karshuni Psalter (LI, 6. 12), which is described under the old class-mark A. 7. 33*, and on the fly-leaf of the MS. itself (see below, p. 1033) in almost identical terms.
No doubt can be attached to the identification of Dd. 10. 9, and Mm. 4. 18 (the lexicons of Ebdochus and Bar Bahliil). The former is mentioned by Bernard (item 2491. 52) and Hottinger, who follow the contemporary lists in writing Elidoc[us] for Ebdochus, an error found on the fly-leaf of the MS. itself (see below, p. 996). As for Mm. 4. 18 it can scarcely be any other MS, of Bar Bahliil that Edmund Castell used in the preparation of his Lexicon ; Hottinger expressly states that it belonged to the collection of Erpenius (see below, p. 1036)f. Finally, there remain three MSS. in the contemporary manuscript catalogue. These can now be identified without much difficulty, although their description in the printed lists of Vossius and Hottinger (couched in identical terms) is somewhat ambiguous :
Vossius and Hottinger. Ms. Catalogue J.
(1) Liber theologicus Syriaca Miscell. etc. Gg. 3. 30, size of leaf in folio. about 10 in. by 7^.
(2) Alius sed niutilus Liber medicinae Syri- Gg. 2. 14, 367 leaves, in quarto. ace mutilus. size of leaf 9^ in. by 6^.
(3) Liber philosophi- Liber philosophicus et Mm. 6. 29, 151 leaves, cus ingens volumen & astrologicus characteribus size of leaf, 6| in. by .5. antiquum ac elegantis- Syriacis.
sime scriptum in quatto (sic). [Bernard : 2493. 54, Liber philosophicus vol- umine ingenti.]
* Persian Catalogue, p. xxi.
t Reference is made to the ms. in Walton's letters to Lightfoot (Lightfoot's works, ed. Pitman, London, 1824, vol. xiii. p. 3.54 sq.). It is probably also the "MS. Syriac Lexicon which Mr Wheelock had with him when he died" (see his letter of the 27th April, 1655). Bernard's description " 2492. 53. Isa bar Bahlul, Dictionarium Syrum & Arabicum " may have misled Gesenius, see Duval, La Littiratitre Syriaqiie {Paris, 1899), p. 303, n. 2.
* Persian Catalogue, pp. xxi. and xvii.
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The identifications in the second and third columns are practically certain, but those of the first and second are con- jectural, and rest chiefly upon the agreement in the use of such terms as ' mutilus ' and ' liber philosophicus.' But Mm. 6. 29 can scarcely be styled an ' ingens volumen ' ; such a description suits Gg. 2. 14, and rather than assume that \vc have here a reference to some MS. now lost, it is preferable to transpose the second and tidrd items in- the first column.
There seem to be no reliable traces of any other missing Erpenius Syriae MS.*, and we may conclude that, of an original nucleus of ten presented to the Library, two have been lost between the years 1708 (date of Le Long, Bihl. Sac.) and 1775 (Dd. 15. 1 a known to be missing). We may at all events trust that the lost MSS. can be spared more readily than, e.g. Gg. 2. 14, which restores some lost Syriae writings of Jacob bar Salibi and Nicolaus Damascenus, or the Psalter, Gg. 6. 80, which Van Erpe seems to have used for his edition of the Psalterf, or LI. 2. 4, a fine Biblical MS. of the xiith cent., one of the three MSS. collated for Walton's Polyglot j. Of the influence of the
* The mention of "Erpenius's Pentateuch with the Prophets, in ms." among the books which Castell left to Bishop Compton (Nichols, Lit. Anecd., vol. iv. p. 28 sq., London, 1812) appears to rest upon a misunderstanding of his testa- ment (cp. Brit. Mus., no. 22905, f. 99: Erpenij Psalterium Sijriacina ; Erpenij N. Testamentum Arab. ; Erpenij pentateuchum ; prophetas majores et minores in Arabic. MSS. Scldeni, MSS. 4"). Castell left no Syriae mss. of his own.
t Erpenius used two mss. ; one was brought from the East by Joannes Borelius, the other "ego quoque inde sum nactus. " No light is thrown on this or on any other of his Syriae mss. by his letters to Casaubon (see especially the originals in the British Museum, Burney 364, pp. 20 sqq.), or by his corre- spondence as published by Houtsma in the Vcrhandelimjen d. Koninklijke Akadcmic (Amsterdam, 1886), pp. 1 — 116. It may be added that Gg. 6. 30 is evidently the Cambridge Syriae Psalter which J. Viccars claims to have used in his Decapla in Psalmos (London, 1655).
X Some of the results of this collation are published in vol. vi. of the Polyglot, where the date of the ms. is erroneously given as 1066 (the mistake is repeated in Cornill's Ezekiel, p. 138). The error is corrected in the Addenda, p. 49. Walton's description of the ms. (Prol. chap, xiii, sect. 8) : "prophetas
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acquisition of the Erpenius MSS. upon Cambridge Oriental studies of the xviith century this is not the place to speak, but I cannot refrain from expressing the conviction that it is largely to this collection of Syriac MSS. — small though it was — that the University owed her Syriac scholars Herbert Thorndyke, Edmund Castell, Thomas Hyde, not to mention William Alabaster and William Beveridge.
Moore MSS.
With the somewhat doubtful exception of the Huntington MSS., to be noticed presently, no other Syriac MSS. were acquired until 1715 when King George I. presented to the University the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely*. Of all Moore's MSS. (nearly 1800 in number) only two appear to have been Syriac. The most important of these is Ff. 2. 15"f", containing the Acts and Epistles, one of the MSS. which Lee consulted in the pre- paration of his N.T, Bernard also mentions among Moore's MSS. " 644, Lexicon Syriacum pro Novo Test. Graece expli- catum, additis locis ubi tales voces occurrnnt, authore (ut videtur) D. Buncle^, 8vo.," and "649, fasciculus chartarum ubi
maiores et libros ointies qui vulgo Apocnjphi dicuntur nobis exhibuit " is hardly accurate.
* See Persian Catalo<iue, p. xxvi.
t Item 9805. 61!) in Bernard's catalogue ; cp. below, p. 100-<. Le Long's statement in Bill. Sacra (Paris, 1723), vol. i. p. 101 (b), appears to have arisen from a confusion with the Oxford ms. Or. 119.
X This is probably the Buncle to whom Castell refers in his Lexicon (Pre/. to edition of 1669) : " ms. Arabicum librorum historicorum Jos. Jud. Sam. mihi a Doctiss. viro D. Buncle benigne communicatum " (see the list of abbreviations ». Be, where "etc." is added after "Sam."). This ms., too, seems to have passed into Moore's possession (cp. Bernard, no. 9825. 639 : " Liber Josuae, .Tudicum, Ruth & Samuelis, arab. 4to."), and is now in the University Library (Kk. 6. 3). Buncle is conceivably the " Bunckley " from whom Moore acquu-ed the Greek ms. LI. 2. 13 (Gregory, Textkritik d. N.T. vol. i. p. 145).
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calendarium Arabicum Uteris Syriacis. 4to." No. (344- (now among the Adversaria, Kk. G. 11) is, as a later hand has remarked on the tly-leaf, really the work of Arnold de Boot (died 1650), and was compiled in the year 1628. A frag- ment of no. 649 may survive in Add, 2057^ (p. 1199 below).
Huntington MSS.
It was probably at the end of the xviith or beginning of the xviiith cent, that the Library became possessed of three MSS. belonging to Robert Huntington (1637— 1701):— Dd. 3. 8, Dd. 10. 10 (= Hunt. 36) and Dd. 15. 2 (= Hunt. 58). Ud. 3. 8^ is the second half of the Ecclesiastical history of Barhebraeus, the first half of which is at the Bodleian (Hunt. 52) ; the remaining two consist of various homilies, etc., in Karshuni. With these exceptions all Huntington's MSS. found their way to Oxford*.
Buchanan Collection.
The next acquisition (probably in the year 1809) was the collection of Oriental MSS. presented by the Rev. Claude Buchanan, the results of his researches in South India in 1806 — 7. A large number of these are Syriac and are distin- guished by the class-mark Oo. l^f*. Thomas Yeates spent two years arranging and collating the Hebrew and Syriac MSS., and published a brief account;]: with short descriptions of the
* How the above three jiss, reached Cambridge is unknown. Mr A. E. Cowley informs me that Hunt. 36, 52, and 58 were in the collection purchased by the Bodleian from Huntington in 1693. Whether Dd. 3. 8^ (the secotid half of the history) was included in the original purchase is uncertain. The eighteen leaves which are described under Dd. 3. 8- should have been bound up with Dd. 3. 81 ; see below, pp. 980, 986.
t The Syriac ms. Add. 272, however, belongs also to this collection.
+ Collation of an Indian copy of the Hebrew Pentateuch with preliminary remarks containing an exact description of the 3IS. and a notice of some others
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style, e.g. "no. 7 (=Oo. 1. 7) ...Mesopotamian," "no. 25 (= Oo. 1. 25) ...Antiochian 4to." A rather fuller list of the Mss. was printed by George Dyer in the Classical Journal, vol. xvii. p. 180 sq., xviii. pp. 95, 251 sq. (1818), reprinted with additions in his Privileges of tlie Univ. of Cambridge," vol. i., pp. 585 sqq. As regards the provenience of these mss. we can scarcely go beyond the printed note in each MS. which states that it was found in one of the Churches of the Syrian Christians of Travancore in S. India in 1806. Buchanan, however, in a letter to Dr Jowett (dated June Gth, 1809) says: "all the old Syrian mss. were found among the Syrian Christians in the interior of Travancore near the mountains. All the printed Syriac books, and a few MSS. of modern date, were found among the Romish-Syrian churches on the sea-shore of Travancore and Cochin." As a matter of fact Oo. 1. 1, 2 is the only Buchanan MS., of whose precise origin we are certain (see p. 1044).
For the rest, the following supplementary details may be useful*. Writing from Sooksagur (24rth Oct., 1805) Buchanan speaks of the " valuable Syriac volumes " which he had met with on his journey thither. From Tranquebar (25th Aug., 1806) he passed to Tanjore, Tritchinopoly, Madeira, Tinnavelly and Ceylon ; Travancore and Trivanduram (19th Oct.). Theuce to Mavelycar, Chinganor (the
(Heh. and Syr.) collected by the Rev. Claudius Buchanan (Cambridge, 1812). Some of the results of Yeates's studies have been worked into his Indian Church History (London, 1818, containing some "genuine and select translations of many original pieces"). His earliest notices appeared in the Christian Observer, vols. ix. X. (1810 — 11) ; for the Buchanan Bible see further, ib. vol. vi. pp. 751 sqq. (1807), vol. xi. pp. 105 sq(i. (1812), and the references on p. 1044 below, second note. There is also a contemporary ms. catalogue of the Buchanan MSS. and printed books in the University Library (Nn. 6. 45, vol. ii.). It contains an account of the contents of the Syriac mss. (pp. 20 — 55), with translations of the subscriptions, etc. The description of the Buchanan Bible alone extends from p. 20 to p. 43. The only Syriac ms. which is omitted is Add. 272.
* See Buchanan's Christian Researches in Asia (London, 1811) and Pearson's Memoirs (below, p. 1044, note). The dates are from the letters themselves. The original spelling is here retained.
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reputed extreme limit of Roman-Catholic influence), Calicheny, Puttencow, Maraman, Colanclierry and Ranniel; writing from the last-mentioned place (12th Nov.) Buchanan says he has been able to obtain some mss. Next follow Nerenam, Mavelycar, Aleppe, and the Romish clnirches of Changanacherry, Pulingunne, Candenad and Udiamper (i.e. Diamper). At Cochin he examined several " Syriac and Syro-Chaldaic mss." Thence he visited Cranganore, Paroor, and Verapoli, where he found a library, many of the books in which were marked "Liber hereticus prohibitus*." Finally at Angamale he found "a good many valuable manusci'ipts."
S.P.C.K. Collection.
The next important acquisition was due to the liberality of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, which, in 1887, presented to the University the MSS. which had been collected for them in 1842 — 4 by the Rev. George Percy Badger in the course of his mission through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan f. In 1886 Professor Wright was asked to examine these MSS., and " on his report of the importance of the collection (embracing as it does a representative series of Nestorian and other Syriac works in good and often old copies such as no traveller of the present day could hope to bring together), and of the advantage which would accrue to scholar- ship by its being made more generally known and accessible, the Society very generously resolved 'that the mss. should be handed over to the University Library of Cambridge as a free
The class-marks of the MSS. described in this catalogue are Adds. 1962 — 2023, and (Karshuni and Arabic MSS.) Adds.
* Cp. Oo. 1. 29, pp. 1108 sq. below.
t See his Neatoriaus and their Rituals, vol. ii. p. 13 (London, 1852). For references to manuscripts cp. further, vol. i. pp. xv, 53, 81, 102, 136 n, 150, 201 sq., 238, 330, 359, 377 sq., vol. ii. pp. 8, 12.
X See the Report of the Library Syndicate in the University Reporter for 25th January, 1887.
B. 0. b
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2024—2026*, 3275—3294. They include a fair number of the works of Barhebraeus (Adds. 2003—2012, 3275—3277), and several other MSS. of considerable importance, e.g. Adds. 1968 (Nest. N.T. of xith cent.), 1971 (Moses bar Kepha on the Gospel of S. John), 1972 (Dionysius bar Salibi on the O.T.), 1999 (works of John Sabha, Dalyaya), 2000 (the " Causa omnium Causarum "), 2023 (Ecclesiastical Canons, xiiith cent.), etc.-f-
Miscellaneous MSS.
As regards the remaining MSS., Adds. 272 and 285*^"^" are of S. Indian origin. For the former, see above, p. xiii, n. f.
Add. 1155 a Neo-Syriac Lexicon, acquired from the Rev. S. S. Mitchell, Rome, 1875.
Add. 1166 from La Ferte's sale (May, 1873).
Add. 1167, once the property of Dr A. Clarke, a MS. of S. Indian origin.
For Add. 1700, containing the Harklensian N.T. and the two Epistles of S. Clement to the Corinthians, see below, p. 16.
For Add. 1852, see below, p. 1122.
Adds. 1854 — 7 Jacobite Liturgical MSS. of S. Indian origin, presented by the late Bishop Speechly (Aug. 1878).
Adds. 1865—6 from the Bragge sale (1876, lots 170 and 284).
Adds. 1882 — 4, Tischendorf fragments (cp. Muhammadan Hand-list, p. 351).
Adds. 1903 and 1904 (the latter is a transcript of a MS. of the Harklensian Gospels), purchased from the widow of Prof. H, Petermann.
* For Adds. 2024— 202G see the Supplement (pp. 1247—1253). For other (Arabic) mss. belonging to this collection, see Mr E. G. Browne, Hand-list of Mvhammadan MSS., nos. 1535—1540 (Adds. 2027—2030).
t These mss. together with Add. 2034 — 2052 resemble generally the more recent acquisitions in the British Museum. See Rev. G. Margoliouth, Descrip- tive List of Syriac and Karshuni MSS. in the British Museum acquired since 1873 (London, 1899), p. iii sq.
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Adds. 2810—2822, purchased through Prof. Wright (1888),
Add. 2879 bought from F. A. S. Stern, Esq. (1886).
Adds. 2880—2, 2884—6 bought at Yabru.l by Dr. W. Wright of Damascus.
Adds. 2887—9, 2903. 2919, 3086, 3087 formerly in the possession of Dr Badger. The last two form part of the W. Robertson Smith donation.
Adds. 2917—18, presented by the Rev. G. Phillips, D.D., President of Queens' College.
Add. 2973 presented by the Rev. G. M. Rae, D.D., formerly of Madras (February, 1887), a Syriac liturgy from S. India.
Add. 2989 purchased from the Rev. Greville T. Chester.
Adds. 3174 — 5 bequeathed by Prof. W. Robertson Smith. (Add. 3174 formerly belonged to Prof Wright; on an earlier possessor of Add. 3175 see p. 1234.) The former is an abridg- ment of Bar 'All, the latter is a fine MS. containing the Syriac translation of a number of S. Basil's homilies.
Adds. 3218, 3224, and 3269 from the late Prof. Bensly ; the last two were formerly in the possession of John Lee of Hartwell*.
Adds. 3.514, 3538, and Or. 11 bought from I. E. Gejou, Paris.
Add. 3745 recently classed. No record of acquisition.
The class-marks 2034 — 2077 inclusive require a word of explanation. The first nineteen (2034 — 2052) are MSS, of E. Syrian origin purchased by Prof Bensly in 1891. Adds. 2053 — 2058, fragments, mostly of modern date, are all of un- known origin, and the remainder (2059 — 2077) are fly-leaves and other fragments from the bindings of MSS. in the S.P.C.K. col lection f.
* See below, pp. 1235 sqq., and cp. Land, Anecdota Sijriaca, t. i. p. 87 sq.
+ The pi'esent writer desires to emphasize this last fact, since it is improb- able that the heterogeneous mass of leaves and fragments through which he has waded have in all cases been sorted successfully. This is one of the many instances in which the loss of Dr Wright's unequalled experience will be seriously felt.
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S. Indian Syriac MSS.
Since it will have been observed that a noteworthy feature of the Cambridge collection is the comparatively large number of Syriac MSS. from S. India, it may be useful to add a few general statements relating to these and other Syriac MSS. of similar origin. The whole subject, it is true, is closely bound up with the history of the Nestorian church in India, but it would be undesirable here to enter into any discussion, however brief, of its origin*.
In the first place it is to be regretted that none of the S. Indian Syriac MSS. are of an age which our knowledge of early Nestorian missionary enterprise would have led us to expect. The oldest specimen of Syriac east of Persia is the famous Chinese and Syriac tablet of the year 781 A.D. discovered at Si-ngan-fu in 1625f. [From China, also, comes the copy of an Estrangela Biblical MS. mentioned by de Sacy {Journal des
* The literature of the subject is extensive, and to some extent uncritical. The following works are among the best : Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo, India Orientalis Chnstiana (Rome, 179-4), W. Germann, Die Kirche der Thomaschristen (Giitersloh, 1877), and especially G. M. Rae, The Syriaii Church in India (Edin- burgh, 1892). For the bibliography in general, see A. C. Burnell, A tentative list of Books and some MSS. relating to the history of the Portuguese in India Proper (privately printed, Mangalore, 1880).
t It is the subject of a monograph by Henri Havret, S. J.: "La Stele Chretienne de Singan-fou," in the Varietes Sinologiques, xii., where full biblio- graphical details are given ; see also Lidzbarski, Nordsemit. Epigr. p. 499 (Weimar, 1898). There is a copy of the inscription in Yule's Book of Ser Marco Polo (2nd ed., London, 1875), vol. ii. p. 21 sqq. For a criticism of Assemani's readings of the Syriac {B. O. t. iii. ii. pp. dxlii. sqq.), see I. H. Hall in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. xiii. pp. Ixxiv. sqq., and in the Amer. Journ. of Sem. Lang. vol. xii., pp. 118 sqq.
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Savants, 1825, p. 670 w.), a description of which he has given in Notices et Extraits des MSS., t. xii. pp. 277—286 (1831).] On the other hand it would appear that the oldest dated Syriac MSS. from S. India are of the xvith cent., viz. the Vatican MSS. (Assemani, C.B.V.), no. xvii. dated a.d. 1510, and nos. ii. — iv. xlv., Ixxxv., Ixxxviii., cxxviii. ranging from 1556 to 1562 A.D.* The earliest dated MSS. in the Cambridge collection are Oo. 1. 7, and Oo. 1. 15 of 1682 and 1691 respectively. Of the six Paris MSS. (Zotenberg, nos. 24, 25, 92, 186, 187 and 280)t the oldest is no. 187, dated 1689. At the Bodleian, Oxford, it would seem that the oldest MSS. are the recently acquired MS. Syr. e. 5 and 6 ; the latter (containing the Pauline Epistles, James, 1 Peter and 1 John) is dated A.D. 1784, the former is of about the same date, perhaps a little laterj. In addition to these, Or. 628 and parts of Or. 623 (Payne Smith, Cat. nos. 200 and 36) belong to the xviiith cent., the rest (Or. 624—626, 631, 655, 666 and 667) are later. There are no S. Indian Syriac MSS. at the British Museum (Add. 21,454, does not belong to this category; see Wright, Gat, p. 1167). Finally, at Leyden there are a few MSS. to be noticed, viz. : de Goeje {Gatalogus Codiciim Orientalium, 1873), nos. mmcccxlix — mmccclii [Cod. 1204, 1212— 1215]§. On the other hand, de Goeje, no. mmcccxlv. [Cod. Heb. Seal. 18], from which Ludwig de Dieu printed the Syriac Apocalypse in 1627, by the Indian scribe
* The energetic bishop Joseph (see Ass. B. 0. t. iii. ii. p. clxv. sq.), the copyist of nos. xlv., Ixxxviii., cxxviii., is probably responsible also for nos. xlvi., Ixii. and Ixv., which are therefore of S. Indian origin also.
t No. 92 ( = Suppl. 12) is cited on the authority of Renan, Hist, des Lang. Sim., 4th ed., p. 288, n. 6.
X I am indebted to Mr A. E. Cowley of the Bodleian Library for the notices of these two mss.
§ The Syriac portion of cod. 1213 — 14 [no. mmcccli.], a native history of the Syrians of Malabar, has been edited by Land, Anecdota, t. i., pp. 24 — 30 (Syriac text), 123—127 (cp. also p. 7 sq., 179 sqq.). Oxford Or. 667, f. 21 sqq. is similar.
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Caspar, is not necessarily of S. Indian origin. Caspar seems to have been simply one of the transcribers employed by the Propaganda*.
As regards the class of literature represented in these MSS. it is needless to say that it is almost wholly Nestorian f. Biblical (including the Apocrypha and lectionaries), liturgical, and homiletical MSS. predominate. Gramniar is represented in Oxf. Or. 667, history in Oxf. Or. 667, and Leyden, 1213—14; canons (of 'Abhd-isho') in Vat. cxxviii. and Oo. 1. 11 (19); there are a few selections of various kinds in Camb. Oo. 1. 11 ; 15, and 2.9. It may be added that Camb. Oo. 1. 9, and Vat. Ixii., Ixxxv. contain services according to the usage of Mosul.
If, now, we may assume that Cosmas (first half of the sixth cent.), is the earliest reliable witness for the existence of the Syrian church in S. India;):, it would appear at first sight remarkable that the oldest MS. of known date (Vat. xvii., A.D. 1510) is almost exactly a thousand years later. A pos- sible explanation, however, lies at hand.
The fortunes of S. Indian Syriac literature are bound up with the establishment of Roman Catholicism in that country, the foundation of which was probably laid in the missionary journey of Jordanus in the first half of the fourteenth century§. Papal authority was at the height of its power in the xvith
* On this scribe see genei'ally Uhlius, Thesauri Epistolici Lacroziani, t. i. , p. 19 sq. (Leipzig, 1742) ; Michaelis, Iiitrod. to the N. T. (translated by Marsh), vol. ii., pt. 2, p. 560 sq. ; Tregelles, Introduction, p. 28 (corrected by Le Long, Bibl. Sac. t. i., p. 191) ; cp. also the ms. in the Huuterian Library, Glasgow, cited by T. H. Weir, [Journ. Roy. As. Soc, 1899, p. 755). A Caspar of Cyprus, a Maronite, was the copyist of Vat. no. cc, and is thus described by Assemani : "unus e primis collegii Maron. in Urbe a Gregorio XIII. Pont. Max. anno 1584 fundati alumnis."
t Among the Jacobite mss. are the Oxford, Or. G26, and a few in the Cam- bridge collection, cp. below, p. xxi. They are wholly biblical and liturgical.
X G. M. Eae. oj). cit., pp. 114—118.
§ Op. Cit., pp. 187—194.
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cent, and culminated in the Synod of Diamper in 1599, Thence- forth it gradually waned, and in 1653 the Syrians revolted, some returning to their original rites, whilst others remained Romish-Syrians. Ten years later the Dutch gained supremacy; and finally in 1665 the Syrian community acknowledged as their head Gregory, the Jacobite metropolitan of Jerusalem. This year constitutes the terminus a quo for the arrival in India of such Cambridge Jacobite MSS. as Oo. 1.1,2; Go. 1.13; and Add. 272. The Synod of 1599, to which we have just re- ferred, is of more importance for our present purpose inasmuch as it provides a criterion for undated Nestorian MSS., and at the same time probably accounts for the poverty of the Indian Syriac literature and the absence of really old MSS.
The main object of the Synod of Diamper* was to stamp out Nestorianism and enforce Roman Catholicism. With this object a careful examination was made of all the extant writings, and those which taught the heresy of Nestorius, or spoke against the Virgin, or suggested an early rivalry between S. Peter and S. Thomas (the patron saint of the S. Indian Syrians), or were opposed in any way whatsoever to the teach- ing of Rome were condemned to be burnt. This was actually done at Angamale, Chinganor, and elsewhere. Exceptions were made in the case of the Bible (see below, p. xxiii), and such office-books as the Hudhra, Gazza, etc., which were ordered to be purged by the erasure of all Nestorian names and by being amended generally in accordance with the edicts of the Synodf.
* On the edicts of the Synod of Diamper (Udiamper) see in addition to the works cited above, page xviii, note *, Geddes, History of the Church of Malabar (London, 1694); J. F. Raulin, Historia Ecclesia MaUibaricce (Rome, 1745); and G. B. Howard, The Christians of S. Thomas and their Liturgies (Oxford, 1804), pp. 36 sqq. Howard's ms. of the liturgies is now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. Syr. e. 5.
t For illustrations of the alterations see Geddes, op. cit., pp. 151, 189, 231 sqq., 362. Examples of these erasures are to be found in Oo. 1. 22.
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Fortunately the edicts of the Synod give us some idea of the writings which were burnt*. Among them are men- tioned :
The infancy of our Saviour, or the History of our Ladyf ; the Book of John Barialdon (Bar Khaldon)J; the Book of the Fathers^; the Procession of the Holy Spirit; the Book of the Pearl ('Abhd-isho') ; Maclamatas (i.e. Makamat, 'Abhd-isho''s Book of Paradise); a Life of Abba Isaiah (which anathematized Cyril of Alexandria) ; the Book of Synods (with a forged letter of Pope Caius); the Book of Timothy the Patriarch||; the Letter which came down from Heaven, called also the Letter of the Lord's Dayll ; the Uguard or " Rose " (the Warda ?) ; the Camiz (the Khdmls ?) ; an exposition of the Go.spels wherein it is stated that 1 John and James are not the work of the Apostles whose names they bear and are therefore uncanonical**; the Book of Rabban Hormizd the Martyr; the Letter of Mar Narsai (against the doctrine that Mary is the Mother of God); a book after the manner of the Flos Sanctorum, containing the lives of over a hundred Nestorians — many of them current separately ; and astrological and kindred works, including the Book of Lots, and one called Parsimanf f.
It may be ndded that other allusions to the literature of the Syrians are made by Ramusio (ISSi) and Paulinas a S. Bartholomaeo
* It is doubtful whether the list referred to in Uhlius, op. cit., t. iii., p. 203 was derived from any other source.
t Cp. Uhlius, 01). cit., t. iii., p. 128 sq.
X Perhaps the j3y»«OI3S ^3 ^iSA < see Ass. B. O. t. iii. i. p. 265 sq.
§ Cp. Germaun, op. cit., p. 353 note. A fragment has survived in Go. 1. 29, see below, p. 1099 sq.
II Cp. perhaps the Synodiis Timothei Patriarchae,A.ss. C.B.V., no. cxxviii. (vii).
TI Cp. p. 717 below.
** According to La Croze, the work of Theodore of Mopsuestia. ft Cp. Whitehouse, Lingerings of Light in a Dark Land (London, 1873), p. 114. There are fragments of an astrological character in Oo. 1. 29.
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(1792). The former speaks of accounts of the martyrdom of S. Thomas which the Syrian Christians of S. Thomas in his day preserved with great veneration. The statements of Paulinas may be given in full* : Circumfertur pariter in ecclesiis Malabarensibus Chaldaicus liber inscriptus 23<7fOk3», sen explicatio in IV. Uvanf/elia auctore Jesii Ddda episco[)o Asoriensi Maronita, co(i. MS. Item brevis explicatio Genesis ad mentem S. Dionysii, qui videtur esse codex apocryphus f ; alius liber, qui inscribitur ; Joannis episcopi ex ord. S. Dominici gram-
matica contra Bar-Ksha Abraham Jacobitara Tractatus de Sacra-
mentis Syro-Chaldaicus Petri de Comis Episcopi Malacensisl sine loco et anno ; Sacra Scriptura manuscripta ; et dictionarium Syro- Chaldaicum.
As regards Biblical MSS. the Synod noticed the omission of Esther, Tobit, Wisdom, 2 Peter, 2, 3 John, Jude, and the Apocalypse; also of John viii. 1 — 11. In Matt. vi. 13 6 it noticed the addition of the Doxology, in Luke x. the reading ' seventy ' instead of ' seventy-two,' and the omission of the negative in Lk. vi. 35. It referred, moreover, to the reading 'God' for ' Christ ' in Acts xx. 28, and the reverse in 1 John iii. 16, to the Nestorian omissions in 1 John iv. 3 and v. 7, and to the reading p7-aeter Deum in Heb. ii. 9. Francis Roz, to whom was entrusted the task of perusing and correcting the MSS., was ordered to translate into Syriac the missing books (as well as the Athanasian creed)§. The corrections were doubtless attended to — at all events Buchanan found MSS. with correc- tions " in black ink and of modern appearance though made in
* India Orientalis Christiana, p. 255 (Rome, 1794).
t Possibly survives in Oo. 1. 29 (xix.), p. 1106 below.
X For the uame, cp. perhaps Ass. C. B. V., t. iii., no. clix. (p. 314 [xxvii.]).
§ This Francis is probably not the UKDOOkA^iQMd^ who translated from Latin into Syriac a jLlOjaS ?q7^V (Zotenberg, no. 186). The Athanasian
Creed is found in Oo. 1. 29 (see p. 1104), Esther in Oo. 1. 11 (10), and the Apocalypse in Oo. 1. 11 (7, 17) ; 21 (2).
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1599*," and similar traces of such alterations are to be seen in the undated Mss. Oo. 1. 17 (p. 1078) and Oo. 1. 25 (p. 1084)t.
The criteria which tiie edicts of the Synod of Diamper afford are naturally to be used only with caution. Some MSS. may have escaped scrutiny — such, for example, was an un- trustworthy tradition regarding the Buchanan Bible itself J — or being discovered later, may have been left untouched for reasons we can only conjecture^. Nor must we forget the likelihood of the immigration at various times of Nestorian MSS. of all a.ges||.
Older than the oldest dated MS., the best specimen of S. Indian Syriac epigraphy is undoubtedly the old cross in a church at Cottayam (Kottayam) in north Travancore. The cross, which is supposed to belong to the xth century, bears an inscription in Pahlavi and Syriac : the Syriac consists simply of the first half of Gal. vi. 14, whilst the Pahlavi has been rendered (by Burnell) : " He who is the true Messiah and God above and Holy GhostlT." From an epigraphical point of view a particularly striking approximation to this style is seen in Oo. 1. 8, which, — whatever be the true date of the Cottayam
* 1 John V. 7 is mentioned in particular (Christian Obsewer, vol. vi., p. 658 sq. [1807]).
t On the other hand, see Lee's Prolegomena to Bagster's Polyglot, § 4, n. 1.
J Buchanan loc. cit. See p. 1044 below.
§ The gradual waning of the authority of the Synod would certainly be one reason.
II According to the native history of the Syrians the Nestorian bishop Mar Abraham, who was sent by S. Alea to Cochin in 1545, brought with him a quantity of writings (Whitehouse, op. cit., p. 304 sq.).
IT The inscription is reproduced by E. W. West in Epigraphica Indica, vol. iv. pt. 4, facing p. 174 (June, 1896). See A. C. Burnell, On some Pahlavi Inscriptions in S. India (Mangalore, 1873), reprinted with additions in the Indian Antiqnanj, vol. iii. pp. 308 — 316 (1874), see also ib. iv. 153 sqq., 181 sqq., 311 sqq. (1875), vol. v. pp. 25 sq. (1876). Reference may be made further to Rae, op. cit., pp. 120 sqq.
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inscription — can scarcely be earlier than the xviith century. To a very similar type, also, belongs Oo. 1. 7, which is dated 1682.
Apart from the characteristic minute style in Oo. 1. 18, -iO, 42, and 43, and the approximation to the Chaldean type in Oo. 1. 10, 17, etc., the only other feature which calls for remark is the marked Indian hand in such MSS. as Oo. 1. 9, 11, 21, 27, 31, 39, and Add. 285-«-3^*. Add. 285^«, in fact, consists wholly of Malayalim written in Syriac (Nestorian) characters"!" and is one of the best examples of this script;]:. See further the references in the General Index, s.v., " Syriac-Malayalim," and, for other specimens, Zotenberg, nos. 186 sq., and Leyden, cod. 1215 (facsimile in Land Anecdota, t. i., tab. b. 11, re- produced by Lenormant, Essai sur la Propagation de VAlph. Phen., t. ii., pi. iv., no. 4). The extra letters required are taken, according to Burnell§, from the Malayalim 'Arya character; " a few tombstones and similar relics in Travancore shew that the Syriac Malayalim alphabet is of recent construction, and that the Syrians originally used only the Vatteluttu character." Some of the extra letters in use are given by Land in the Z. D. M. G., vol. xxii. (1868), tab. facing p. 548, cp. p. 551 1|, and by Call Faulmann, Das Buck der Schrift (Vienna, 1888), p. 87,
* To these I would add the small fragment marked Add. 2055^. Specimens of S. Indian styles will be found in Adler, N. T. Vers. Stjr. (1789), Tab. in. (of Vat. xvii.), Payne Smith, Cat. (of Oxf. Or. 625), Land, Anecdota, t. i. tab. b 12 (of Leyden cod. 1213), and Silvestre, Paleogi: Univ. (1841), t. i. xvi. no. 6 (of a Paris MS.).
t It would seem that Malayalim is written only occasionally in Jacobite Syriac, cp. e.g. Add. 2973 (a ms. of the nineteenth century.). See below, p. 1212 (1. 4 from foot), where the attempt has been made to reproduce some of the characters.
X Similarly the Mappilas of S. W. India used a modified form of the Arabic alphabet (Burnell, Specimens of S. Indian Dialects, ii. ; Mangalore, 1873).
§ Elements of S. Indian Palaeography (London, 1878), p. 58.
II Cp. also Lenormant, op. cit., p. 40 sq., and pi. vi., and Land, Anecdota, t. i. pp. 89, 91.
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s. " Malabarisch-Syrisch." A fuller list appears to be a de- sideratuni.
The main portion of the present catalogue (pp. 1 — 975) is the work of the late Professor Wright, who, after the ac- quisition of the collection presented by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, immediately proceeded in accordance with the report of the Library Syndicate*, and the Grace of the Senate (Jan. 27th, 1887), to prepare a full catalogue of them. It would appear to have been his inten- tion to describe all the remaining MSS. separately in an Appendix, but his lamented death in 1889 prevented the completion of liis task. Further delay was caused by the deaths of Professor Bensly and Professor W. Robertson Smith, both of whom were keenly interested in the catalogue. Mean- while, Professor Bevan undertook to superintend the printing of Professor Wright's manuscript. Whenever an error was suspected he compared Professor Wright's quotations with the MSS. in the Library, adding a sic where it seemed desirable. Some obvious slips of the pen were corrected ; in a very few cases where he could not venture to make any alteration, he added a footnote (signed with his initials A. A. B.).
Before publishing Professor Wright's manuscript the Library Syndicate decided that an Appendix should be added dealing more briefly with the MSS. which he had not described. These included the older class-marks, a number of MSS. acquired after Professor Wright's death, and three Karshuni MSS. of the S. P. C. K. collection which had been overlooked f. When, on the invitation of the Syndicate, I began the preparation of the Appendix in February, 1900, I found that little had been done
* See above, p. xv.
t They are described in a Supplement to the Appendix.
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for them. A small number, it is true, had been collated, and many of them showed evident signs of having been carefully perused : the pages or leaves had often been numbered, or slips inserted bearing the title of the MS., and, in most of the Buchanan MSS., lists of contents had been drawn up. But no trace was to be found of any formal catalogue.
In describing the MSS. I have endeavoured to the best of my ability to conform to Professor Wright's recognized methods, but that scholar's unrivalled acquaintance with Syriac literature, and his unique knowledge of the palaeographical and other technical details of Syriac MSS. will be regretfully missed*. As a rule I have (perhaps unnecessarily) reproduced the individual idiosyncrasies of scribes as regards marks of interpunction, the plural points, and the Nestorian ligature 2s- Here and there I have been able to present specimen collations (e.g., pp. 988 [17], 1084, 1126 sq., 1132, 1193 sq., 1202, 1241). I regret that time has not permitted me to do this more regularly.
From what has been said concerning the genesis of this catalogue it will be intelligible why such MSS. as Adds. 1855 — 57, 2919, are dealt with in the Appendix, whilst Adds. 1854, 2918, which Professor Wright had already described, are in the body of the work. In order to remedy this defect a list of the MSS. has been drawn up (vol. ii. pp. 1255 sqq.), which, in view of the fact that the MSS in the Appendix, in order to agree with the main portion of the catalogue, had to be arranged in numerical sequence, aims also at presenting a general view of their contents. For details, reference should of course be made to the General Index.
* The following is a list of the more important mss. or portions of mss., which have not yet been identified: Dd. 15. 2 (vii.), p. 1004; Go. 1. 29 (x. xiii. xxi.); Add. 2053; Add. 2054; Add. 20565; Add. 3175 (26), p. 1226; Add. 3745.
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In conclusion it is my pleasant duty to acknowledge the courtesy of Professor R K. Douglas, Keeper of the Depart- ment of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, in allowing me to study the Cambridge manuscripts at the British Museum, a privilege which alone made it possible for me to undertake this work. I desire, also, to express my sincerest thanks to those scholars who have allowed me to consult them, in particular, to Mr A. G. Ellis, Superintendent of the Oriental Students' Room, British Museum, and to others whose services are acknowledged in their proper place. To the University Librarian, Mr Jenkinson, to Mr Norman M^'Lean, and to Professor Bevan, I am indebted in many ways for help and advice ; they have also read this Introduction and favoured me with suggestions and informati(m. I should mention, however, that the general responsibility for the statements it contains rests with me alone.
The printers and readers of the Pitt Press have, as usual, greatly lessened the labour of proof-reading, but some misprints which were overlooked will be found among the Additions and Corrections (pp. xxix, xxx). A few inconsistent transliterations, which, however, will not cause any difficulty, I have allowed to stand.
STANLEY A. COOK.
London,
October, 1901.
*^* The palimpsest fragments in the Taylor-Schechter collection, containing Palestinian Syriac Texts, have been recently described and edited under that title by Mrs A. S. Lewis and Mrs M. D. Gibson (4to, London, 1900).
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CATALOGUE
OF
SYEIAC MANUSCRIPTS.
Add. 272
[See Appendix.]
Add. 616
Paper, about 6| in. by 4| ; 109 leaves, some of which are slightly soiled and torn, but have been carefully mended ; quires, signed with letters, originally 12 in number, of 10 leaves (the last has only 9) ; 21 lines in a page. This manuscript is beautifully written in a regular Nestorian cursive, and dated A.D. 1461. Foil. 11, 12, 19, 20, 31 and 40, are supplies of the xvith cent., in a Jacobite cursive; and ff. 1 — 10, which take the place of two quires of the original manuscript, are also in a Jacobite cursive, of the xix th cent.
The Pardaisd da-'Edken of 'Abhd-isho', metropolitan of Sauba (Nisibis) and Armenia, originally containing the usual 50 poems, with the commentary added by the author in A. Gr. 1627 = A.D. 1316. The writer of the second supplement has, however, omitted the first poem, merely remarking on f. 4 h.
Title, f. 1 h. |oAd >oAnV)X ^i-i; ■ V) ^jibj (n\i.»^ ^ B. C. 1
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The colophon, f. 108 b, informs us that this copy was finished, in the convent of Mar Sabhr-isho' called Beth Kiika, on the great Zabh, on the 16th Heziran A. Gr. 1772 = A.i). 1461. The scribe does not give his name.
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At the beginning of the book are inserted two leaves con- taining an attempt at describing the contents of the volume by one N. L. B. (according to a pencil note " Nathan Lazarus Benmohel", formerly a teacher of Hebrew in Trinity College, Dublin), dated "April 19, 1853". N. L. B. translates the words ^^O .Q-xlDQ'r£i iOj-D, quoted above, by "Prooemium showing the cause and aim of his cup, written by Mar Edrena" !
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[New-Syriac and English lexicon. See Appendix.]
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Paper, about 5f in. by 3f ; 148 leaves, of which the first and last are blank ; 15 quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the 8th, which has only 8 ; 17 lines. Neatly written in a Jacobite cursive, with mixed punctuation, and dated A.D. 1606.
1. The Psalter, arranged for public service. The fifteen
lA-i-Ln'^Lo are marked in the text, the ]j.Ki:iQ_» on the margins ; and each verse is divided by 01 for the two divisions of the choir. Title, f 3 h,
»^^jdA!jd wjZa^j.^5 ]j3?o\\ \S\ l^i) {sic) ^^\'J^ ^_,p p (Tici^o |j.i:uo I^IiLd j«»055 liialDVlJoj I^Ad ^cjoAd]? ]j]
The apocryphal Ps. cli. is appended, f. 136 h.
2. The Canticles, viz. the first song of Moses, Exod. xv. 1 — 21, f. 137 a ; the song of Isaiah, ch. xlii. 10 — 13 and xlv. 8, f. 138 h ; and the second song of Moses, Deut. xxxii. 1 — 43, f. 139 a.
3. A discourse by Mar Ephraim on humility, love of learn- ing, etc., f. 142 h,
^^<^\V) Ul^-rSa] ^j^Lo Xm.^r^'i \l'^\^ s^oLzxlO "|-L«_3 ^oZ
]^3 "jZoji-Lbo "jZoj-.Z^lDO IZaa^iiLb ^i. oA^]? ; ]Za
{sic) ]i t^Vn . AinjoJO ]j.j.ki\Zo
1—2
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It is alphabetical, each letter having two verses ; e.g.
•:• ]; 1 an "loou? 1 J^ ]J
The colophon, f. 146 b, states that this little volume was finished on the 3rd Nisan A. Gr. 1917 =a.d. 1G06 in the convent of Mar Abhhai, called the convent of the Ladders, by the priest Micha, son of the carpenter Daulat-shah, from the place called in Armenian Duanekh, that is, the convent of Abu Ghalib, in the north of Cappadocia, in the province of Malatia, in the dis- trict of Gargaria.
"jioiDlibj jjoi \^io (sic) ^^-^Lc^jZlo . I N^oA^lo ^jAcd"! ^ a!l, ♦ r-f^'^ ^^ v'?Q^ U-iiJo joXlD ,..0)) ]>. . ^vn; "jAkij-D 5A^ li'dj^j U^'l ^Q-L^ t<n\» .^s-co? "|5cn4ciUa\t Aij_6 .ot^? lAXZ ^m ■ i? U^^lr^ y.^^") Z\i ^^ l^^yTi V*jjpASDj w_»_k»j::)] w^pk)? K»r^ Ir-.^ r-^-^ ^A2k ja-KK^ri yjonn iiiAlD? 4^ P W? -""-jI ^r^l^ .lA^nrr?
.^\.. CL05 l^j? Aj^o] j^jIoj U-lk))] ]i aNn ]_.tjQAk)>
• I ■ * • X VJ
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Fol. 3 a is occupied by the figure of a cross in the usual style of interlaced ornament.
On fol. 2 a there is written in Italian, " Psalterio Syriaco manuscritto", and below in French, " Les pseaumes de David en Siriaque, d'une tres belle escriture". Over these inscriptions has been pasted a bit of paper with the words "Pseaumes de David en Syriaque".
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Paper, about Sin. by 5|; 198 leaves. The quires, signed with letters as far as O, were originally 15 in number, of 12 leaves, to which a quire of 10 leaves has been prefixed, and another of 8 leaves appended ; there are also 3 blank unnum- bered leaves at the beginning and 2 at the end ; the pages are numbered throughout the 15 original quires ; 21 lines in a page. Written in a neat regular Nestorian hand of the xviii th cent.
I. The four Gospels in the Peshitta version, viz.
1. S. Matthew, f. 11 6.
2. S. Mark, f. 58 b.
3. S. Luke, f. 90 a.
4. S. John, f. 144 a.
The capitula are numbered separately in each gospel and continuously throughout the four ; e.g. f. 182 6, v*ig .^ .m
II. The Song of Songs, f. 185 b,
The enumeration of the capitula is carried on through this book as before, e.g. f. 189 b, o^ .»*•. — .
On ff. 191 b — 193 b another hand has written part of a ser- vice for the Passion of our Lord, beginning :
isbo^i i^"^ ;,^^3 4^Ai^ otISas ;-%:i>S>,\3 ^6i:oi
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On ff. 7 6 and 8 a are three rudely and incorrectly written pieces, which appear to be charms. The second runs thus :
^ob ;bk^ o^^jbo^ ;Ib.bo w.Om ^libo ;'auiQ>2 ;a^
On f, 6 i is this entry : — Baker, Cat. 135. n° 882 311. 1873
This is evidently if 246 in the Catalogue of the MSS. of Dr. A. Clarke (1835) and if 14 in the Cat. of Baynes & Son (1836) luhere it is pi^iced 7£. 7.
The manuscript came therefore from the Christians of S. Thomas in Southern India, and is labelled on the back "Evang. Chald. Malab. 246 ".
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Vellum, about 9^ in. by 6^; 216 leaves; the quires, signed with letters and having a running title on the last leaf of each and the first leaf of the next, are 21 in number, of 10 leaves, except the last, which has only 6, two blank leaves at the end having been cut away ; 2 columns of from 36 to 41 lines. Foil. 1 — 3, 215, and 216 are slightly mutilated, and the outer margin of ff. 43 and 91 has been cut off Leaves are wanting after fif. 1 and 7, in the Index of Lessons. The writing is a neat regular Jacobite cursive, and the volume is dated A. Gr. 1481 = A.D. 1170.
The whole New Testament according to the Harklensian version, with one notable addition, which will be noticed in its
proper place. To each book is prefixed a list of the ((Isld or capitula, which are also noted on the margins of each book
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separately. The lessons, p_»V-0, are marked in each Gospel separately ; in the Acts and Apostolic Epistles they run on con- tinuously, and similarly in the Pauline Epistles.
I. The four Gospels, viz.
1. S. Matthew f. 11 6.
2. S. Mark, f. 35 a.
3. S. Luke, f. 56 h.
4. S. John, f. 77 a.
On f. 96 h we find the following account of this version of the Gospels from the pen of Thomas of Harkel.
IZ] I .. m "JZoAjZlkk^ |.»^5ani\ l^ja^ ]\ aX ^ . n • g^Z]? .]Aj_jjio ^.nnV?n .^ |k)_,n^ .... I^i ]) s^\n ■ '^o .]->-3o,Q.Vn >£0o3pi.mn^? IjfnSjiZo "JlkuLDZj ]L\ •*-)
.^5A^ ^5 ^^^ijZ] .• IAxjjIdj C7i\^5 ^o n en I ^1 1A\Z ^ .]j.:iCDlD ]lDolZ ^jA^j IZj-u^ro IZo-a.-.^^ ■ n
: oj-uJo^jI? \LM^r^ \r-^r^ .]A^j 1Aj_._,1d V.?, imn.1^? IAjJjZoLc "|ZoAjA>^ ^j_Lrbo ^j-Lcujjj ^ajoi l}j..yj_rb50
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(JLD ^5 Ul*^L]o ^TiZ'^Z] . . . ;4V)\o v&,V)\ V«^-^ ioAi?
CrOi^J Mi2L»0 ^--.;m\0 ]|Lq1^Z> IZ 1 ■ n .];_i^l) IADOj^
jlkiL ^5 ].Sr?n? .... viojl? ]jQ_i_guOyjl >coo?, 1 mn^? aij_.y^ .• w^oiOfiixi ^^j . > i \n\ v»;g^V>\ y-^ZuLj och .-vj^^
.^-lIdI CTLliD? ]^iCL^',l^ loAjtJ ,Ad C7L05 .."l^jZo \S]^
There is an Arabic translation of this note on the outer and lower margins of this page.
II. A series of lessons for the Passion of our Lord, com- piled from the four Gospels, f. 96 h.
1. The Eve of the Friday of the Crucifixion, f. 96 6,
2. The first station of the Night, f. 97 a, .lZa.£i-i_£)l? lA^ojJ^5 ."U-j^j "U.1.1^5 ]j.LDyr5 |Sdq-D5 ]j_.;-D
3. The second station, f. 98 a,
4. The third station, f 98 b,
.■jZo-a-i-Dij IZuCDO^:^? ] i \\? IZl^Zj ILdqjdj U-.i-D
5. The morning of the Friday of the Crucifixion, f. 99 6,
."jZosu-oi? IZ^j "JZlQOA? li^tj? U-»i-o
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6. The third hour of the Friday, f. 100 h,
7. The Midday of Friday, f 101 a,
8. The ninth hour of the Friday, f 102 6,
9. The Adoration of the Cross, f. 102 h,
10. The Eve of the Saturday of Annunciation, f. 103 a,
."jZinro? lAin^j l*-^5? ]j-.;-0 Subscription, f. 103 a,
(AtDO;^? ILdCUj : 1 ' ^ yi ^ ^-jAoI Ij.-»i^ QIqA^
III. The Acts of the Apostles, f. 103 h. The index of ||\g^ n being unusually long, the text begins on f 106 h,
IV. To the Acts are appended the Apostolical Epistles, viz.
1. The Epistle of S. James, f. 132 a.
2. The first Epistle of S. Peter, f. 134 6.
3. The second Epistle of S. Peter, f. 137 a.
4. The first Epistle of S. John, f. 138 h.
5. The second Epistle of S. John, f. 141 a.
6. The third Epistle of S. John, f 141 h.
7. The Epistle of S. Jude, f. 141 6.
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Subscription, f. 142 b,
]_K>_K.t^ ^Ld ^? ^AdZ] . . . wijQji >coo o . \6Llo U'^o )Ldo1Z> 111 ,. m ]j_L42inj«^ ^5 b<i^^L] .^oink)?
.• ;_»..kk£:)0 A^A.K» . .1 .1 ff)? ].uJQ_. |>^>J. \ili ■• I I \n-rJ^
V. Here are inserted in this manuscript the two Epistles of S. Clement to the Corinthians, which form no part of the Harklensian version. The translation, of which no other copy is known to exist, appears to belong to the seventh century, and may be assigned to the school of Athanasius of Balad and Jacob of Edessa, For an estimate of its value see Lightfoot, *S'. Clement of Rome, Appendix, p. 238 sqq.
1. The first Epistle, f. 142 h,
.V»Aj_.>aD5 Ua Lo^-i Subscription, f. 155 h,
2, The second Epistle, f. 155 h,
Here there are no capitula. The numeration of lessons runs continuously through the whole of the Acts and Apo- stolic Epistles, from 1, f. lOG h, to ^j-D, f. 159 a. For a list of
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those in the two Epistles of S. Clement see Lightfoot, 0/9. cit. p. 236.
VI. The Pauline Epistles, viz.
1. Romans, f. 159 h.
2. 1st Corinthians, f. 169 a.
3. 2nd Corinthians, f. 178 6.
4. Galatians, f. 185 h.
5. Ephesians, f. 189 a.
6. Philippians, f. 192 h.
7. Colossians, f. 195 a.
8. 1st Thessalonians, f. 198 a.
9. 2nd Thessalonians, f. 200 a.
10. 1st Timothy, f. 201 h.
11. 2nd Timothy, f. 204 6.
12. Titus, f. 206 6.
13. Philemon, f. 207 h.
14. Hebrews, f. 208 h. Complete, with the exception of a few words on the damaged f. 216.
The numeration of lessons runs through the whole book, from ], f. 160 a, to -v^^^' ^- ^16 «• Subscription, f, 216 h,
001 ^5 odi .■\t\ t.V) ^.anVin "jooi *:2uAd5 o6i Ijvkjvj. lAi-jjiD |-.;.£D]c:m loon A-.]? Jj^wk., ^ ]oai ^so^KiiZ] *::ijA;05 : >coo\ 1 <^V)g^ i*.jj-05 liSAo 1 1 o : ]i > /\f>r.\oN^ ^(Ti\i:^ A_."J5 .^j^CLLArij] IZ-;^] locnj •;• .oij-.] /^; > ^^ ]octi .]Lcl^A^ .\nr) "jZojoiro .ilnr) ]]iQ.iD .]] ."ix^-^ .]r-KKr)1 lA^DJ "jZoA_.Aj-Ki:i ^.a5 .o a ^Z] .oX^ ]j^.£iZ^ U^j]
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Vi-iOOT^? ^^1 v^l cloAt)? .-.mi mn^ao ^a^^ol
■ ey^V|^n\ ^ . N . g^ .. .n ^^ > np ^'cTljO ^TlX-.? VjJZQ-iO
VII. Prefixed to the volume is an Index of Lessons for the whole year, if. 1 — 10, entitled, f. 1 b,
r> . \ . Mri]-t 1j.jAj_» l55Q_K» aili:D> ].1->';ID) (sic) .nnn .in o
It comprises
1. The Gospels, f. 1 6. A leaf is wanting after f. 1, Sub- scription, f 6 h,
2. The Acts and Apostolic Epistles, f. 7. Title, f. 7 a, Only the first leaf remains.
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8. The Pauline Epistles, f. 8 a, imperfect at the beginning. Subscription, f. 10 6,
.*oAr:o _»;^o »cQn^) ]-»-4^ ^ P^J l;-o? ^ ] . iAi «
There are ornaments, consisting of interlaced lines variously coloured, at the beginning of each book.
The colophon, f. 216 h, states that this volume was written in A. Gr. 1481 = A.D. 1170, in the convent of Mar Selibha on the holy mountain of Edessa, by a monk of Edessa named Sahda, at the cost of the priest Rabban Basil bar Michael of Edessa.
]_i_»j ]lk) ]jai tciAs ] I \V)Q-> LtJZi o] jriro ^j V\o -
^ZjZ IZ-^^lo : ]-«-.'rO ]->^ I \»? >m» mn-;g)?o : ^n > \ m]^ yj] : "U^ I Nj «C0o\o'=^? ]Zm g^NV) i:<lL : .no > <^ . \ p^
llV)\rD5lo .^X"!? ..Jai l^i ■ n .] i Nn^^j fcoolZ? (.5oZ
"jAjLjjiD _cn?ol? \».^r^ I'CL^j .l_.yj_.l_. Zu.r;ir:) ]J lAkij^io "I Aid? K<^ ' ^ ' "^ <r-*? *^AdZ] •:• ■]An.'-.Vr> :>cll 1^ I 1 mb^-oALo "jZq-iIqjCti ZoV) . V)»-to : lA^ii^rAAk) ^,_.Ak)5 .]j(jii ] ■ I ■ no ]g^ni }_.^a? ^ » co|^ ^3? -lAiisu oili "locru? U^^i^l QAi .,V) V.CTIJ0] ^5 ^|iij.k) ^iD CTLoAiD .l;-.^j_2)?o l-«-2U5 jjjZaLDo ] i 1 mo5 L^ioio ]j.j.-.criX
IciQ-KK^ |J] .;. wjCnJol? CTUiiDj U",L.pri lr-»^^ IjOlCD ^) . S y^g^? : !» I >V)\ i<l>!iJO ]iV)i01SD )r»S\ \d ^ \S\ • V'-^^' OOl ^ ,_iD ]J Lj5 ANsN ^J^? Iv-. ^ ,_jL.llOT 1^)0.010
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•> .*^LdL] oiZo *=^ . . I n? ocn ^o . ^ciAiDj ]_i_4>^ ^ ]^Q-»-»-^
On fol. 11a stands a note which has apparently been washed out and partly erased. So far as legible, it states that this copy of the New Testament reached the city of Sebaste (Sivas) after the ravaging of Cilicia by the Tatars, having been bought from thera for 30 pieces of silver by Rabban Daniel bar Hannun, and presented by him to the church of Mar Theodore in the said city, A. Gr. 1595 = A.D. 1284.
,J^ "jocn X^'iLL , i,n? ") > o 1 \ I n? ] i n.» ,_1d5 ."jZoiV^a V) ^?7 .aiZo-ilQjai Zon ^ , i n .|jOiX1 ioZ^^ ]jc7i .Ir^ii
(sic) ^]0 ^2^ OOIO ."U>-liD jjfc.j.aUD ^CLlS^ ^^ .^]jlJ5
. ^ctiOj-Lli.? ^ooiAJL^iJ? lA-KK-uJ ^^4^ ."jA i 1 Ki03 IZjo-.A^. (sic) ^1 . .-.oioTi.^? ]i nno >o .aioQ_K.j ij.rDQ_K>Ao .»CDo55o"|Z ^jiD5 jX) IZaX ^_nJ»o .]g^mn? ^A\A^ U-oo ,_...^L^) ^5 "U.1 "^C'r^ ."JZa ^ lo<^ Aj]? oxocl*j ^^^ en V T s? lAJLsu ^ .... oX. ]1 1 \£) ^jJloi |^>acci^ ^o^j]
^]_._35? (sic)
Seven or eight lines at the top of the second column have been almost wholly effaced.
Then follows, in the second column, another deed of pur- chase, likewise only partially legible, recording the sale of the
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book by the monk Thomas to the monk rabban Lazarus of the convent of , with the names of the witnesses.
]jcn ]^Aii^ Axoij "U-r^-i A-L^ ]^oL Xi] ^ Ui-m.^
]<^ni ]^i^-> 5ijA ^r:^^ Ur-*^ ^j.i.ri5i]^ ]1^ jho ]L,^y
. . ^JL.J . . . ]A^ (1) 4^'^^?? Ij^chd 1;1do\o? .]ai\"ir;D
•••• ^j-Sd] OlLOL |1V)« 1 V'jkDO .*CDo5o>o"iZ ^550 ."iSDO.^TD
A much later note at the foot of the second coUimn states that the book then belonged to Mar John Stephen of Beth Severina, son of Yeshua', son of Behnam.
ooij ,_J_»oQ_. ^^Lo V»-CCi-»-» v^^-^V l-r»^? \^^ ]^to oZl.") cnl. Zv-iAo "loT^ vO'^T-^ IiQj-kJ |_»^±k) IsOJCTLO ] « » « r^
Another note, also of late date, on f. 10 b, has been almost wholly erased.
On f. 1 a the first of the above notes is repeated by a dif- ferent hand in a somewhat altered form, and it is here that the date A. Gr. 1595 is given.
].^m ^ IZcnkLa.iD ]ju4nir:irD cn-.Ajl5 I'airo? "jAi ..V)n u6i^ -L^:^ ^> "U'iLl. ^Q^G^y UIjooi j_. ^ ] i o i \ i o?
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\^!iD XLj^ ]ho \^L£i ]j(Tl\ ^10 ^2)^ OOTO .]»> 1V)
<TU_oo ^1 OT-^? ] I rr)Q-K»Ao w*aiOj_LLii lA-^-^uj 1^>- - ^ XDO)?]^ ^jiD5 jId Ua^ cnin»o "Ulcqi:? ^^6l\LiD (sic) -AjjJ ]ai2:L ^ "U^biQ-* A^o ..fnn iio "jAj-iylao cri^ ia_£)a4>j o| 12.0 m .^ -^Nsn ];..V?]? ]l^ ^ en i n^i? '||[V) ■ ]kLK»o ^21^ Ai_» ^juliai ^dcn ."tca>oAj ]] U^? ooio ^[o ^]j]j? ^ U'^ lri>? ljJQ-.ri:) . ■ViK.o ^^ I s •Zo
This volume was purchased at the sale of M. J. Mohl's library at Paris in 1876 (lot 1796j.
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Paper, about 10 in. by 7f ; 87 leaves, a good many of which are more or less injured ; 9 quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the first, which has 8, and the ninth, which has now only 7 ; single leaves are also wanting after ff. 14 and 76 ; 19 lines in a page. Written in a rather inelegant Jacobite hand of the xviith century, with mixed punctuation.
1. The Shehimd or prayers of the canonical hours for the ferial days, f. 2 b,
Monday, f 3 a ; imperfect at the end. Tuesday, f 15 a; imperfect at the beginning.
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Wednesday, f. 25 h. The full sequence of prayers is
]n«o U*^']? '^^^-^^-^h l^^'^h l'i^ci£D?, l-»-^?^ l^r,?'
^ ' v'« t\L->, ^ t S • L»-i, and ^--*"i^-» ^-»Zj. Thursday, f. 85 h. Friday, f. 44 b. Saturday, f. 54 a. Subscription, f. G3 a,
2. The Order of the Resurrection, "jA V) 1 n? ]mn 4 lAo^n.a V), for Sunday, with the same sequence of praj^ers, f. 63 6 ; imperfect at the end.
F. 1 a and f. 84 contain hymns written by later hands.
Ff. 85 — 87 are three leaves from a printed service book.
There are rude attempts at ornamentation throughout the volume.
This manuscript was brought from Southern India, and con- tains many marginal notes written in that country. They are readily distinguishable from the older marginal notes by the colour of the ink and the Nestorian character of the writing.
Presented to the University Library by the late Rev. J. M. Speechly.
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[See Appendix.] B. C. 2
18 Add. 1865, 1866
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Paper, about 6;^ in. by 4§; 50 leaves, of which ff. 2 — 5 and 48 — 50 are blank ; 4 quires, unsigned, of 12 leaves, with two leaves prefixed ; 18 lines in a page. Written in a good, regular, Jacobite Karshuni, apparently of the xix th cent.
The Book of Genesis in Arabic, f. 7 a.
The text ends abruptly on f. 48 b with ch. xxx. 33.
On f. 1 a is written : " A Garsliunic Codex of Genesis Text of Antioch MS — never yet printed as far as I know OH"
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Paper, about 4| in. by 3 ; 166 leaves, of which ff. 1, 2 and 159 — 165 are blank ; 14 quires, unsigned, of 12 leaves, except the first two, which have 10 each, and the last, which has 8 ; some leaves are wanting at the beginning ; 23 lines in a page. Written in a small, neat, Jacobite hand, apparently of the xvii th cent, (see below).
1. The Shehlmtd or prayers for the canonical hours, accord- ing to the Maronite use, f, 3 6,
Sunday, f. 3 6 ; sequence of prayers, <^T-yjr-^ ^^ I ■ V)5, ]3ZciCD,
Monday, f. 27 a ; Tuesday, f. 46 i ; Wednesday, f. QQh; Thursday, f. 87 a; Friday, f. 108 a; Saturday, f. 127 6.
Subscription, giving the date, f. 147 a, CTij.£0 ]j_.^.k»Z _mlJi^
^^-.V-K. \d ^ CL^^l, which is A. Gr. 1746 -a.d. 1435, but so
old the volume cannot be*.
* That A.D. 1746 should be meant is unlikely.
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2. Sunday offices, in Karshmn, viz,
a. The Unction of the Sick, ._ii;ki2^ ni >,^nr>^, f. 147 h.
b. Prayer on entering the house of a Woman in Childbed, oi^^loA ^]^ ^^!^ oiaX^, f. 148 h.
c. The Churching of a Woman, ai|;iQ2^ \>a2j criioZj cfim.> )o2^, f. 149 o.
d. The order of Baptism, cri-i?oV)SV:^ oir^Z?, f. 149 h.
e. The Consecration of clerical Robes, »CQ^li_^ »£Qj^dZ, lk)oV)S ^j-^^j-^lL, f. 153 a.
/ Prayers for the sick, w^^;V^^ ^"^^^S' ^- ^^^ ^^
g. Prayer for one possessed of a devil, «. i \s »-»i^] OiU .
ai^j].^^»-» C7i-.j1 oiX 5"|» ^, f. 156 6.
h. Prayer to drive out devils, etc., ^j..^u*..«u_xs j^^-ik p.?
CTLij] ^20, f. 157 b.
F. 3 a contains the conclusion of a service in Karshiini.
On f, 159 a is written JL di cailano Perij.
On f. 166 (a piece of paper pasted on the inside of the cover) Ave read: Devocionano en lengua siriaca, del siglo 17°, corre- spondiente a la Relijion, de los Jacobitas Maronitas, Nestorianos &c. lo compre en Marzeille en 1828. ,/. A. Llobet y da
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[Fragments 1 — 6. See Appendix.]
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Paper, about llf in. by 7f ; 206 leaves, of which ff. 1, 205 and 206 are modern and blank ; some of them are stained with oil, others have been repaired at a recent date ; 21 quires, signed
with letters, of 10 leaves, except 2, 8, and ?a, 5 ; 28 lines in a
page. Written in a good, regular, Nestorian serta, of the xvith cent., except ff. 2 and 3, which are of the xviii th.
The Pentateuch, according to the Peshitta version.
Genesis, f. 2 b.
Exodus, f. 52 6.
Leviticus, £ 95 a.
Numbers, f. 125 b.
Deuteronomy, f. 168 a. The last leaf, containing the colophon, has been lost. The sections of the several books are numbered separately.
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Paper, about 12 in. by 8|; 274 leaves, many of which are stained by water; fif. 1, 273 and 274 are blank; 28 quires,
signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except 2 (9), mm (8), and y^A
(7). Written in a good, regular, Nestorian serta of the earlier part of the xviii th cent., except ff. 2 — 4 and 268 — 272, which were supplied in 1843, The volume contains
The whole Beth Maut&bhe of the Old Testament, according to the Peshitta version.
1. Joshua, f. 2 b.
2. Judges, f. 28 b.
3. 1 and 2 Samuel, f 54 a.
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4. 1 and 2 Kings, f. 114 6. On the margin of f. 114 6 is written ^eOOkbSS ^^4S3 ^60, and the commencement of the second book is marked on the margin of f. 147 6,
5. The Proverbs of Solomon, f. 178 a.
6. Koheleth, ^Sojob, f. 199 6.
7. Ruth, f. 207 b.
8. The Song of Songs, ft^^laatfts O^^l^ ^XJE is'y^ iCi^SxisJ. 211 a.
9. Ecclesiasticus, OuOOIS *.O^ibAX 3^3 ^^01*9 ^JSbAdMi
•• • \ " ' ■ ' ■ "
ly*a 3^3, f. 214 6. The subscription adds Ik'hJoao'i ^3^33
10. Job, f. 249 a.
The Beth Maut^bhe is divided on the margin into 164 sec- tions, f. 270 6, and each book has its separate numeration.
The older scribe was named Joseph, as appears from the subscription to Judges, f. 53 6.
;^o^o .ilu^ ^^?^ «^to^o .^aa!a ^^ ;ktiis:ap3
*:• ^>m2 ^ous ;^i ^oAl,
The modern supplies were written by the priest Abraham for the priest George, " the teacher of the Englishmen," in the year 2154 = A.d. 1843, in which the patriarch Mar Simeon and the scribe took refuge in Mosul, because the Muhammadan rulers Niiri-beg and Badrkhan-beg had laid waste the district of Teyare, f. 272 a.
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.;ts*^^yXh9 ^o^ "^^9^'^ 'P'^ : ;is*ioI ?4^}2 isaJL:?
obob ;isaJi 3cp *:• ;3>I^M ;\bO ^^oaueo p^ : ?V'S>S>iy 33 : ^y*^^ <sS ^^^aabSo . ^ao^ .sa ^^^boi : }'x.bb2
: iLi, ;\» a^A ^ar w*oio^y.2 •> ?a^b 3^2^ ^o^offao
Compare Badger, Tke Nestorians, i. 261 sqq. The priest " George of Asheetha" is mentioned at p. 283.
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Paper, about 10| in. by 7 ; 198 leaves, some of which are a good deal soiled and mutilated, especially ff. 1, 2, 9, 88, and 198. The quires, signed with letters, are of 10 leaves, except the first, which has now only 7, and the last, which has now only 4. Three leaves are wanting after f, 186. There are 29 lines in each full page. This volume is written in a small, elegant Nes- torian serta of the xiiith cent., with numerous vowelpoints, etc. It contains
The whole Beth Mautebhe of the Old Testament, according to the Peshitta version ; viz.
1. Joshua, v^aa ^OXkS ^^A, f. 1^.
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2. Judges, ?v^"**' t^«>A»* wjiip ^3 a^^uQ), f. 21 b.
3. Ruth, ;fis*3io» ^o^^^ ^ClAX^, f. 40 6.
4. I Samuel, o^^OuTU t^M}* m333 '^OA^dO sAiO \d.2obaX3, f. 43 6.
II Samuel, \»Mx. y43? ;a\an3 ^3^? l^^JBa , f. 68 a.
5. I Kings, .^auQ9i wA33 ^OaS^S ^^3 ^3^^^,
f. 88 b. Subscription, f. 114 b, "i^S^? ^y^JSao 1^1 pSji
II Kings, ;aN^3 ^332? ly^O ^SsSl, f. 114 6.
6. Proverbs, XiO? M ♦^baAtS u.ono^fis», f. 136 a.
7. Ecclesiastes, ♦^'aaXt 0^00)9 ^^OlOtJp ^SfiSa, f. lol a.
8. The Song of Songs, ^XJC ^^2ai, f. 156 6.
9. Ecclesiasticus or Siracides, ^fxAlQ>XI3 iei3f30>M>, f. 159 a.
10. Job, ;^9f aa*l^ i^^^Xis, f. 184 6. Missing portion, ell. vi. 4 — xiii. 21.
Colophon, f. 198 6, ^*^^ Uo] ^sSssk o6o^ ?A[x] .^3 ;&2 adb2 .;&.>tj ^«033 ^fisl . .. ajQ>^ .;3^a» A«20ibEtf .icialoM ^o^a ;\4» .»^3a ^o[a;-] .;a«*iQ9-%3 .^XJC ^>s ^^a]ati .^Lisio .^si^io y^jio]
[.s30u2]
The larger sections are marked throughout the volume, with double numeration on the marg^ins. Smaller sections are
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noted with o .°- o in text and margin. The titles of the several books are gilded.
The text of this MS. has been carefully corrected by readers. The margins contain some Syriac and Arabic glosses, mostly of later date.
Add. 1965
Paper, about 10^ in. by 7^ ; 257 leaves, the last of which is a little torn ; 26 quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the first and last, which have 9 and 8 ; 26 lines. Written in a neat, regular, Nestorian serta, and dated A. Gr. 1804 = A.D. 1493. The volume contains
The Prophetical Books of the Old Testament, according to the Peshitta version.
1. Isaiah, f. 1 b.
2. The twelve minor Prophets, f. 57 6. Hosea, f. 57 b; Joel, f. 66 a ; Amos, f. 69 a ; Obadiah, f. 76 a ; Jonah, f. 77 a ; Micha, f. 79 a; Nahum, f. 84 a ; Habakkuk, f. 86 a ; Zephaniah, f. 88 6 ; Haggai, f. 91a; Zechariah, f. 93 a ; Malachi, f. 103 a.
3. Jeremiah, f. 106 a.
4. Ezekiel, f. 178 a.
5. Daniel, f.234 b ; with rubricated glosses in the latter part, ff 252 — 4. To it are annexed
a. Bel, f. 255 a. *
b. The Dragon, f. 256 b.
There is a continuous marginal division into 131 sec- tions (f. 255 a), and the sections of each book are separately numbered.
The colophon states that this MS. was written in the year 1804 = A.D. 1493, when Simeon was catholic patriarch and Elias metropolitan of Nineveh, by one Gabriel for his cousin the priest John, son of Simeon.
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(a line and a half erased) <• ^0u3 ^slo IXiOAiOisO J^^l
^op 0)39 acAs ^2 : ^i^N oSa< o^m uoioaoJsa
.j(o ^^ ^ox <* ^2o
On £ 1 ft a later hand has written a short siigitha for Easter in Arabic, of which the subscription is
'l**^^ %^^i i^^^oso ;9oi ^^p^
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Paper, about 8^ in. by 6 ; 238 leaves, of which the first three and the last four are blank ; 30 quires, signed with letters, of 8 leaves, except the last, which has only 6; 17 lines. Written in a good, regular, Nestorian serta, and dated A. Gr. 2137 = A.D. 1826.
A Psalter, of the Chaldeans or Roman Catholic Syrians, comprising the following items.
1. The Psalms, according to the Peshitta version, with headings, occasional prefatory prayers, etc. For example :
Ps. V. f. 7 h.
*:* \aana ^»^a>o,i. ^bai'? ;^oilo>sis^ \^ ^^^ = ^
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.j(0 .;&2 ^^^ oo] <^^oS^ \y^
Ps. xxviii. f. 28 b. OOm iS*23 ^^'^ ^2 O^ OuXmO u07a^'f> uOioS^
;ba!^a .^bo btib^x^ ^ ^o^i ^^Sbti ;j.b^ ^ .^,>»>« ^I^ <^^o^ -^9^ "^k"*^ ^^ ^^i^o y.*l» bdbjsx^
Ps. xliv. f. 46 a.
.^4^ ?^o ^ba^ 5^ .^b^^ <* ;'a^is^ ^.^0^33^3
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^^ ;o^i ^boa^ .:zAL ^'o6s*23 ii.is^l .odx^sa ^aS
isa^^? "py^ . ^bo^jcp!^ yboa^ Q^aa ■^Sfoi o^o^
The >!L^oa7 and jR«io'iS!) are marked both in the text and on the margins.
Subscription, f. 15.5 a :
^2cuao'ibpo *^ ^^^>o ^xq>^ ^^o <• ^^uQ^r^ j\Soa7o
^*d^i ^f^^ ^^o'^^? ^Mo <• ^aio ^fr^^^o ;;^a^^o ^^S^o ;;>yavnt l^yso •:• ^oisi ^isaiso y^iba^o ;;2abo^o
^xobo *> ^ *s^oaori *> ^aio ^akiQ»^< ^oCSbJ. <* ^.tto^o
ayioaka isAp ^bo <• ;xh»d^ ^.a <« ?,t»^ aA. <* ;^aio
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2. The Canticles.
a. The first Song of Moses, Exod. xv. 1 — 21, f. 156 a. «^oo;^o\^ \^ «> ;xobo ;j>$o^3 ^2cui0aii ^oslx^
6. The Song of Isaiah, ch. xlii. 10—13, xlv. 8, f. 157 b.
c. The second Song of Moses, Deut. xxxii. 1 — 21 (first half), f. 158 ft.
d The third Song of Moses, Deut. xxxii. 21 (second half)— 43, f. 160 a.
3. Hymns entitled }33aM3 "Auisilfts.
a. For the Sundays and Dominical Festivals, except the Nativity, by Mar Narsai, f. 162a:
*:* ^aXl ^ ^^^ .^i'a^ ^?^^?^ )^^3LX3X^d : 6^»9ait
2^
33^3 Z^ilA m3o^ .^ 3^ Jii^o 2\^\'t) wJOMi^ ;>i.nv.s
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b. For the morning of Sunday, by Mar Ephraim, acro- stich, f. 162 6 :
ojJaM . ;AS>y> ^3^i w*a^ ^*^? .^Sstay^^ ^^K^
c. By Narsai, f. 164 a : }30!P& .«dJ9>ai>^ ?>i>nN<a <* ojaitiva d)[!^ ^^^tibpo o;^
\ ■ ' >« I" ^ / ' » » ■ » ' « ' ' ii» •
•> ;jIo3 ;bo\L ;i£to
rf. The Song of the three holy Children, 6^*53 *^SiM^6axis JoLi, f. 165 rt, from v. 35 to the end, which is altered thus:
^\t oaSa .^SkbOL^ \«ILmo ^3f>tO ilik^ ^^
oaa^a .^i^^ ^a^? yiOoao^D o&ia «> ^^.^bsA ^laso
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;.3^ ^SkSM <* i^iioS ^ib03 a!is4^ tt^'*^? "^
e. For the morning of Sundays and of the Dominical Festivals, by Theodore of Mopsuestia, f. 166 ft :
/ The Nicene Creed, f. 160 b :
.JCO .^ puMii (7. Another eucharistic hymn, f. 167 b: •^00^ b^i^ -U^la ;ba^ ^ov 9iA3 ;^Xi«2
h. Another, by Mar Ephraim, f. 167 &:
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opua ^9P : ^3J^ ;3\h9 S^oau ^'ii -Ti^^l ^yi^
i. Another, for the Dominical festivals, by Yazdin, f. 168 a:
\a^ .^S ^?V^ ^>f?^? '- ^3^ ^?^? ^^3^2 j. Another, eucharistic, f 1G9 « :
A.'. Another, for the eucharist on the ferial days, by the patriarch Timothy I, f. 169 a:
*a^ ^^fSL^? -^^soImX %ioalp <• l^idp iay^l
I. For the ferial days, ^v>'A>«* ^SwaOuD, f. 169 &.
a. For the night of Monday, by Mar Abraham of Beth Eabban, f. 1696:
.^3 ;s«33 yaai'iai ^bda^ ^^«^? .}agaii*3^3 ^'^?
;^o ^iso^ ^^^ -^^a^ ^V^? ^o^^ ^ ^^2
■JEO ■♦vf
/3. For the morning of the ferial days, by Mar Ephraim, f. 170 a :
.:aU35i m35»^ ^^fSLSi? -^^ ^»eu3 l^^? I6s'yi*2
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7. For tlie night of Tuesday , by Thomas of Edessa, f. 170 6:
^ .Uoihol iaoolis^ ^>f>=^? .;^ac3^^^^ ^A^s
^eaoaa ". ♦^
S, For the night of Wednesday, by Mar Abimelech, f. 171a:
.30
e. For the night of Thursday, by Mar Ephraim, f. 171 b :
5-. For the night of Friday, by Mar John of Beth Rab- ban, f. 172 6 :
.^a 6s^sp ^o« ^adoi^ ^>f3L^? .'^inaoak^a ^A^a .so .hw'WN o;iSModx6s ^S\ : opo^ aJaa ?nS^\ ^aos
^. For the night of Saturday, by Mar Ephraim, f. 173 b :
;I^^2 5^aa .^a^i ^a^!^ ^P^f^^? -^^^^ ?A^a
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m. For Sundays, ;aaaak^? %J!*iix>s, f. 17'> h : a. For compline, by Babhai the elder, f, 178 6 :
^i : ;ibf pjiJb l^ihi ^isoiiSiii ;^2^ .^x^ ^^oxaiua
/3. For the Annunciation and the Nativity, by the same, f. 174 a :
^ia .lap Jsap o^p 3a o^p .Ja^ao ^33ouq>3
7. For the night of Sunday in the week of the Epiphany, by Babhai bar Nesibhnaye, f. 175 a :
<* '^otiLbfa
8. For the Consecration of the Church, by Mar George, metropolitan of Nisibis, f. 176 6:
>in>\,.Sa^a\^ uoa^aoA, v^a6»^ ^^f^? •'^?^?^?
«> ^^a ^ ay.^<a
B. C.
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6. For the Fridays of Lent and the Prayer of the Ninevites, by Babhai bar Nesibhnaye, f. 177 h :
ha jHa!^ ;\»nV<3 .iaosapo lieo^p ieao'y^^ iSsy^l
r. Another, for the Prayer of the Ninevites, by the same, f 178 a :
iCiio is*^o ^o^ ^3 .^oauds^ '='?^^^ ofes
^. Another, for Lent, by Babhai the elder, £ 178 a:
7}. Another, for the Saturdays in Lent on which there is no celebration of the eucharist, at compline, by Mar Simeon bar Sabba'e the patriarch, f 178 b :
oi^ ^aM2o .U^i ^*ap isSp ^p ^o^3 l^k^^
^px K" U^ex ^ lOb^ )Lp : *^aaa ^a^ 5^ ^px
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0. Another, to be read at evening in Lent, and at the close of the daily hours, f. 179 6 :
•:• ^i ^^ 7%\s!^ ^oXa
n. For the week of Summer. a. Alphabetical, with a final o^ f- 180 « :
: ^4^p MoS^y lysis ao^SiO .^a> ^„?^
yS. Alphabetical, with a final (3, f 181 h: ^^booti >iSioia :s0b»33 ;x^ u^ o2 2 .;^x.«2
0. ^JSbf 03ta , condones or prayers spoken by the deacon, f 188 a.
a. For the evening of every day, f. 183 a.
/3. Another, oTft^MU., f. 184 «.
<y. At compline, jL^ftjQ^, f. 186 h.
B. Another, ^oAa3 ;3tSO»3 ^X.*2, f. 187 a.
€. For Lent, ;»05?, f. 187 b.
5". For Lent, f 187 b.
3—2
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X. Another, f. 188 6,
<« ^MJS^s oar ^bAjca ^if<sol orb^sa ;^^isisbp3 lisy*^l
7]. Another for Lent, ^Om3, f. 192 «. 6. Another, h\is^, f. 193 ff.
I. For the Friday of Lazarus, 3f^3 *i\303kS*3 > f. 194 h.
K. For the Friday of the Crucifixion, ^2R30akS<3 ;*:?, f. 195 6.
\. Eucharistic, f. 196 a, ^f'fila ^bfoa^^.
IX. Another, f. 196 h. V. Another, f. 197 a. o. Another, f. 198 a. SuKscription, f. 198 a,
p. Hymns of the martyrs, for the evening and morning of each ferial day, twelve in number, f. 198 h,
Subscription, f. 230 h,
7%\\\ li^'l l*^^ o^o .a^b^bis %JA ^09^^*29
<« ^2o ^2 ^^
The colophon, f. 230 h, states that this volume was finished on the 27th of Tamuz, A.G. 2137 =A.D. 1826 = A.H. 1242, when Leo XII was Pope of Rome, Joseph V patriarch of the Chal- deans at Amid, Basil bishop of Nisibis, and Joseph bishop
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of Mosul. It was written at Mosul by Emmanuel, son of Hor- mizd, son of Oraha (Abraham), the dyer, for 'Abd al-'Ahad, son of 'Abd al-Masih, of Mosul.
o^^2 .ic^ol «!Sbti 22 .tssJES -l^Mp .2 .;3kaL3>^^ 0CT70 ^yy^o ;»fp ;&3d^«bo^o .^^^.^^ oMhl .ieu^Lsao
M»ou3 ^9 "S^^^ii (f- 231 a) .jso ^ab6L2o : ox .aoL ^
^3 \a ^»3 ^*>^?? ^•^^^? ^^AoNtt uosuasbls^^^ .;tji^^^^ i^ya^llpo >^2 ^^*>^a3 w*oioJs«23 .;a^^o
.;Aliao ^L.>bo tS^oaoa ;:s^o^'^^^ l^oJOLfia^l ^^joaol ^^aao .jco ici^ia ^L.3dA3 au\ ^^^^2 (f 231 6) .j:o
* ^<7)Oftsdi2 2 i*^ added on the margin by another hand.
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(f. 233 a) .so mo;o^^ oH^ oSaa <* l^^^ .l^'iol ^^Jio y*o6p ^o) ^6*^9 c7^0A^is^^ op ^^$^^o ^^^ t*? ^^
^^ a>^!S>a o^ '^'^? ^ba^ ^^rA -^^ '^ ^^^?
.jco .oiSkboa U^t^o^
This volume has many oinameutal head and tail-pieces. The 'unwan, f. 4 6, is gilded, and also f. 234 a, which contains the Arabic sentence
\sj\ ,^li]\ ^U. Mi The binding is also neat.
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Vellum, about ll§in. by 8 ; 2G5 leaves, a few of which, near the beginning, are somewhat stained and soiled : 27 quires signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the first, which has 9, and the last, which has only 6 ; 2 columns of from 29 to 33 lines. The writing is a fine, regular Nestorian Estrangela of the xiiith cent, (see below), very carefully pointed. Foil. 100 — 109, 130, 131, 138, 139, and 249—265, are paper supplies of A. Gr. 2013 = A.D. 1702. It contains
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The New Testament, according to the Peshitta, version.
1. The four Gospels. S. Matthew, f. 2 b. S. Mark, f. 38 b.
S. Luke, f. 60 b. S. John, f. 99 b.
2. The Acts, f. 129 ft ; and the Catholic Epistles, viz. S. James, f. 170 6 ; S. Peter, f. 174 6 ; S. John, f. 179 a.
3. The Pauline Epistles, viz.
Romans, f. 183 a ; 1 Corinthians, f. 197 6 ; 2 Corinthians, f. 212 b ; Galatians, f. 223 a ; Ephesians, f. 228 a ; Philippians, f. 233 b ; Colossians, f. 237 a ; 1 Thessalonians, f. 240 6 ; 2 Thes- salonians,. f. 244 a ; 1 Timothy, f. 245 b ; 2 Timothy, f. 250 a ; Titus, f. 252 b ; Philemon, f. 254 b ; Hebrews, f. 255 a.
The large sections are marked on the margins with a double numeration, one for the whole book, the other for the Gospels, the Acts and Catholic Epistles, and the Pauline Epistles. Smaller sections are indicated by coloured points 'O* in the text and on the margin. There are a very few marginal notes referring to matters of reading and punctuation.
The subscription, f. 205 b, informs us that this MS. was repaired by the deacon George, son of the priest Daniel, in the year 2013 = a.d. 1702.
On f. 1 a is a note, much effaced and in parts ([uite illegible, which states that, in the time of the Catholic patriarch Denha, this MS. was written for Fakhr ad-Din Ibrahim, son of Jamal ad- Din Ishak, son of Shams ad-Din, son of the Khwaja Ibrahim, of the city of Hamadhan. As Denha I. sat from November 1577 (A.D. 1265) to February 1592 (a.d. 1281), the date, which is almost illegible, must fall between those years. The first two
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letters seem to be clearly h\r^, and the last to be \.: if so, the remainder should be either -yp (1577 = a.d. 1265) or j^o (1587 = A.D. 1275).
i.^^ rdJ-a^ ntL*cAc\ reL»cn\ [riLU5»x»]cTi»5?3 rf^l^A^T
^cnisf^ Kl^K'cVA va ^^."UK' .fiatax. r^ixxxa •%=
r^'xsno.Sk AxxJsn [r^i^a^-i.i] pelrsia r^'^oaart'.i K^^K'.i
.cn^.Tik^ r<t»jLxZ-^l K'^CUfiSM cnl^.i rd^^ i\f)Cv
A^reLi (s/c) ^^4.1^ ^^^cnSl^.lO (?) r<L»^t73."i
^a,\-=> ih\o.y .... K'^a^Vsn ^ireli.i pt'colre' r^iss ctA Kll-sCUJ^ r<UkAx. ^c\\^o K'^oAua ;;n.*i.i« ^^vtw ^ix.^v=3 nilxiii.i (?) r^'J.Tooo.Swl.i vyK* ^^v^^r^* .^2>3t<'
(?) t . . . ^K* AvlX. .^CLk.lXl
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Vellum, about 7^ in. by 10^ ; 227 leaves, of which ff. 181— 196 are a later supply on paper. F. 1 is only half a leaf, and some other leaves are slightly damaged, e.g. ff. 79 and 217. The quires are now 25 in number, of 10 leaves, with the excep- tion of ^, which has 12. The signatures are letters. There are lacunse after ff. 1, 11, 19, 82, 180, 196, 216, 222, 225, 226 and 227. There are from 30 to 84 lines in a page. This MS. is
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written in a fine regular Nestorian Estraugela of about the xith cent., with vowelpoiuts and marks of interpunction. The paper supply is a good Nestorian hand of the xvith cent.
The New Testament, Peshitta version.
I. The four Gospels.
S. Matthew, f. 1. Missing portions: ch. i. 1 — v. 7, v. 18 —21, V. 29— viii. 34, xv. 32— xvi. 19 (k'_x_5>i_x_=3), xxii. 29 (fisli^) — xxiii. 14.
S. Mark, f. 30 a. Missing portion, ch. iii. 3 (acrA isars'o) — iv. 1.
)S. Luke, f. 52 h.
S. John, f 91 6.
II. The Acts of the Apostles, f. 119 a,
.r^_xj.nja r^LMkAz..! jaafia^HSk .odfi^'^i ^uizJta ao^
The CathoHc Epistles; viz. S. James, f. 157 «; S.Peter, f. 1606; S. John, f. 1646.
III. The Epistles of S. Paul,
JSooXa^ t<'cq1t<'.1 r^-xn.^^ r<lM.Ax..i r^La^x^ .:ac\h\
rellfiax^dri^sq ; viz. Romans, f. 16S 6. Missing portion, ch. xiv. 13 — xvi. 9.
1 Corinthians, f. 181 h. Missing portion, ch. ix. 2 — 26.
2 Corinthians, f. 196 b. Missing portion, ch. i. 2 — vi. 13
Galatians, f 202 h.
Ephesians, f. 207 h.
Philippians, f. 212 a.
Colossians, f. 215 h. Missing portion, ch. ii. 14 — iii. 22.
1 Thessalonians, f. 217 6.
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2 Thessalouians, f. 220 b.
1 Timothy, f. 222 a. Missing portion, ch. ii. 1 to the end.
2 Timothy, f. 223 a. Missing portion, ch. i. 1 — ii. 4. Titus, f. 224 b. Missing portion, ch, ii. 12 to the end. Philemon, wanting.
Hebrews, f. 226 a. Missing portions, ch. i. 1 — 14, iii. 12 — V. 6, and vii. 2 to the end.
The large sections are marked throughout on the margin with a double numeration, one for the whole MS., and another for each Gospel, the Acts and Catholic Epistles, and the Pauline Epistles.
There are a few marginal annotations, relating to matters of reading and pronunciation.
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Vellum, about Q^ in. by 5 ; 266 leaves, a fevv of which are soiled and mutilated, especially f 130 ; 27 quires, signed with letters, mostly of 10 leaves ("j, 11; -yi, 9; ^^j— », H; Q-» and (JlD, 12; \o only 1); Uvo columns, 25 to 30 lines. Written in a neat, regular, Jacobite serta, of the xiith or xiiith cent. Foil. 1 — 11 are a paper supply of the present cent, in a Nestoriau hand.
The New Testament according to the Peshitta version.
1. The Gospels.
a. S. Matthew, f. 1 b.
b. S. Mark, £ 41 a.
c. S. Luke, f. 65 a.
d. S. John, f 107 a.
± The Acts of the Apostles, f. 140 b.
3. The Catholic Epistle.s. (L 8. James, f 179 a.
b. S. Peter, f. 182 b.
c. S. John, f. 186 «.
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4. The Pauline Epistles.
a. Romans, f. 1 89 h.
h. 1 Corinthians, f. 203 h
c. 2 Corinthians, f. 218 a.
d. Galatians, f. 227 b.
e. Ephesians, f. 232 a.
f. Philippians, f. 236 h.
g. Colossians, f. 240 a.
li. 1 Thessalonians, f. 243 b.
i. 2 Thessalonians, f. 246 a.
j. 1 Timothy, f. 247 b.
k. 2 Timothy, f. 251 b.
I. Titus, f. 254 b.
m. Philemon, f. 256 a.
n. Hebrews, f. 257 a.
The text exhibits many Greek vowels and the points rukkakh and kushshai in red.
The sections are marked throughout the volume (rCQ-O, f. 263 6), as well as in each book separately.
In the Gospels, and also in the Pauline Epistles, many lessons are noted on the margins, in red ink, with the letter •£) in the text. Others in black ink are of later date.
The leaf containing the colophon has been lost.
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Paper, about 8^^ in. by 6; 115 leaves, many of which are much stained by water; 12 quires signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the first, which has now only 9, and the last, which has only 4. There are 2 blank leaves at the beginning of the volume. One leaf is wanting after f. 2. There are 19 or 20 lines in each full page. It is written in a good, regular Nestoriau serta of the xviii th cent., fully pointed. The water- mark of the paper is 3 crescents ( (i ^ (i V
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The Book of the Revelation of S. John, with a brief com- mentary. The text differs altogether from that of Lee's edition, and the commentary has nothing in common with that in Brit. Mus. Add. 17,127 (see Wright's Catal. No. dccclxxv). The preface is imperfect, but at f. 114 a it is stated that this book of the Revelation was written in Greek and translated into Latin, thence into Arabic, and from Arabic into Syriac.
Fol. 8 a : ;d.^A2N ^^^^ ^^!^p >^ 2>^? 3^V O^^M ^ ^bisboo ^isboo x\ lyio .lisoi^avso!^ ^L^ou ^^b ;isa^ .^ai*^6jAtai^'l ;^aa:^o ^1 o!^3 ^i^ai iei>^ ^-^^P l^'i^ ^js^ l>^JBi ;a>V^3 ^?^ ?^3^ ^^^? a^iox y»a
isMyh x\ pla : ^oiLsoLtb : Uso^ l^^ • 9^
^'albo ^2(3 ;JS^^b93 cn'^p ^oi .uXboa ;ftw»^'nt oisao^ ^d oior ^^V^ (f- 3 6) .;Ia233 ^aar ':2c{a^ ^ixac ^o o&or oar . ?**>t» v^o3U ^ :3U«»3 ^o os'oT ;^,ao ^ox*3 ;bfM . jdi^bo^ ^32 ;o7^2 acr}*p oat : oi ;o7^2 o^ 0V?0]U?
Abd. lf)70 45
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;^tba^ ^ScuL.?^ ^Q«^A^ o7^Iol^ ^09^0 U*^ x\ l^ai
^3 ;a;^o .;aA'«>\ 07^0^ ^ ;^boo ^oui ^o^
Jlo^Ia ^3A^ ?c^^? oor .^'i>S ^ouo .^3m*oA a^oJ^
.^0^2 ^» u010^29 3C7VQ>io ^O^ ^oA ^isA^ OOl Z O]
l^ai lopS adva ^ft^ou : 01 .?*«*tiao ^odua o^jsoaovcao : wJ^3 Xi\ \Vyy .^MjJCbss oiJsoaoVEd ^0706^23 oor ^» ^3^3^23 ;bOA2 .^oA ^o ^;]^o .^a^^kbo^ O^Oi^ 9a ^ou zo] l%Ji ^ai %oa^ (sic) ^o^Sao .^aad .<so . ^OfkM (f- 4 a) ^o^ ;o7^2 0^0^ Fol.lUa: ;a3o7 .X«.2loi^ ^^C^S ^i^? "hooLpOSaO ^^oaCO \a3 ;«SoX 0UO013 .\^>^ ^0^23 071330^«3 ^»
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^oi ^^3U ^^ ^Ou w*3^3 .JQ3UJQ>^\^Q^2 ^d.2lo*
^^A ^07 001 :aii^3i\K2o \|Aoi v^3\isx2 .;ji3ati3 ^933
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op %y^ lisl^^ ^o^^ ^ 23opo .fis^looioA ^o^o
opiAdbd \*ao7 007 wil^lba >fr>3o^ o^ o9o5o2^ iaiifalho
^op (f. 114 6) .^a^A^ 007 *^oo^ ^oA^o2 5^1 o^^
Uiii S^O .N.2o^i .^^!303 ;di0^2 O01 ?y,in3SiN^l02B . ^^2lj!3Qi3Li03 ;a\^^ 0)303 ^JS^m3 ^32 ^07^^29 (jp^ .^^3JSbO \^0 %1'iJb ^p %paLpO^ ^O^ (f.lloa) .JKO
;'Vl'\>\ .2'i«3dL ;baM'a^o 2'i^ ;L^A ;&S<So^ x\ 29or ^2o o)lV,etA9 .23uopo ?fi.\;(tftSft%mAo ^o^sl^o l'y*ajl
l**oh e07 3y^ 93 -^f^ ^i^? )^ isisS ^O) ^b^AS
:s9^o Uao^ ^J\x 3o ^>b ;iu3 «!S\bp9 ^?^
;3^a9 ojk«9 230ro& »^oV,93 . ^f^ ;Xi.& 3mi \^ ^,>??
\^o . ^o^o ^^!hi ^o^? o^oaA a^ ;X^ax9 ;^2 ;&2 ^'^^^o 'i>J^ ^oaub y^^oa^ ;&2 J^^^ap 29oi
^2 ^*o?*isA? ^I'iflo iijsop ^o;^osl9\isxJaiA (f. 115 6)
O)2o\»93 ^2 ^3J^ ;isJy.^»a3; ^9 ^9»29 ^293 v^'itt ^90^9 ;{S^,li\t1l9 ^^9 ^liiO i^lO .^cS loO) mmS^
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. ^^Aao^js^ ^is^IaoA ^^>t*\ ;fsflA^^ Ipai^o ^af^ ilia
Add. 1971
Paper, about lOjin. by 6|; 310 leaves, some of which are stained by water and torn, especially at the beginning and end ; 32 quires, usually of 10 leaves (*>j has only 9, whilst j_i has 12), signed with letters ; number of lines various, but usually from 23 to 29. Leaves are wanting after if. 7, 268, 270, 272, 274, 285, and 304. This manuscript is written in a good, current Jacobite serta. and is dated A. Gr. 1507 = a.d. 1196 (see below). It contains
The Commentary of Moses, or Severus, bar Kepha, bishop of Beth Remman (Ba-rimraa), Beth Kiyone and Mosul, on the Gospel of S. John (see B. 0. ii. 127 sq., especially p. 130, no. 3), dedicated to the abbot Cyriacus. It commences, f . 1 6 :
• U^o cniV>) ooi : "jjiJ^j Uj.^0 ) 1 \noZo "l.-na) ^
^ ;n\o : Wn^ vjC710Aj"J0 : ^^AtCISD ]J 011 V> ^O : '^ iojOa ^2..».'~)th : ^ ^ ^OlXo : ^ ^ '^^O : ^
^j A^nij lao n m I g^l jjaja^ . i \ nZ]? ooi I^oSd . .;V)\
]jLL V»-JCriSO l-a-.|lo I^Aik^J \\»"^CJI ^Sb ^^4^0 :^.QiDO
Ijoioo .Aj] |1V)«V) ^ooi^ ]i iV)l iJQj^o L^iJoio .Aj"! lr-»-i^Z ^olAki^^j .Aj] ]Ll<d (fiic) ^a L.] Ur« ^» IZoSdj
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y,\ ,nM? yLoi-t^ ^ ^^^ -^J-*? « ■ '> >coori ooo
.^■L^.ns "IZ-^ouo "|ZxD_L2LO j1v>^ ^ 1 -.^^^ |la2l ]Q»a^
.3AJ5 .loi^lL? ]nV)Qilo ]^ ^5 0(71 : ] ■ ..JD V»^o5 ^ 1A\V> ^0 .OTJ-lDj IZoJyllLLlQ^ ^^ I \5Q-Cq1^ IjTUO
"jjOUj .]V?\s\ ]L]-) tfcJjiU ^^.nl 5(TL1SD5 0(71 1(TlZL
^o-wirTiiO : 'jAjcn.Zk oiZo 1 o(nV)n . i \Vi\ y^nrrno
] . in\on VkJO-t ^ l]l^-0? : >*^? "|ZQJ0aik3 ZoZ^ ^1 i;V>l ^ . \] . in") ^^ ^OV) I mZAj? 0001 ^_-i»*vK.»-K»5 ^QJOl ]£L»Q_2^ ^Qj] ,_JLrD^;O]0 ^i^] ^1 V^pQ : A-]jQ — (^
] . rri ^> Za\ ^01 1 i,ns? ocji ^Ak? ]mo ^? ^q_»A^_jo"|5 .V»r»-»-»-»o ] I 1 N'»? (sic) "iXsLO :.nm i ^"j ^a^U-^^-j ^jiD
)>^ ' ^«; ^O-iAL^olj ]n m.nc^ isOyiD ^V> > m7Ai> ^ . SnZ\lD? "jlisLo ^L^XsO ^ .;mv ^0(715 •. ^ > \oi ^OTj^u.] ,_J_>jQ_i
w-.aioZ^l OAib? ] > Vi. n (f. 2 «) ^oU-SLD .]-•-») Z^j^o")
ojisLD .(7lZmV)0'| ZoOT (TUA^I lr-^1?0 "ULl^I ^|i2U3
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IIQjJXkjJ :JjAjAj yOJl <^ n :locn ^jOIoAj] ]yl] ]±^] ^50
.-iCJioAjl 0010 1 1 s t n • .oU^n .]^a_.5cn 6] "|oai ^oioZLi]
^\^) : ] . 1 . V)Z ^o]i2LD .CTirD ^<D? ^J^-k.] 6] .^^^> ^j^J? ] I \ I •Z vp)1 g^ n ■]V?S5 ;^ |.KK^«V) .^C71_.;-D 1,1 So
]j;.LCLCD ^ ]-i^i mS .ojisLD : ]J o] ^Zo"jo ^Sbj ^k) OCT!
l,j]^5 v^^Q-^r-*^? v°^-^^^ -UcriZL ^ 6] .^^^ ] ■ 1 V)N1
^^ ■ \ .]? :;m.si>Z? ^o]1 ^ n .IjZ] U-»1^o ^^^ "|Aj_.ySD
^j]?? : -^IXLLZIlIZ? ^llaiD .1V>\o • C7l\ OOOl 1^0 t^v^
^ .\^nvn> ^.\.] .^)A_. ]A\Xi' ^ . N-ilo ] Vi n?
oioiLcL* "JAXl 1_^1 ^^4^? oij? v?U-2ld .oiZoi ^\V)\ l^jyLD tulo oi^...^ loon Ui.lSD Ui-»1? -.Oj? ^IIsld .]kLL5
B. c. 4
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]L\L _»AC7I p ULD ^^4S05 :^^^5 ^oIlsLD : ^L OiZuISD?
• jj »£dcld^Ld :"iDj.^50 cn2.o, I \ .? I^d/id ^Sd] p •»-»r-»
^j_; |]] .U^oi all ••^5 ,_L^a^ :l^rD ^r-^i-o li4^
jlibj IIji Ikr:? : .^j_DJ ^oji^LO ."jAXk) looi oL,] :^ ^ojisLD .]>ai "jZajLiDAnSn^ ^^\^t^ U> » "^ ^? : ai5) vplisLO . jjoi ^Q_i.\U^o]J ^_L>jQ_. (jioZo] Q_iib Za\>
jlV^n |Lq:d5 ^jdi '^ :a5? ^lisiD ."ijoi ^aj.XV\*-Jo|£i (f. 2 6) A^l U-^?Z IkiDO ]i£L.^A^ ]V)no Uo?CTi£D Ikiuo • "|v^«n ^•^roi.j ^olisLO .^1 K.a-.? jjoi ^Q_i.\|^olci aiXQ_» ]J1 "U-'U^?o • A..-«.j^^5 lio Z;JD 1^1o]ASd "UJ'i ]v>nn? ^oioAj"! a . > ..o^ .pi^lo "jcjiZ^ l^NV) ^ cTilnrDo ,_j_k.cu
:]A2iSD loOl The actual commentary begins on f. 8 6 :
ZL.]iD0ASD A > « ..^j ^oi :OT 1A!iSD "JOCJI wjOIOAj] A i • i^
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"jAiiJkj "jooi ^otoAjI Aj|iDoA!iD5 .^iblj ^^cn "jjoio .oijAjI
The first part, comprising ch. i. 1 to x. 21, ends on f. 185 b with the following colophon, from which it appears that this manuscript was written at Shiggar (Sinjar) by Isho' of Bartella, a monk of the convent of Mar Matthew at Mosul, for Abu 'l-'Izz Heshulaya (?) of Shiggar, in the year 1507 = A.D. 1196.
^^ 1 Kja^? :"|Aj.LDj-d IZq-.. \<^? ]n>o <^ ^ \ •
^^ ]_i.mj^? •]i vf^Vc^ «^ -A-a-LiZ]? :].4t^ » M'>-3ol wjCJi? •.^]y Aj-td? laamiij.^] ■.]£i\D-^ vi^^Ak?? V^oio •]LiS£j<^lD "jAj-jjio .^.QiDjo -"ijalD Aj.^ oi^A-.]
,nsj cTiZaX'^5 : "iAj-.,SD 4^ *^^l ^-? -U^^ 1'Q4^?
,_.> en mi . «~^ .^jASd ^j^SD} "j^CLL ^_SD C7I,V>\oZ?
li.\ oo] ]i ^No-i ^j^5 cn\j5 Ijo]]? 5^1 cnriDAr) -. ] ■ \ i^^ lA-i-LDpD ]Zq».^!i^ "Ijoi •AV>\Aj') : ■ . ' " ^j ] i \o • ^t :]£}V^^ U-JQ^? v^i^-*o l]V)«V:>oO ^£i.lL Ai ««-. • : ■ . ' « '-^
IhLkkJ ]oT.ZL :1jo^_. ^.u^lri OIj "joiZ^ Zf^J (jl I 10 » J>OQ_».£i
• 4^^? I^oAd ^ (sic) ]^0 OLO l^lf)? ,_kA
The second part, comprising ch. x. 22 to the end, begins thus, f. 186 a :
^OAHJ? ^^-^.^ID ]La.^^ qI.A-».\Zj U^O^O ]i^l£D ^
4—2
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•:• Ici.^ cnZoXt, -lAj^r^ ^Xrii .^^ ^? U^it^ I'O^td? ^5 ^di ilA^cn^L Uoni (}^ '^.jJ^ot ^ i . i i ^ALd p
lAli^^? ]Jo U-;^^ w^cnoNV) ^o .^i . NnZALo IcnZL? »:Qmj ^]j? ^? .w_.5oA^l 1A^jl-i_k.]Ld aiZ.-nmn? ,^~«-^-.l
It ends on f. 310 h with a subscription similar to that of part first, but partially effaced.
This manuscript has been collated throughout by the scribe I^.A-..! UP • . V ^j^g^So, f. 67 6 ; elsewhere merely J>a>-»-2i.kJ, e.g. ff. 58 6, 106 6, 126 6. The margins occasionally exhibit Greek words, barbarously corrupted ; e.g. ff. 13 h, 40 6, 43 6.
On f. 1 a is a note in Arabic, setting forth that this volume was purchased, A. Gr. 1548 = a.d. 1237, by the priest Saliba, son of Behnam, son of Yiisuf, son of Saliba,
C)Ji^ JyoJ^ (■^•''■) ^y<^\ ^J^^ ^r^^ ^■"''^^ ^"^J^"^^ W^
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idll ,^^ ^l3^n CJJ.^^ jS^LJi t__2]^j ijto.*uX«i-j L'J^J^J
A later note on the margin of f. 78 a has been partially effaced :
"jocTiZ jjcn (sic) fja^-Lli oiA -»i^? ooio ]Zan.3..o Iji^:)
."IjOCTL. i>Q.L, (sic) OTjAaID
Two readers, the deacon Haddaya, i-»J<n ^CO(V)>, and the
monk Stephen, 'j.nS*'^ qZio "[j^jJ Uim o ^^L^ro |j.4>-», have recorded their names on tf. 45 6 and 46 a.
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Paper, about 10| in. by 7 ; 167 leaves, many of which are somewhat stained by water, and otherwise injured. The quires, of 10 leaves, signed with letters, were originally at least 18 in number, but the first has disappeared, and the second and last are imperfect, owing to the loss of leaves at the beginning and end. Two columns, of from 22 to 23 lines. The writing is a clear, though somewhat irregular, Jacobite serta, bearing date A. Gr. 1530 = A.D. 1219 (see fif. 68 b, 100 a). Foil. 2—7 are a paper supply of the xviiith cent., in 2 columns of 33 lines. The contents are
Selected commentaries of Jacob, or Dionysius, bar Salibi of Melitene, bishop of Mar'ash and afterwards of Amid (B.O. ii. 156 sqq.), on the Old Testament,
1. The Pentateuch, spiritual commentary. Genesis and Exodus wanting ; Leviticus, imperfect at the beginning, f, 2a; Numbers, f. 8a; Deuteronomy f. 12 a. Subscription, f. 176,
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] " ^'^ >
2. Joshua, spiritual and material commentary, f. 18 a. Sub- scription, f. 20 b,
3. Judges, spiritual and material commentary, f. 20 b, A-»j:d] (sic) "i^tsijj IcdAd? Ij-J^i-arDO |.»jlkjo5 ]q •cia
4. Isaiah, spiritual commentary, f. 24 6,
5. Ezekiel, spiritual commentary, f. 68 b,
6. Daniel, spiritual and material commentary, f. 86 b,
7. Jeremiah, material commentary,
^^^ U-^iiu? lA.^ I ■ ^ ilo Z^ yt^] "jZoiVin ,_j_».^Ab
according to the LXX. f. 100 a ; according to the Peshitta, f. 103 6. Subscription, f. 114 a,
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8, Samuel, spiritual commentary, f. 114 a,
material commentary, f. 115 h.
9. Kings, material commentary, f. 120 6,
At tlie end is a note on the captivities, f. 129 a,
Qsut X^^r^ ] I n ■, i2) .^]^in^"j ^j.Jl^5 I i n»?
-^
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(f. 129 6) ,_..^2k ^AXZ .l>ocn^ ^ ] ..l£n
_«.ki>jO ^. sr^?lo '|]V)Sn» .(sic) Als) "|Aj.^V^o . . ^..ZjZo
10. Proverbs, spiritual commentary, according to the LXX,, f. 129 h, ^a>LriJ») lArL2ik? PALdj I^Adj ] i i k>ot ln^a£).
Subscription, f. 141 h, fj^l? )4j-1^^o^4-»-^ >coo I mi 10,.? ^ IJLj ]iJD-i ^20
|j3Zaj.\5 j^jI .s^Loo (*'/c) u-i.Z^5 och '^o .joiio ^>j»1?
:>q\3 .,^^1 oirD v^ZoA^l? ^ ^o .lQ-ti?o cji\_.5
11. The Minor Prophets, spiritual commentary; viz. Hosea, f. 142 a; Joel, f. 144 6; Amos, f. 145 6; Obadiah, f. 147 « ; Jonah, ibid.; Micah, f. 148 a ; Nahum, f. 150a; Habakkuk, f. 151a ; Haggai, f. 152 a ; Zephaniah, f. 152 6 ; Zechariah, f. 153 6.
12. Job, second commentary, spiritual and material, accord- ing to the Peshitta, f. 161 6,
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Imperfect at the end.
This manuscript is considerably older than the Parisian codex, Supplem. 92 (see Zotenberg's Catal., no. 66), which is dated A. Gr. 1665 = a.d. 1354.
Fol. 1 contains a deed of purchase of this volume, bar- barously scrawled, by Matthew ibn Behnam, J>o]jTLO ,_o| wjA!sD, from rJLSQ rm. ZjiD (sic), A.d. 1831.
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Paper, about 8^ in. by 6^ ; 323 leaves, some of which are stained by water and slightly mutilated, e.g. ff. 64, 145 and 169 ;
33 quires, signed with letters, mostly of 10 leaves (A^ had
originally 12); leaves are now wanting at the beginning and after ff. 4, 5, 25, 315 and 323 ; 18 or 19 lines in a page. The writing is a good, regular, Nestorian serta. This manuscript is dated A. Gr. 1998 = a.d. 1687 (watermark, the three crescents). It contains
Works of Isho'-dadh Marozaya (of Maro or Merv), bishop of
Hedhatta or al-Hadithah, Xwjcsvli , near Mosul (see B. (J. iii.
1, p. 210).
I. Extracts from his commentary on part of the Old Testa- ment, viz. Genesis and Exodus. Imperfect. Subscription, f. 12 b,
II. The commentary on the Four Gospels ; viz. 1. S. Matthew, f. 13 a,
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liSSjsoo ;vQi5Vaoa ^'6sa ^ JUk^o \>Y>\<a .^x.*3 ^a^ap (sic) l^^oiisop sa^oac. w.aM ^j^^o* pimS .^cuL.3J:i ^is3k^9
^ijjiibo .^ie>oij^*^ ^«o^^3^9 ^is^boo of^aiixi o-jlcnlp
;^0iXfl\3 23b\900 ^.iy^bASO .^SO^f LA3uiQ9O)3O0^jQ>o5^3 .^6^a9 2?iS0S< -^^ )=°^^ ^^^ ^?^ *N^^ .^JSA9
JAi^is^ lisia^a .i£[*iol ute^ao^ .^a^ ♦^X^^iol
2. S.Mark, f. 145 6.
3. S. Luke, f. 169 b.
4. S. John, f. 237 a.
The colophon, now imperfect, f. 323 b, gives the date as above, and states that this manuscript was begun in the village of 'Abhd-isho' in the district of Sapna (see Hoffmann, Aiiszilge aus syr. Akteti pers. Mdrtyrer, p. 192 sq.)
.2300^ ^o) ?^a^ 23k33 007 *^33o^ aJa ^Ax ^ox .^^ ;»oxtj ;o^^o <« ;j^ou ^jd^ 3o^2^
58 Add. 1978, 1974, 1975
.;iou3i3 ^2 ^iaL3 .;&a) ^^a ^^3s2 *^ ^os^is 5^isA2 «:• Z&3^o3 ^3 :sji/^o 23^o .lx*iio 3u3 ;2ba^Ji^o
.;a2a «\^^? o^>^*^>Jita .Uy^oio U^^p 23^23 .;io]
^
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Paper, about 10 in. by 7j, with 25 or 26 lines in each page. Written in a neat Nestorian serta of the xviith cent.
Three leaves from the twenty-second quire («£na) of a manu- script of the New Testament, according to the Peshitta version, containing
2 Corinthians, ii. 3 — vi. 13.
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Paper, about 14^ in. by 11^; 126 leaves, of which the first two and the last are blank ; 13 quires, signed with letters,
of 10, 12 (A^) and 4 {\t,) leaves; 2 columns of 20 or 21 lines.
Thick, coarse paper, without watermark. The writing is a fine, large, Nestorian serta, of the year 1897 = A.D. 1586. There are many attempts at ornament in the volume, e.g. fF. 3 6, 76, 9 6, 13 6, 28 6, 32 6 (full page, cross), 53 6, 56 a (hanging lamp), 56 6 (our Lord riding on the ass), 62 6, 71 a, 73 a, 80 a (cross) ; on f.
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70 a a large space has been left blank for an ornament, but never filled up. The volume contains
A Lectionary from the Gospels for the Sundays, Festivals and Commemorations of the whole Year, according to the use of the Church of Mosul, f.Sb:
4^2o 23l^30 lhaJ3pJ*p •iki:'' ^T^p ^y^ l'^^?
The text is fully pointed with all the vowels, marks of inter- punction, intonation, etc.
1. The first Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 3 b,
S. Luke i. 1—25.
2. The second Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 5 a,
S. Luke i. 26—56.
3. The third Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 6 a,
S. Luke i. 57—80.
4. The fourth Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 7 a,
S. Matthew i. 18—25.
5. The Nativity of our Lord, f. 7 b, S. Luke ii. 1—20.
.«. ado3 o]y^p 2p2Xd
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6. The first Sunday after the Nativity, f. 8 b,
3A k^ado 07^*10^3 '^?^ ^^?? ^?^ ^Jitia>^3
S. Matthew ii. 1—18.
7. The Commemoration of the Virgin Mary, £ 9 b,
S. Matthew i. 1—25.
8. Another lesson for the same, to be read in lyar, f. 10 b,
S. John ii. 12, 13 ; 8. Matthew xiii. 53 — 57, xii. 46 — 50 ; S. Luke xi. 27—29 ; S. John xix. 26, 27 ; S. Luke i. 46—56.
9. The Commemoration in Summer, same lesson as no. 2, f. 11 b,
^S^b ;=t3L33k^ "^^^P oar ^Sbti ^^? ;iaao33
.2S30JQ»3
/ ■
10. The second Sunday after the Nativity, f. 116,
.o^lyad: ^^oboaa ,^a^p laXi aXaa ^?^? ^^'^^? S. Luke ii. 21—52.
11. The Epiphany, f. 13 6,
"N?^? ^h^,?P ^?^?
S. Matthew iii. 1—17.
12. The Commemoration of S. John the Baptist, f. 14 6,
S. Mark vi. 14 — 29, with the last three words of S. Matthew xiv. 12.
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13. The first Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 15 b,
• ^ If . • • ^ • ' I • , •
S. Luke iv. 14—30.
14. Monday after the Epiphany, Prayer of the Virgins, f. 16 b,
S. John xvi. 23—33.
15. Tuesday after the Epiphany, f. 16 6,
S. Matthew vii. 1—14.
16. Wednesday after the Epiphany, f. 16 i.
S. Luke xviii. 1 — 14.
17. Thursday after the Epiphany, the Commemoration of Mar John Azrak, f. 16 6,
.;^o^b4 ?^? oar ^y>i
S. Matthew xxiv. 45 — xxv. 23.
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18. The Commemoration of S. Peter and S. Paul, f. 16 b,
S. Matthew xvi. 13—19 ; S. John xxi. 15—25.
19. The second Sunday after the Epiphan}^, f. 18 a,
.^oiso Saa u4oS<9 .;^3 bisas M.3Nb ;id;ax^3 S. John i. 1—28.
20. The Commemoration of the Evangelists, f. 10 b,
S. Matthew ix. 35 — x. 15.
21. The third Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 20 b,
S. John i. 29—42.
22. The Commemoration of S. Stephen, f. 21 a,
S. Matthew xi. 20—80, xxiii. 29—39.
23. The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 22 b,
S. John i. 43— ii. 11.
24. The Commemoration of the Greek Doctors, f. 23 b,
S. Matthew iv. 23— v. 19.
25. The fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 25 a,
.23oSJ.9 ^ya .wAo^p ■^? ^^^? ^^^? ^^^>r^
S. John ii. 23— iii. 21.
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26. The Monday of the Prayer of the Ninevites, f 26 a,
.^o^p ^V^^? ^^osbia S. Matthew xviii. 23—35.
27. The Tuesday of do., f. 26 h,
S. Luke xviii. 1 — 14.
28. The Wednesday of do., f. 26 h,
^yh ^'Tts^sahp ^^ob oar \*yJti ^^o^a .itV'iala
S. Matthew vi. 1—18.
29. The Thursday of do., f. 26 6,
S. Luke XV. 3—32.
30. The Commemoration of the Syrian Doctors, f. 26 b,
.L.r30A ?\^S>'*v)B ^'aAoaa
S. Matthew xvi. 24 — xvii. 9.
31. The sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 27 6,
S. John iii. 22— iv. 3.
32. The Commemoration of any one Saint, f. 28 b,
^^ , 5 ' • , • ^ ■ , • •
S. Matthew xxiv. 45 — xxv. 23.
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33. The seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 30 a,
.;^^^ ;ieoiJci uAO^p .;^,3 aisap ^^? ^^=^>r?
S. Matthew vii. 28— viii. 13.
34. The Commemoration of the Dead, f. 30 b,
S. Matthew xxv. 31—46.
35. The eighth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 31 b,
S. Mark i. 1—11.
36. The Commemoration of the Forty Martyrs, f. 32 a,
.^diou ?*^^'>^^ 6ai mSwO .2pc^ tf^^^? ^'^??? S. Matthew iv. 23— v. 19.
37. The first Sunday in Lent, f. 33 a,
S. Matthew iii. 16— i v. 11.
38. Monday in the first week of Lent, f. 33 b,
S. Matthew v. 17—37.
39. Tuesday in do., f. 34 b,
.^o^p ;isiiiA3ii ^4^p ;rda^S^b
S. Matthew v. 38—48.
40. Wednesday in do., f. 35 b, S. Matthew vi. 1—18.
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41. Thursday in do., f. 36 b,
.^O^'? lis'^^ ^^^?? ;33L3dLba^3 S. Matthew vi. 19—34.
42. Friday in do., f. 37 b,
.^o^'P iktisoyh icaohSi^ S. Matthew vii. 1—14.
43. The second Sunday in Lent, f. 38 a,
S. Matthew vii. 15—27.
44. The second Friday in Lent, f. 39 a,
.;»o^9 ^V^^? ;iS30a^9
S. Matthew xviii. 23—35.
45. The third Sunday in Lent, f. 39 b,
S. Matthew xx. 17—28.
46. The third Friday in Lent, f. 40 b,
S. Mark xii. 13—34.
47. The fourth Sunday in Lent, f. 42 a,
S. Matthew xxi. 23—46.
48. Monday of the mid week in Lent, f. 43 b,
. ;^o^3 ^2s*^^ l^^? ^^'^p^^^?
S. John V. 1—18.
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49. Tuesday of do., f. 44 h,
S. John V. 19—47.
50. Wednesday of do., f. 46 a,
.;:0o^3 ^^>^^? tivnaia S. John vi. 51— 69.
51. Thursday of do., f. 47 a,
S. John vii. 1—13.
52. The fourth Friday in Lent, f 48 a,
S. John vii. 14—36.
53. The fifth Sunday in Lent, f. 49 a,
S. John vii. 37— viii. 20.
54. The fifth Friday in Lent, f 50 h,
.^ola <sbo^3 (sic) ^^poi^b
S. John viii. 31—59.
55. The sixth Sunday in Lent, f. 52 h,
S. John ix. 39— X. 21. "
56. The sixth Friday in Lent, or the Friday of Lazarus, f 54 a,
S. John xi. 1 — 45.
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57. The seventh Sunday in Lent, and the Festival of the Palms, f. 56 b,
.;i^o23 Ijil^po Isoo^p l^^P J^=>4^?^? S. Matthew xx. 29— xxi. 22.
58. Monday of the last week in Lent, f. 58 a,
.^iDoIa lisA**! li^Sip ;acbu.oJsb
S. John xi. 47 — xii. 11.
59. Tuesday of do., f. 59 b,
.^o^p lis*y**l l^^P ^^^^^^?
S. John xii. 12—43.
GO. Wednesday of do., f. 61 a,
.^o^p lisAJi liMp xiSa^lp S. John xiii. 1 — 17.
61. Thursday of the Passover, f. 62 6,
S. Matthew xxvi. 1—5, 14—24; S. John xiii. 22—27 ; S. Mat- thew xxvi. 25—30.
62. The Night (Eve) of the Friday of the Passion, f. 63 b,
S. Matthew xxvi. 31—44 ; S. Luke xxii. 43—45 ; S. Matthew xxvi. 45 — 75.
63. The Day of the Friday of the Passion, f. 66 b,
S. Luke xxii. 63 — xxiii. 12; S. Matthew xxvii. 19; S. Luke xxiii. 13 — 23 ; S. Matthew xxvii. 24, 25 ; S. Luke xxiii. 24 — 45; S, Matthew xxvii. 51 — 54 ; S. John xix. 23 — 42.
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64. The Day of the Great Saturday, f. 70 h,
.;^iif» ^4^? ^=^^2? ^^
S. Matthew xxvii. 62—66.
65. The Mysteries (celebration of the Eucharist) on the Great Saturday, f. 71 a,
.ika'i li>as.^ U'ilp lllyjti S. Matthew xxviii.
66. The Morning of the Resurrection, f. 72 o,
S. Luke xxiv. 1 — 12.
67. The Sunday of the Resurrection, f 73 a,
-V?^? Ol^^oltib ;3i33w^3
S, John XX. 1 — 18.
68. Monday of the Week of Weeks, f. 74 a,
S. John xiv. 18—31.
69. Tuesday of do., f 75 a,
S. Luke xxiv. 13 — 35.
70. Wednesday of do., f. 76 a,
S. John XV. 1—25.
71. Thursday of do., f. 77 &,
S. Matthew ix. 35— x. 15.
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72. The Friday of the Confessors, f. 77 6,
S. Matthew x. 16—33.
73. The New Sunday, f. 79 a,
S. John XX. 19—31.
74. The Commemoration of S. George, f. 80 a,
S. Matthew x. 37—42 ; xix. 27—30.
75. The third Sunday of the Resurrection, f. 81 a,
S. John xiv. 1 — 14.
76. The Commemoration of Rabban Hormizd, f. 81 b,
S. Matthew xx. 1—16.
77. The fourth Sunday of the Resurrection, f. 81 b,
S. John xvi. 16—33.
78. The Commemoration of Shemoni and her sons, f. 82 b,
.0iJ3bo uio^xb iL'ypopp
S. Matthew xx. 20—28.
79. Tlie fifth Sunday of the Resurrection, f. 83 a,
S. John xxi. 1 — 14.
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<S(). The sixth Sunday oi' the Resurrection, f. 83 a,
.}m J^3 l^a%3px .oi^^os^p .;^hoIdb ;^j:3 ;3cbx^9
S. John xvii.
81. The Ascension of our Lord, f. 85 b,
S. Luke xxiv. 86 — 53.
82. The Sunday after the Ascension, f. 86 a,
S. Mark xvi. 2—20.
83. Pentecost, f. 87 a,
S. John xiv. 15—17, 25, 26; xv. 26— xvi. 15.
84. The lesson of the Adoration, f. 88 a,
S. John iv. 3—30.
85. The Friday of Gold, f. 88 b,
S. Luke vii. 2—23.
86. The second Sunday of the Apostles, f. 89 b,
S. Luke vii. 31—50.
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88. The fourth Sunday of do., f. 92 a,
S. Luke vi. 12—46. ^ 89. The fifth Sunday of do., f. 94 a,
S. Luke xii. 16 — 34.
90. The sixth Sunday of do., f. 95 a,
T • I / \» ft ■ ,• ' !• ' If ^ t ' I '
S. Luke xii. 57 — xiii. 17.
91. The seventh Sunday of do., f. 96 a,
S. Luke xiii. 22 — 35.
92. The hxst Friday of the Week of the Ai30stles, f. 97 a,
S. Matthew x. 37— xi. 15.
93. The first Sunday of Summer, which is Nusardel, f. 98 a,
S. Luke xiv. 1 — 14.
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94. The Commemoration of S. Thomas, on the 3nl of Tammuz, f. 99 a,
\sd <!> fO^iss ^^^^3 ^^^? ^Ol^ J^^ ^aAOSS
S. John XX. 19—31.
95. The second Sunday of Summer, f. 99 a,
S. Luke XV. 3—32.
96. The Commemoration of Mar Cyriacus, on the loth of Tammuz, f. 100 h,
S. Matthew ii. 16—18, xi. 11—14, xviii. 1—14.
97. The third Sunday of Summer, f. 101 6,
S. John ix. 1 — 38.
98. The fourth Sunday of Summer, f. 103 h,
S. Mark vii. 1—23.
99. The Feast of the Revelation, on the 6th of Ab, f. 105 a, oaf ^yJb .o2 ^"LIj lisXJ3 adk^^^a ?%t\\^a ihl^^
S. Matthew xvi. 24— xvii. 9.
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100. The fifth Sunday of Summer, f. 105 a,
S. Luke xvi. 19 — xvii. 10.
101. The sixth Sunday of Sunniier, f lOG h,
S. Luke xvii. 5 — 19.
102. The seventh Sunday of Summer, f. 107 a,
S. Luke xviii. 1 — 14.
103. The first Sunday of Elias, f. 108 a,
.O7^0u&b ^ci>t*rtS Ol^^o^p •^^? i*^P^ ^-3?^?
S. Luke xviii. 85 — xix. 10.
104. The second Sunday of Elias, f. 109 a,
■aLs uASooo .0^3 -^i? X"^^? ^iJ^J^y? S. Matthew xiii. 1—23.
105. The third Sunday of Elias, f. 110 a,
S. Matthew xiii. 24—42.
lOG. The Feast (of the Invention) of the Cross, f. Ill 6
.^ ^^? ?^3 ^^^? "^^^ ^?4^$? ^,M>'? S. Luke xxiv. 13 — 35.
107. The Sunday after the Invention (of the Cross), f 111 b,
S. Matthew iv. 12— v. 16.
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108. The fifth Sunday of Elias, f. 113 (/,
S. Matthew xvii. 14—27.
109. The sixth Sunday of Elias, f. 114 a,
S. Matthew xv. 21—38.
110. The seventh Sunday of Elias, f. 115 a,
S. Matthew xviii. 1—19.
111. The first Sunday of Moses, f. 116 «,
S. Matthew xx. 1—16.
112. The second Sunday of Moses, f. 117 a,
.lyJb oaS U>'^ a]iss^6s*^ .^xoiso:^ ^S^b ;:3dL3X^5 S. Mark V. 22—34.
113. The third Sunday of Moses, f. 117 b,
S. John V. 1—18.
114. The fourth Sunday of Moses, f 117 h,
.oia^ou ^ : ^o^s -^?^? l^'^^? ^=>^-3^r? S. John iv. 3—30.
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115. The first Simday of the Cousecration of the Church, f. 119 «,
S. Matthew xvi. 13—19, xxi. 12, 13.
116. The second Sunday of do., f. 119 b,
'py.acS <^6s>^ w*iQ^3 .;is?k^?0Lti3 ^3^? ;aai3x^3
S. Matthew xii. 1—21.
117. The third Sunday of do., f. 120 b,
yMOX ^ : wAOS<3 4^3^ <3:'?9^? ^^^? ^-^^r?
S. John ii. 12—22.
118. The fourth Sunday of do., f. 121 b,
S. Matthew xxii. 41— xxiii. 12, 16—22. Subscription, p. 122 b,
Then follow the lessons of the Gazza, .l%\p ^^'yo ^iJaxxy yaois, viz.
1. The Consecration of Catholics, Metropolitans and Bishops, f. 122 6,
: aCJUQ>d2o : o^3\,^boo iJO^oisJbp ly^iolap 6s*:ioyJci
.sAo^o^o Job%Ny^i ou^a oar ^yJd
See no. 18 above.
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2. The Reception of Catholics, Metropolitans and Bishops, f. 122 h,
C3U^^3 OCT? ^Sbd .oJAa^lo : 'i^^o : oisB^ H^cJti^
See no. 53 above.
3. For the Dead,
a. For Catholics, f. 122 b,
See no. 32 above.
b. For Metropolitans, f. 122 b,
.jax\ha\ w*ito3 aujs:^9 oar w^kti .o^'i^^bo Xs^^
See no. 74 above.
c. For Bishops, f. 122 b,
ya^ox^ li^o'y^ auds^s oar wika .aBUQ>^2 t^iwp
.;^.>I^3!B ;^oqLX See no. 92 above.
f/. For Doctors, f. 122 Z>,
.}^o^ ;3.Sl^i cju^aa oar ^yJb .?AS>» XitS
See no. 24 above.
e. For Monks and Guides,
;=i3:.3x^ cuft^a oar w.xti .;vS>Ht aoo ^xl^ \i«3
.;3;o»3 ^yJd
See no. Ill above.
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/ For Priests, f. 122 6,
See no. 30 above.
ff. For Deacons, f. 122 b,
^^xi^ oaik^b ^^lo y^ •9V3B-S ^ l^o^p ik^^L^
See no. 49 above.
h. For Nuns, f. 123 ft, ;^^^p jax^a ^^a? oor ukti •^ ;balti ^jb \i«3
See no. 87 above.
i. For any man, f. 123 a, .2^1^9 ^3^03^3 ^^^^3 oor MSb^ JU..^ \i.3
See no. 34 above.
j. For youths, f. 123 a,
.^0739 ;fS303k^3 oor m3^ ^SJuS.^ ^3
See no. 85 above.
/.'. For those that are slain, f. 123 a.
.^pobop oor ^yJei AVVyti ^4^? See no. 72 above.
I. For Women, f. 123 a,
.^ob03 w.S^3 ^=diL33u»3 oor uXb ^ ^4"?
See no. 112 above,
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m. For children, f. 123 a,
.l^lp ^3L» liaa a^a ouJS^s oar ^a^ -^As^ \iw3
See no. 110 above.
The colophon, ff. 123asqq., states that this volume was finished on Wednesday the 10th of Ab, A. Gr. 1897 = a.d. 1586, in the village of Wasta, at the foot of the Jabal Jildi, near the fortress of Gurdekel, during the patriarchate of Mar Elias, the metropolitan being his brother Mar Hannan-isho'. The scribe was the priest Joseph, son of David, son of Ra'is Hanna, from the village of Man.sorlya on the Tigris, above Beth-Zabdai, on
the road to Fenk (u^l^ ^■^), near the convents of Mar Aha and Mar Y5hannan. He wrote it at the cost of the priest Rabban Sergius, the monk rabban Isaiah, and rabban Sergius the younger, the prior, for the convent of Mar 'Abd-isho' the Anchoret on the hill above the fortress of 'Amidiya, to the east of it (see Badger, The Nestorians, i. 252).
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Paper, about llf in. by 8; 194 leaves; 20 quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the first of 8, and the last of 6 (a leaf is wanting after f. 193); 21 lines is a full page. The writing is a good, regular, Nestorian serta. This volume is dated A. Gr. 2013 = a.d. 1701 (watermark, three crescents, with
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A Lectiouary from the Old Testament (including the Apo- crypha) and the Acts of the Apostles for the Sundays, Feasts and Commemorations of the whole year, according to the use of the Convent of Mar Abraham and Mar Gabriel, called the Daira 'Ellaita or Upper Convent, at Mosul, f. 1 b,
«3iS9^ r^??-^ ^^yJC^ ^O^^a *\^? ^^^ ^ m3^3 ^^N*^ 2^?3 uQ>ak^:s23 ^JQ>^ ^2 .^iiao39o
1. The 1st Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 1 b,
.0^9 oa>\ .}^\»
Gen. xvii. ; Isaiah xlii, 18 — xliii. 13. The second lesson is prefaced by the words OJJE .<n^>SlM>, and at the end we read,
* See Badger's Nestorians, vol. ii. p. 20.
B. C.
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2. The second Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 4 a,
Numbers xxii. 20 — xxiii. 80; Isaiah xliii. 14 — xliv. 5.
<* yi* <* ^pp ^l\yt }o^i .^30X 8. The third Sunday of the Annunciation, f, 6 b, .^^^^^ jSp oar o^^o^p .liaoAS ;^^^9 ;33aaM*3 Gen. xviii. 1 — 19 ; Judges xiii. 2 — 24.
<* o <* ;cr^2 j;a5 aA .;«3QkX
4. The fourth Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 9 a,
Gen. xxiv. 50— xxv. 28; 1 Sam. i. 1—19.
5. The Nativity of our Lord, f. 116,
.«^3i»9 ^,?^? <^,?^? Isaiah vii. 10 — 16
viii. 8 (y^oodia? ;b0O3 Joer^o)— 10, 16—18, ix. 1—3, 6, 7 ;
Micah iv. 1 — 3, v. 1 — 8 (strange mistake of •^3«2i for v^OMla).
?*Mjriaob orptSoio^ <• o^Js >^M la^si^ 2aa^ .^^booe
6. The first Sunday after the Nativity, f. 13 a,
.l6sptopa Sua ^a^ o!^y.&o^9 -2?^ ^^^? ^sxaa^is
Gen. xxi. 1—21 ; 1 Sam. i. 19—28.
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7. The Commemoration of the blessed Virgin Mary, f. 15 a,
Exod. XV. 11 — 21, Jerem. xxxi. 13 — 17, Micah vi. 1 — 5; Acts 1—14.
8. The second Sunday after the Nativity, f. 16 h, fi^oMa^ o7^*&a^9 -2?^ ^^^^ ^b^a ^at i>Ma
Exod. ii. 1 — 10 ; Isaiah xlix. 1 — 6.
9. The Epiphany, f. 17 &,
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Num. xxiv. 2 — 24 (mistake of o^ao^ for a^^O'jS) ; Isaiah xi. 1—5, 9 (;^32 ;^^^9 i\,»), 10, xii. 4—6.
10. The Commemoration of S. John the Baptist, f. 19 «,
.}A,>^^y ^^ m3M9 ^3A099
Isaiah xxxv. 3—10, xl. 1—8 ; Acts xiii. 13—33 (♦^OVJiA).
<* Ua ^^hA9M .^90X 6—2
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11, The first Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 21 a,
.;^3 ^^^^ 2^^ JaLX^iSMS
Exod. iii. 1—15 ; Isaiah xliv. 21— xlv. 4 («.*a^ ^yJO^o),
12. The Commemoration of S. Peter and S. Paul, f. 23 a, 2 Kings iv. 8—27 ; Acts ix. 82—42, xiv. 7—14, xx. 7—12.
13. The second Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 26 a,
Num. x. 29 — xi. 10 ; Isaiah xlv. 11 — 17.
14. The Commemoration of the Evangelists, f. 27 b, 1 Kings xviii. 30—39 ; Acts v. 12—32.
15. The third Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 29 b, Num. xi. 11 — 20; Isaiah xlv. 18 — xlvi, 4.
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16. The Commemoration of S. Stephen, f. 31 a,
1 Kings xxi. 1—21 ; Acts vi. 8— vii. 1, 51—60, viii. 1, 2.
17. The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 33 h, Num. xi. 23 — 35 ; Isaiah xlvi. 5 — 13.
18. The Commemoration of the Greek Doctors, f. 35 a,
1 Sam. xxii. 6 (Joo) ^Sft^j i.^o2.XO)— 21 ; Acts xxi. 27—34, xxii. 30 — xxiii. 16.
<* ^'pTbii? Koa^>^oak^ <* ^pfs V^o^ .U^ox
19. The fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 38 a, .290^9 ^?9 Ol^dAOVip •^^,?? ^bOMiS ^aLX33hM9
Deut. xviii. 9—22; Isaiah xlviii. 12—20.
20. The Monday of the Prayer of the Ninevites, f. 39 h, Gen. xviii. 20—33 ; Isaiah Ixiii. 17— Ixiv. 12.
<« NlAsa *> 2ia^S ^^^ ;l^ .u^ox
mm ' II • » (I II
21. The Tuesday of do., f. 41 a, Isaiah Iviii. ; Habakkuk iii.
*:* u^mSim loi^i ;/aitb fisiio .u^ox
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22. The Wednesday of do., f. 42 a,
Joel i. 1 — 31 ; Jonah iii. and iv.
*> OdU^ U^ «\0^ .J^Sox 23. The Thursday of do., f. 44 a,
Isaiah Ixv. 16,
.^^bia <^Sais»9* l*i:so isipi U^ai Jerem.
24. The Commemoration of the Syrian Doctors, f. 44 b,
.^90jQ> ^^^S^^ ^iaoaa
2 Kings xiii. 14 — 21 ; Acts xii. 25 — xiii. 12.
25. The sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 46 a, Deut. xxiv. 9 — 22 (ending with ta*3^^0O) ; Isaiah Ixiii. 7 — 16.
26. The Commemoration of any one Saint, f. 47 b, Isaiah xli. 8—16; Acts xviii. 19 (uQ30^e^ \^o)— xix. 20.
* No more of the text is given in the MS.
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27. The seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 50 a,
Deut. xiv. 2 (^SibO ^3\ ^p) — xv. 4 ; Isaiah xlii. 5 — 17.
28. The Commemoration of the Dead, f 52 a,
• I /a » ■ ■
Ezek. xxxvii. 1 — 14; Ecclesiasticus xliv. 1 — xlv. 5.
29. The eighth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 54 a.
^ ,< »(V ,1 » • > • II" • '^ i« ' ■ ■
Exod. XV. 22—26, xvi. 4—7 (^3LbO? OV«aoX), 9, 10; Isaiah xliv. 23. 24 (to \a ^Mli-?), Ixv. 17—24, Ixvi. 1.
30. The first Sunday in Lent, f. 56 «,
Exod. xxxiv. 1 — 7 (to las 'J^^), 27—35 ; Isaiah Iviii.
<* \ <* >^^y U^ ^^\ ^\ -U^ox
31. Monday in the first week of Lent, f. 58 a, Gen. i. 1 — 18 ; Joshua i. 1 — 11.
.^pj? ^V*^ ^^*??V '^^^^
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32. Tuesday in do., f. 59 b,
Gen. i. 19 — ii. 7 ; Joshua i. 12 — ii. 11.
<* ;I^ ;^b^ iiiAi3 .i^^ox
33. Wednesday in do., f. 62 a, Gen. ii. 8—25 ; Joshua ii. 12—24.
34. Thursday in do., f. 63 b, Gen. iii. 1 — 19 ; Joshua iii. 1 — 13.
35. Friday in do., f. 65 b,
.^iboo^a ;^«^3Ld ;^3okv<'3 Gen. iii. 20 — iv. 16 ; Joshua iii. 14 — iv. 9.
36. The second Sunday in Lent, f. 68 a, Gen. V. 19—31 ; Joshua iv. 15—24.
37. The second Friday in Lent, f. 69 a, Gen. V. 32— vi. 22; Joshua v. 1—12.
Add. 1976 89
38. The third Sunday in Lent, f. 71 ci,
Gen. vii. 1 — 24; Joshua v. 13 — vi. 4.
<* 2X.2 yi^'is ^oao .^hox 39. The third Friday in Lent, f. 73 a,
Gen. ix. 8—29 ; Joshua vi. 5—26.
<* MiOMO ^3^ 0333 \yV) .U^OX 40. The fourth Sunday in Lent, f. 75 b,
2^a]'ss^ o)^yAaS<^ *> ^^o^? ^.Si.3923 ^-aLX-sdw^a
Gen. xi. ; Joshua vi. 26 — vii. 15.
41. Monday of the fourth week in Lent, f 78 b, Gen. xii. 1 — 10 ; Joshua vii. 16 — 26.
<* ;2^^ ^hi ;3^ .^box
42. Tuesday of do., f. 79 6, Gen. xii. 11 — xiii. 7; Joshua viii. 1 — 17.
*:* pl ^ Myi^ Ikilao .^3ok
90 Add. 1976
■lo. Wednesday of do., f. 81 b,
Gen. xiii. 8—18 ; Joshua viii. 18—29.
44. Thursday of do., f. 83 b,
Gen. xiv. 1—17 ; Joshua viii. 30—85.
f ' * ' ▼ "
45. Friday of do., f. 85 a,
Gen. xiv. 18 — xv. 15 ; Joshua ix. 1 — 14.
46. The fifth Sunday in Lent, f. 87 a, Gen. xvi., xvii. ; Joshua ix. 15 — 27.
47. The fifth Friday in Lent, f. 90 a, Gen. xviii. 1 — 19 ; Joshua xiv. 6 — 15.
48. The sixth Sunday in Lent, f. 91 a,
.;Lq>2 oLi 07^^0S<3 .^0^9 ;iSX,3 ;A2C3X.«3
Joshua xxi. 43 — xxii. 9.
Add. 1976 91
49. The sixth Friday in Lent, or the Friday of Lazarus, f. 93 b,
.bi^3 d^^*2o .^o^9 ^X3 ;6«^3oa^3
Gen. xix. 27—38; Joshua xxii. 10 (^^S OiJO) — 20.
50. The seventh Sunday in Lent or Palm Sunday, f. 95 a,
Gen. xlix. 1—12, 22—26 ; Zechar. iii. 10, iv., vii. 9, 10, viii. 4, 5, 12, 16—20, ix. 9—12.
51. Monday of the last week in Lent, f. 98 a,
.;boo^3 ;^/3m2 }^^u;^ ?aui:.A3rf.9is3
Gen. xxxvii. 1 — 22 ; Joshua xxii. 21 — 29.
52. Tuesday of do., f. 100 a,
.^^90^3 ;;S*iM2 }iS3LX9 ;3LXJJS^^3 Gen. xxxvii. 23 — 36 ; Joshua xxii. 30 — xxiii, 1.
*:* ^o^i 2s4^ is&i ^-^l Z*3^ .U^OX
53. Wednesday of do., f. 101 6,
.^0^3 ;N.3yM2 ^6cuc3 ?at nvnaia Gen. xxxix. 7 — xl. 23 ; Joshua xxiii. 1 (jtO StOXM) — 13.
<* um302 3^2? ^^l 'U^OX
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54. Thursday of the Passover, f. 104 a,
Exod. xii. 1—18 (Ix^ •^O^al^); Zechar. ix. 9—12, xi. 4, 5, 12, 13, xii. 9—14, xiii. 7—9.
55. The Friday of the Crucifixion, f. 106 6, Isaiah Hi. 13— liii. 12 ; Daniel ix. 20—27.
56. The Great Saturday of the Passion, f 108 a,
.U^^ ;6dia 2^3d:9
Gen. xxii. 1 — 19; Jonah ii. 2 — 11.
57. The Great Sunday of the Resurrection, f. 110 a, Isaiah Ix. 1—7 ; 1 Sam. ii. 1 — 10.
<* biili
58. Monday of the Week of Weeks, fill a, Isaiah Ix. 9 (ya>ftLa ^)— 22 ; Acts ii. 14—36.
Add. 1976 93
59. Tuesday of do., f. 113 a,
Isaiah Ixi. 1 — 9 ; Acts ii. 37—47.
60. Wednesday of do., f. 114 6, Isaiah Ixi. 10— Ixii. 5 ; Acts iv. 23—31.
01. Thursday of do., f 115 6, Isaiah liv. 1 — 15 ; Acts vi. 1 — 7.
62. The Friday of the Confessors, f. 116 a.
The prayer of Azariah, 2 — 22 [Daniel iii.] ; Acts vi. 8 — vii, 1, 51—60, viii. 1, 2.
«^o^iaAe3^ <* ^a\A ^^Oisl ^^Vyy . ;»3ax
63. The Commemoration of S. George, 24th of Nisan, f. 117 6,
^OuJJ ;^u332o
Daniel vi. 6—24 (24s^JL3 0^30 .^O^ ^^2 Ou»32o
i^Lip "pytio ^aS^^ v^o^oboahd .;^eu32 .^2 e\a2);
Acts xxvi. 1 (jq^oAol^ ^x.0])— 18.
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64. The Sunday after the Resurrection, called the New Sunday, f. 120 b,
Isaiah Iv. 4—12 ; Acts iv. 32— v. 11.
*:* y^ Uoo so^ ;» .Ikhox
65. The third Sunday after the Resurrection, f. 122 a, Sis3 ^ o}6y&o^9 .l^'so^Jd diss? ;^S^? ^xxisx^a
Isaiah Ivi. 1—7 ; Acts v. 34—42.
66. The fourth Sunday after the Resurrection, f. 123 6,
Isaiah xlix. 13 — 23 ; Acts viii. 14 — 25.
67. The fifth Sunday after the Resurrection, f. 124 b,
Isaiah xlix. 7 — 13 ; Acts ix. 1 — 19 (St^jf^lo)-
Add. 1976 95
68. The sixth Sunday after the Resurrection, f. 126 b,
Isaiah Ivi. 9—11, Hi. 7—12 ; Acts x. 1—10.
69. The Ascension of our Lord, f. 128 a, 2 Kings ii. 1—15 ; Acts i. 1—14.
<* aJJLA
70. The Sunday after the Ascension, f, 130 a, .0}JN0^233 oar 0):Sa&Q^3 .^ja^aiQ* 9^33 ^X33u*3
Isaiah vi. ; Acts i. 15 — 26.
*:* 07S )i3\3 Uiio eiXi^a .^aSox
71. Pentecost, f. 131 6,
Exod. xix. 1—9, XX. 18—21 (o9^0 ^JAmOh ^ bo^ O^O
;,Vy^\) ; Acts ii. 1—21.
;S30kti yM093 Olis<S«^i^ *> ^93 ^W^ IsS . U^OX
72. The Friday of Gold, f. 133 b, Isaiah xxxv. 3 — 10 ; Acts iii.
96 Add. 1976
73. The second Sunday of the Fast of the Apostles, f. 135 a.
.9
Joel ii. 15—26 (^o;^ ^OI ♦.^^^ ^3^?) ; Acts iv. 5—22.
74. The third Sunday of do., f. 137 a, Deut. i. 3—17 (OOI Jo?i^2?) ; Isaiah i. 1—9.
75. The fourth Sunday of do., f. 138 h,
Deut. i. 16 (^^^.t ^:s*oai)— 33 ; Isaiah i. 10—20.
76. The fifth Sunday of do., f 140 b,
Deut. i. 33 (;Ai3 230i3)— ii. 1 ; Isaiah i. 21—31.
<* 00070 *. OO^'aiais^ 0^30 . ^30X
77. The sixth Sunday of do., f. 142 a, . OOX A^OSU ^a^ 07dyAOS<9 . ;^Ax9 ;^af3 ;aL3L33M3 Deut. iv. 1 — 10 ( Ai30m3) ; Isaiah ii.
<* o!SJ.^^2o ?Ia«^ oia . ^Sox
Add. 1976 101
95. The fifth Sunday of the Invention and the first of Moses, f. 171 a,
07^*10^3 -^9^? l^PJ^O ;^#0J:3 U^O^? ^OXS^mS Deut. xi. 1 — 12; Isaiah xl. 1 — 17.
90. The sixth Sunday of the Invention and the second of Moses, f. 173 a,
oi^yAO^^ .^9^? ^3^3o ;^m9j:3 lifA^ ^axjsy^^
.;ll ly'ii oaS iM Deut. xi. 13 — xii. 1 ; Isaiah xl. 18 — xli. 7.
<* ;t^V< 030^ .^9AX
97. The seventh Sunday of the Invention and the third of Moses, f. 175 6,
a)^yAoS<^ .^obop ;^S^30 ;^#oJi3 l^axp ^axay**^
Deut. xiii. 12—18 ; Isaiah xli. 8—20.
<* 22bax «^o&2 ^iLs .^30X
98. The eighth Sunday of the Invention and the fourth of Moses, f. 176 a,
Deut. xii. 29 — xiii. 5 ; Isaiah xli. 21 — xlii. 4.
*> l^^l c^ ;o^;XMad: .^aox
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99. The first Sunday of the Dedication of the Church, f 177 6,
Uisao o!fis<AQ^9 .^^Sk^kt j:3oiJ3 Usoya ?nt ia><^3 Exod. xl. 17 — 38 ; Isaiah vi.
100. The second Sunday of do., f. 179 b,
^kp>^ o]^dao^3 .2is>S< Jcaotis ^i*3^3 ?3t ia>*oa
Exod. xxxix. 32 (o>aii-o)— xl. 16; 1 Kings vi. 1, 2, 38 (to
woioaoi^), viii. 1 — 11.
101. The third Sunday of do., f. 181 b,
. ^\\t so
Num. vii. 1—10, 88 (orI^^Ou. Oioj), 89, ix. 15—18 (^a*); Isaiah liv. 1 — 1.5.
<* ^00^30^ uiO^Sio mS^X^ .^aox
102. The fourth Sunday of do., f. 183 b, m'So2 01^uAO.^^ .^tsaAJKpatJs ;^3323 23^X3x^3
.iky^ 62 1 Kings vi. 1—19; 2 Sam. vi. 1—5, 13—19 (sil e^f2o
Add. 1976 103
Subscription, f. 185 b,
^ox «^3^o ,lisit^ iSpOM af^^p if^yti odo\a:
103. Lessons for the Dead, f. 185 b,
.23^ ^3 ^al^ib ^o^
a. For Priests, f. 185 6,
Ecclesiasticus i. 20 (Lagarde, p. 3, 1. 5, uAOu^^oai to o^boX
OMI^O), ii. 7—11 (;Ntli-? ♦\?^)' iii- 1' x^^iv. 13—18, xxxv. 5—7, xxxix. 19, 24 (to w.aio52 7J?Jb), xl. 8, ll,xli. 11 (;baXO); Isaiah xxv. 1—4, 8, 9, xxvi. 1—4, 7—9, 12, 17—19 (to JiaX
h. For Deacons, f. 187 6,
Daniel viii. 1-3 (ft^f^^o), 15 {^:h 2o)o)— 17 (i^ ^S^O ;^32 \^ 'J.^2), X. 20, 21, xii. 2—4, 8—10, 13; Numbers XX. 22—29, xxxiii. 39, Deut. xxxii. 49—52.
104. Lessons omitted in their proper places, f. 189 a, . .K^Ol^^Oa ^'30 Ot.^3 ^^^ ^*t^^^ '??^
104 Add. 1976
a. The Commemoration of Rabban Hormizd, f. 189 a,
Isaiah xli. 8—16 ; Acts xxvii. 21—26, xxviii. 1—5, 6 (o^^t) —9.
o^iaoaA *> ^yJOy ^^i-^ h^ aa^a H .^30lX
b. The Commemoration of S. Thomas, 3rd of Tammuz, f. 190 a,
Isaiah Iv. 4—12 ; Jerem. i. 4—8 (^oj-i^aub ^»), 17, 18, XV. 19—21.
c. The Commemoration of Cyriacus the martyr, 15th of Tammuz, f. 190 6,
The prayer of Azariah, 2 — 22 [Daniel iii.] ; Acts xvii. 22 — 31.
Add. 197G 97
78. The seventh Sunday of do., f. 143 6,
Deut. iv. 10 (wd03btj jaa) — 24 ; Isaiah v. 8 — 25.
79. The last Friday of the week of the Apostles, f. 146 a,
. ?.>.^'\t3 ;^a3LS piSoxs ;isaoa^9
Isaiah xli. 8—20; Acts xiii. 18—23, xiv. 20 (;iX-2 ;»OuSo) —22.
80. The first Sunday of Summer*, or Nusardel, f. 147 b, Deut. iv. 25 — 31 ; Isaiah ii. 22 — iii. 15.
81. The second Sunday of Summer, which is called 'of Hallelain(i),' f. 149 a,
a]is*io^^ .Mi»S>S>Ma 2^btj^Jaoo .}\r»^3 ^^^? ?^UL33m3
Deut. iv. 32—40; Isaiah iii. 16— iv. 6.
<* ^33 230^,^ y?^^^ ^^ .^30X
* The MS. actually has ' The last Sunday of the week of the Apostles,' .U^? l^OaX ^OX^ ;31X33mm9 B. C. "^
98 Add. 1976
82. The third Sunday of Hallelain(i), f. 151 a,
Deut. V. 1 — 16; Isaiah v. 1 — 7.
*:* moiovaJm js^^oo ^ooj^Io 6^!^p^^ .^aox
83. The fourth Sunday of Hallelain(i), f. 152 b,
Deut. V. 16— vi. 3 ; Isaiah ix. 8 — 21.
84. The fifth Sunday of Hallelain(i), f. 154 b,
Levit. xxiii. 34 — 43 ; Isaiah xxviii. 14 — 22.
85. The sixth Sunday of Hallelain(i), f. 156 a,
Levit. xix. 1 — 14 ; Isaiah xxix. 13 — 24.
<* 9A w\o ;o^2 ^^<^ .^aox 86. The seventh Sunday of Summer or of Hallelain(i),
Levit. xix. 15—19 (y^SudO^ ©3^), 35—37, xx. 9—14; Isaiah XXX. 1—15 (♦^aa^oacu\),
<* A^ 23mA .^aox
Add. 1976 99
87. The first Sunday of the week of Elias, f. 159 a,
Deut. vi. 20— vii. 6 (^0^2 ^i^ ?t.>>.h) ; Isaiah xxxi.
88. The second Sunday of do., f. 160 h,
Deut. vii. 7 — 11 ; Isaiah xxx. 15 (♦^^a^sa ^)— 26.
89. The third Sunday of do., f. 161 6,
.^boXLs oi^^^^a a7ts*&QS<3 .?A23 ^fts^^a ;aX33uM3
Deut. vii. 12 — 26 (yiOJo^A^); Isaiah xxxii. 1 — xxxiii. 6.
90. The Feast of the Invention of the Adorable Cross, f. 164 a,
.23y.VQ> ^nAt^b ojisM^acb 292^3
Isaiah lii. 13— liii. 12 ; Acts ii. 14—36.
7-2
100 Add. 1976
91. The Sunday after the Invention and the fourth of Elias, f. 165 a,
Deut. viii. 11 — 20; Isaiah xxxiii. 13 — 21.
*> ^oL aaLa 2^3^ ys/^fy ^ .U^ox
92. The second Sunday of the Invention and the fifth of Elias, f. 166 b,
Deut. ix. 1 — 8 (J^iba^) ; Isaiah xxv. 1 — 8.
93. The third Sunday of the Invention and the sixth of Elias, f. 167 b,
Deut. ix. 13 — 22 ; Isaiah xxvi. 1 — 19.
<* ^^^M «^qASi '^'yi ,U^ox
94. The fourth Sunday of the Invention and the seventh of Elias, f. 169 b,
o7^yAa^^ ^23 J^oxao .J^MtSJis ^323 }aa.33Mia
Deut. X. 12 — 22 ; Isaiah xxviii. 23 — xxix. 12.
*:* A^ O^f^O *s^l ^^ M^OX
Add. 1977 109
7. Commemoration of the Greek and Syrian Doctors, f. 7 b, beginning,
*:* liao ^^i ^93^ jS y»
8. The Commemoration of any one Saint, f. 8 6, beginning,
9. The Friday of the Dead, f. 9 b,
See f. 28 a.
10. The first Sunday in Lent, f. 9 b, beginning,
11. The second Sunday, f. 10 b, beginning,
^Itool 2xm '. ?ut«iiSao ^hl^ 2xa3 ^^i^^opoa o2
12. The third Sunday, f. 11 a, beginning,
^ouAaa '. ;*a^ tH^^^ ^odo ^Sa ^o^,3 o2
<* llia^ aatbftx ;&oojb ^ouojfo ^booiij In this turgama each letter has only one line.
110 Add. 1977
13. The fourth Sunday, f. 11 h, beginning, ^XDOSL^o '. ;Ia^ t^?^ ;boabo Ibo^io ^o^'^ 6l
Ends with the letter b^.
14. Wednesday in the mid week of Lent,
. S^a x*y3,L ^xioa .^ola ^^ii^^ JLiLxiL^Jbis
marg. ^^ft\.\43 : &3XbAM3 , f. 12 a, beginning,
<• loo]^ "pyio isom 2Xm ,2^2 ^vioybSjs Jaao
■■ '■ i" " • mm *■ '■ " \ ■
15. The fifth Sunday in Lent, f. 13 a,
.poJ^^ J;bOl^^o^^ ^£sa .^x'i^o i)>^^ 2>3b ;Ixa3
See f. 28 a.
16. The sixth Sunday, f. 13 «, beginning, oaIsjs^ '- j^Aa) 2>33 ;^iA, ;IfiSd.23 ^abouopob o2
17. The Friday of Lazarus, f. 14 a,
.Si^a aUi^^o .^*Sahlp ^isaoa^^a
beginning,
oiaoL^o '. iLa )L JJd2^ o7^I^ }Ifis<.2j] ^*3ib»AOp03 o2
*:* ;^iti A^;i^ ^iso^ ^ uba5 ;^23
Add. 1977 111
18. Palm Sunday, ^s^olp, f. 15 a, beginning,
19. The Passover of our Lord, ^3^? ^C^?» ^- ^^^' beginning,
ijiuM, '. ^^^xs 2i.3b ^9*3i-\ ^I^^2J3 ^.^a.^3uop03 o2
<• ^^^^ ^booaij ;aa3is^ ^3 ;Lq3o2 With double i^.
20. The Great Saturday, l^aioip l^"^?, m^rg. JiSii? J^aS, f. 16 6, beginning,
oiaoLSo '. ^2l!^ ^3L^ cr^oouS^a 6oV3 ^f&^suc^b o2 ^^fiLia ^x^'ia <« ;2«9a7 loo] ^o^? 23^;^3 2,^4^
21. The Resurrection of our Lord, .}is.to^.iJ3 232.iw9 jLh^a, f. 17 b, beginning,
22. ;isba2ti? ;f32?, marg. ;fiSialaD ;baifiu2s, f. 18 6, be- ginning.
112 Add. 1977
23. The Friday of the Confessors, f. 19 b,
beginning,
^3ol^3 . 2303 ^.po^o il6s*l ^a'p ^*ibo*o^»b o2
24. New Sunday and the Commemoration of S. Thomas, f. 20 a, beginning,
25. The Commemoration of S. George, f. 21 a, beginning, OiaOLSO '. ^fiS*2 ^32 «\a 3yM»i OOJJ3 ^bo^o^b o2
<* ^4M a^o^o 2a^ >3L3^3 ^^'^
26. The Ascension of our Lord, f. 22 a, beginning, ;V323 iSMtS '. ^3o ^is^ llisfl ;Iiu3 ^^^o^a o2
27. Pentecost, ?\'*^7*^\**^? ^^30^X^3, marg. ;^tSMM3, f. 23 a, beginning,
28. The Friday of Gold and the Friday of the Conclusion of the Week of the Apostles, f. 23 b,
*:* uQ90^a^o jQ903k^9 ^AS^oaa J3U£Na9
See no. 5.
Add. 197G 105
d. The Feast of the Revehxtion of our Lord on Mount Tabor (the Transfiguration), 6th of Ab, f. 191 6,
. 9Q3^ 90^ \^3 »\^? ^*-^4Sw? ^?^? Exod. xxiv. 1—4, 9—18 ; Ezek. xliii. 1—7 (^gVA), xliv. 1—5.
e. The Commemoration of the sons of Shemoni (the Maccabees), f. 193 a,
The prayer of Azariah, 2 — 22 [Daniel iii.] ; Acts xix, 13 — 20. Subscription, f. 193 a,
<* 2isiatdb «. 233 ^ols wJcaoMO ^bpu*30 liL* .* ^^jcaS ^L^o
The imperfect colophon, ff. 193 6 — 194 6, states that this volume was finished on the loth of the latter Teshri, A. Gr. 2013 = A.D. 1701, in the village of Alkosh. The name of the scribe, the deacon Joseph of Alkosh, is to be read in the orna- mental 'Unwan, f. 1 h,
106 Add. 1976
o^ii^P 2^3^ po^ *> 9^3 •^ fn* <* ^>m2 udbX^ l^ia
.j:e .^bi: c^Sm^ ^^a oo;S <* l^^'ia Uio^ i!6jo»^'^6so .lis^yaico iisy^ia i:s*yOa U^yJbp Ixo) Z?^ ^,p ^^^^^^ji
jltJlSu* &3 2*3L& ^ouap a!^M.^Ub jcoA^i 4is«^o^A^
: lyt^V^oti. «^^ .3^2 J*Ab 2^^3 ^<'TO [a leaf wanting]
On f. 1 a is recorded in an unsightly scrawl that this MS. was written at the expense of the priest Sabha bar Shahbii(?) for the church of — .
23^9^09 U^isscJb ;soodoo ^boa;aa2 U-^-*opo ? i iiJbp
.{sic) Uo^'p yVA>o .l*a\ ^crp .^oXia ?i^!S>.ttaoo yMitha'-i
;a30pi 2^^ aa (sic) ^aajj^ ;.t>th .;A^» 2aao6934o
^isauabO ^^a^ \\;*ift opisaio
Add. 1976, 1977 107
At the end, f. 194 6, is a note, likewise in a very inelegant hand, stating that this book belonged by purchase to the priest Hendi Dergenaya.
Add. 1977
Paper, about 12;^ in. by 8|; 58 leaves, slightly stained with water, of which the first and last are blank ; quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, the first and last having only 9. The writing is a fine, large, Nestorian serta. The volume, which is dated A. Gr. 2040 = a.d. 1728, contains—
I. The Turgdme* of 'Abhd-isho', metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia, for the Gospels of the Sundays, Feasts and Com- memorations throughout the year (see B. 0. iii. 1. 361).
Title, f. 2 6 :
^£S/3J3U3 *s^op.^a2o .l*iJao^lpo ^30^3 ;\^>So*\>\yiy»
These hymns are usually in couplets of twelve-syllable verse, alphabetically arranged and artificially constructed as to rime.
* On the meaning of the word Turgamd see Badger, The Nestorians, ii. 19 : "Besides the Euanghelion , Shlieha, and Karyane, the Nestorians have another book called tuegama, literally Interpretation, consisting of a collection of hymns, calling upon the faithful to give ear to the words of the N.T., with other pious exhortations bearing upon the same subject. Portions of this book are appointed to be read before the Epistle and Gospel.... The Turgame are chanted responsively by the officiating deacons around the altar."
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1. The Nativity, f. 2 b, beginning,
}:xS.ii lya'p .^ jS^ x^ii lalHl y^ ^u^ouo^b 62
2. The Commemoration of the virgin Mary, f. 3 b, begin- ning,
;A^^Zo '. Imparl m'y^ ^?-?? ^-^^ Vt^^*^'? ^^
*:* ;auAM
With double :s.
3. The Epiphany, f. 4 6, beginning,
4. The Commemoration of S. John the Baptist, f 5 a, be- ginning,
;^^kaa^ o^ '. lAji i^yao ^6'ya y^ ^jj.bauo;.»3 o2
*> ^iiis 000)0 ;^bJS9 j^yja
5. The Commemoration of S. Peter and S. Paul, f. 6a, beginning,
^^•^hftS '. ;Lv'>l3e ;baM'f> o^ ^^2^ ;Ia^ ^ubouo^.b03 o2
6. The Prayer of the Ninevites, f. 7 a, beginning, ^Qsld '. 2au!^ U*^ ^070^*23 ^1^*2.3 ^.bA*op0_b o2
<• 2x.« ;^I laiit ;ll^o ^J^^ ;6s^JS
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29. Niisardel, ;aft*\>\ wLx^o, '\«,p>.A>ai9 ^^aM»3
f. 28 h, beginuing,
30. The Transfigu ration, f. 24 ?>, ♦.3«? ojilS^i^? i?i>'?, beginning,
;L^a^ "^^^^P '• ^aio 2l^ 2^33 I'^lsXi ^A&b9*o7bob o2
•:• ;^39 ,3^? ^?^^ ?30^
31. The Invention of the Cross, JaA^b OjiSMOXJi Ipl^p ly*\(9, f- 25 b, beginning,
32. The Consecration or Dedication of the Church, J(3<xti3 ^iS3k2ki or J^30u«3, f. 26 b, beginning,
83. The Sundays of the Dedication, ^^poMd jaaJas^B,
f. 27 a, beginning,
93^ iSdia O^S '. }2a JSwOXi.3 23dL^9 5u2 wk&bOuO;.b03 o2
<* l^iSi; 07.33 ^^?^ ^^
Subscription, f. 28 a, *:* ;a.'a^ep9o ^3033^^30 ^^.'su ^^Sbools Jbo\3o:s ObftVt
B. C. 8
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II. Turgame for the daily Gospel, f. 28 a,
"py^ ^^ w.«x^o .^^oA^oIp oi^oA^b Jbo^soJs
marg. paA^9.
1. Beginning, f. 28 a,
2. Another, ^oAa3 ^XmI, f. 29 a, beginning, oNo^ o^ '. ^aobp J#,*030 2a^9 ^ais ^^«o^ttb 62
The alphabetical sequence ♦> JJC^ ends with the couplet ^^ but two couplets are appended without regard to order.
3. Another, to be read daily before the Epistle, ^i^o^ao^ "po^p ;*A5! 73'yJci'p, f. 29 b,
Stanzas 2 to «,
III. Other Turgame, p. SO a,
1. The Commemoration of Cyriacus, .,<■> ^y J_iiao33
jQ36A*3aa, composed by Mar 'Abhd-isho' of Gazarta, ^3f^9 (see B. 0. iii. 1. 610), f 30 a, beginning,
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[gloss ^yh] '. jasaSJ. wmOso liao lap ^i^^o/^b o2 [gloss ;o^2] *^ %fi»o2^2 Xa iLaol 23^ ;:30O3ij ;^^^
The words in the rime are frequently glossed.
2. The Commemoration of Mar Miklia ^aubOQ ^^.Sk033 jbubD, composed by the priest Joseph of Alkosh, Aoo* IXtXh pltort^i, f. 31 a, beginning,
*> ^bJ^ li^A iJaaol 23m lHoaJa Double J, ^, ub, a, and js ; four ;s.
3. The Commemoration of S. Thomas the Apostle, com- posed by the priest George of Alkosh, the uncle of the scribe,
;30^^3 0733 ;J;oA^2 UQ3u\3aA^ ^3>^*^, f- ^^ »' beginning,
^>ol^o '. ^oSk^ ^a^^icao 2a^o U?ia ^*\yfc.o^.aoa o2
<• ^QX JS^a^ ;^*bofr^ 2x.« ^» mSi! >y>
Double «^ and ub.
4. Composed by the priest Israel of Alkosh (the grand- father of the scribe), for the coming of Mar Elias the catholicus, f. 33 a,
Beginning,
}»o&A ^isS^ '. Im ^obo 2b3o Ip'p ^ji^^o^b b2
<* ^LQ>b2 iy** jCDuAaJb ^2
8—2
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5. Another for the same occasion, JiSo^Lal >.j>3Ccb3 Ixy**! f. 34 a, beginning,
Subscription, f. 35 a,
IV. An anonymous Exposition of the Mysteries of the Eucharistic Service in twelve-syllable metre. The introduction, f. 35 b, which is partly metrical and partly in prose, is as follows :
lya^L 2ai^ '. iMo^ ^Aibo U^l ^^ ^ ^o^ 23^2bo vO^^ w*070JS*29 l6s<x'a.A6s:^'3 \ ihyxpo ^fiay^^
«^ ;i>tio5 33^ ^0Ui3 uSbN^O ^M^OX M^*3^ '. JiiOoV^^oia
^ 6^^ fisbpuAK^29 -. ;^«9o^ y^or? }Jsox.3ki: ^a ^^.^f^^
<• ^2 ;^ay^ ^b^ ^loat^ 33Li< ^^'ia ^a^ '. ;^^903
^.boxbo^^^a ^''^•^ «sOl&2 ^A423 ^^po^iy ^s yiyJiioS
Add. 1977 117
.o^boo.iti3 ^s^soA ^oc^Jia }io) 2aM2.bo :a[AO ^->^
(f. 86 a) }£s\mX33 ^<>^(77f ^oo^i. Uo^a 0^.3 v<»ak.i±k ;^*^^3 ^3o^ ^baaao .^^u'^ti U^lp vpcrisx.^3^ «^i^jk
6^^ ^A^o )Lp ;^ii3 ;^3O7ab0^ XaotlS ^o^'uSipL^ 0^3
;0^2 <• ;&0] 2akb02.^3 f^\? 29dsO^ <« ^aO^.^ ^^^'3^3
2>A.Jk9 ;.3^9 ;«0>tl 02 .«^^.3070-toS <^^0.!3U^ ^x'l oAo .2xtt JS«00) ^^-33 ;^0>«er«il .Uoi 2x>30lbpL3
^."ao \^^o.» i<*oc7] ^l ■'py--o ^«o;.&.M ^*d.iCdi Xo l**.*XJao ai\i3 ;:s33 2901 ;^.3a70.^A ^f«*9 ^£2 2S^.J=l
118 Add. 1977
3^'i .2x.'a^ ^932^ •nOo;.^ ^*m»o ^3*:^jb is^? Srt,> Mt
^i p^^A ^V^o .76sySt uiS^ ^prao ?&l3.d ^992^
:9>» J^Lm^ .TkXdi ^ a^ ^^IBL^ft (.stc) ^ti^ ^X ^^3
cjjsop lisio 913^ '^^? ^? • ?^ Ax >tenh AftS^ ft>4^ .}>J(o »\d2 o;xdi^ 007 ^-3*0^ .o^ }oi ^ aa ^k^p
•> ^a^p o)3^ %xa^ >!^p
The discourse itself begins on f. 36 6 : : «.>J»p o^3po^.3 l^oj 2ibo2bX3 ^ v^^?-^ \*? ^^ ^j;aAopftN32 lispi^ ujeaii y.adop ^^.a^sp ^is^'ifib Mcnois*2o ^dii^o ., Js«2lf32 ydiuEcL oV^poi ^tS?^ uf 'Sia <• 2>*^3 ;»o^p ;^!S.b{X3 .;»odp ;^^^ ^p ^V^acn i^i,2p ;^^ 30^2 ;:a3kV,^^3o '. ^oi6^o3p \v< ^^x2p jsiiig '. 6s*li,^ti uS«pL» p^2 ^cniscw *3> X3 . »^OTiS0u>^3gp oao^ ^p .oao^A ^p ^a^ilxai >.*^^2o ^Of u^pMiio is pL^ ^«2x^^ ^j^? ^«34® '. ;Io^^o3 ^ :^ipja ^k^
Add. 1977 110
>X^^oi ^0.3 .m'yao Mf'Sis a^>io a^i o)^o2.bftS^io «^a^23 "^1?^^ ^0O>3 ^030 '. 6^9^07 M3isA>;A ^is^a^o
lis .l^'^l ^^ ^a]:soM,^Jxp ly^ox ?i^2o '. y^o^wla
ija^ J^A^o w.^ 9*32 ^ 9*32 ^^ 9^2 . ^is>^ ^9*329 )Sip . ^ Jdy-iis.'sop W^^ v^9^b»^.x \^» Ixoo^-n : iLja is*'3 a%J3 lx<7t-^ ^•^? -^^ ^9^^ yA^o "pS X.2auai; 5^io '. ;m^3LX l^'ii ^isa^^ 2a^i^ ^^2^932 . ^^.2:193^ ^^aM oiisa^a yioojb ^of .Joai'y ^61 3ti\Q>!S 2lo^ ^euab ^*^ ^»3 oiisboua.!^ ^2o (f. 37 a) '. lao^-kbo ;932.3 2aA3
ooro ;poi3 ;» oar 99?'^ ^9^^ .;A.K, \sk ^^ ;^^
. pOiA^a q;*9'323 ^99'ibo ^oo^p ;ao 00^ ^a^o *. ;oarp ^ Uo^ a^aa^o '-^'^a ^^ ^^^-3 ^V^la ^999^ ;^ak^ ;bE3yJX3 2ak^V< o;Ai;.30 c^?^A 43^?9-^ ^'>? o!^-3 ts«2&9a2 2a>I^jQ3 ^01 ^iVais o^ftso^XhiA '. aoA-a ;bajQx3.ao «.^a^3 . ;aJE.»xboa j^LB ^ib wd.so6 \^ <« ^3^-^?
.30 .;^oiop ^ ;^i^303
It includes a versification of the Nicene Creed, f. 38 6 ; a
120 Add. 1977
" separation of the human and divine natures of our Lord," f. 45 a,
*:* 07^013^33^3 ^*^o ^''^po ^c^:so I'^-a^^S l3,'y^OJO
and a versification of the Lord's Prayer, f. 53 a.
The colophon, f. 57 b, states that this manuscript was finished on the 27tli of the first Teshrin, A. Gr. 2040 = A.D. 1728, when Elias was catholic patriarch of the East. It was written by the priest 'Abhd-isho', son of Hadh-be-shabba, son of Israel, of Alkosh, in the village of Alkosh, beside the convent of Mar Hormizd, for the priest Ibrahim, son of Zaugisha, of the village of Inishk *.
^^'ilpo ;ba^3o>«3 ^o] ^is^ ^^oxo Ipj^ ^a \tb;
:aiSisaczo ^3 Mdisx: <* ^*bo2 u^'i ^ox ;o7^Xo 42^?^
•:* 0^3 <* fa *> Tiu^Suti uixds ^3^3 1*^^13 . Ua\ ;.3^A
IaO^ ^1.^3320 ^*^^i ^i>3£S ^LX.3 .;3.X33y.3^ :S0u3
.;^oL33 ^30 .;^G^23 ;32 w>aoou3 ^jsa^2 .^«bo2 ^iia
.;30m>sO U^^ '^97 ;a^3^S JC^bk^O ^3^0 ^isa .JSO
;x»xti 3^3 .;3xi'iM ?,t^t,ti ;^«Ibo 30 .^oau'sai^ ?,t>th
* See Badger, The l^eatoriam, i. 174.
Add. 1977, 1978 121
^i^Ai llxa^ .1^ ^soMia oaS^a^ti jcafil^i ^jsa^a^ ^N-a^a
Add. 1978
Paper, about 9 in. by 6| ; 136 leaves ; 14 quires, signed with
letters as far as m, of 10 leaves (except a), which has 12, and
the last, which has only 4); 19 or 20 lines in a page. The writing is a good, regular, Nestorian sertd, of the year 2096 = A.D. 1785. The volume contains
The Abu Halini, that is "the morning prayers for the festivals, composed by Mar Elias III, whose Kunya was Abu Hallm (see Assemani, B. 0. iii. 1, 291 — 294); with other prayers for the Sundays and Commemorations and the Fridays of Lent, etc., composed by Mar Shallita of Resh-'aina or Ras- 'ain " (see B. 0. iii. 1, 176) and others *. F. 3 6 :
* Elias III, Abu Halira ibu al-Hadithi, sat as catholicus from a.d. 1175 to 1100 (/>'. 0. iii. 1, 287 sqq.). The prayers composed or revised by him some- times bear his name, ^^^ uMOS, but more frequently not. Among the writers whom he laid under contribution those mentioned by name are :
(1) Shallita, bishop of Eesh-'aina or Kas-'aiu (/?. O. iii. 1, 266 sqq.), and his contemporary Paul, bishop of al-Anbar {B. O. iii. 1, 172), who flourished about A.D. 740.
(2) George of AthGr, metropolitan of ArbCl and Mosul, a.d. 915 (B. O. iii. 1, 518 sqq.).
(3) 'Abhd-isho' bar 'AkrO, catholicus from a.d. 963 to 986 (B. O. iii. 1, 199 sqq.).
(4) Elias bar Shinnfiyfi, metropolitan of Subha or Nisibis, who lived in the
122 Add. 1978
wibo lx„ya ^ oaiS ^ xcxs^b . 232^9 1"^^;^ l6soS^
icao'y^^o ^a^opao ^.ax^p ^2nIi'atM2 '^oj^^ ^t^^^
1. The Nativity, 23^3 232^3, f. 3 6. Prayer of Elias, 7i3i ^3 ^1 ^bp 3\^^23 :a!iL ^393 l^^ 2a\I ^
and prayer revised by him,
2. The first Sunday after the Nativity, f. 6 b. Prayers of Shallita,
.uA^ .;«:aOO^»^3\^ ^^ .^4^33 2VyAj: ^3^3
^2!k^ 23010& uioXJsia tAS^>v>o
and
8. a. The Commemoration of the Virgin Mary in winter, f. 9 h,
AoisW ^OOrS 9*3^ ^3^3 ^&3^033
Prayers of Elias,
;xb3X3 %ys^ ^*'^^? '^^ .^O^bO ^33 23cr!o& ^
first half of the xith cent. {B. 0. iii. 1, 266 sqq.).
(5) Solomon the metropolitan. Perhaps Solomon of al-Basra, the author of "the Bee," who was Hving in a.d. 1222 (B. O. iii. 1, .309).
(6) Abu 'l-'Izz Hadiri (.s/c), a monk of the convent of Mar Michael near Mosul {B. O. iii. 1, 610).
Add. 1978 123
and of Shallita,
b. In the month of lyar, f. 12 b, 3^*23 looip. Prayers of Elias,
230701 ^^ 230IO10 .wAfis .}*^^*2 ^-^3(3 ?^MibO^ ^ and of Shallita,
c. In the month of Ab, f. IG b, 3X3 ^O^l^. Prayers of Elias,
and of Shallita,
4. The second Sunday after the Nativity, f. Ida. Prayers of Shallita,
o7is»aiJa
and
124 Add. 1978
5. The Epiphany, ImA^^ ^?^?. ^- ^1 ci. Prayer revised by Elias,
•yA^ .230)01 ^3
and one composed by him,
.^Af3 ^mmOX Uj»^o .2aM.o^3 JlsS' 23oioa ^
6. The Commemoration of S. John the Baptist, f. 24 a. Prayers of Shalllta,
and
7. The first Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 25 a. Prayers of Elias,
Z&oore U\h h*yip S^p ^oiA^y^ and
8. The Commemoration of S. Peter and S. Paul, i 28 a. Prayers of Shallita,
v^a^ isx^o ^fSftSttV^i is^SM&b ly*po] ^oSm ^
Add. 1978 125
and
9. The second Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 29 a. Prayers of Shallita,
and
Xnl^f *n*o 230701 :so*i^^J^^ ^Jo6itJ:o l^a^ox ^
10. The third Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 31 b. Prayers of Shallita,
^amAX 07307Q13 . wA£S . J»03 ^3 ?mm.^^ ?Aab A^
and
.5^>3 ^^?^ ^^?4^^ ^3k^ <^307Q&
11. The Commemoration of S. Stephen, f 32 6. Prayers of Shallita,
5^330 ^S 5(^^3 . uA^ . 2x.3o;o ^A^OXbOO ;IA^ ^
and
12. The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 34 a. Prayers of Shallita,
;^o^^23 U*^^o .^is J^oa ^3 ^.jJ3^ ^
126 Add. 1978
and
.JskiS.^ ^'^30 ^Absa *^o7^ ^l^ ^^a^iif^o ^3o^
13. Commemoration of the Greek Doctors, f. 85 b. Prayers of Shallita,
iJi Vt o7^3^ Op /outii? •wa^ .\axs0 ;ov^2
and
14. The fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 87 (fc. Prayers of Elias,
oar .w.&:s .opipoda x.pa;o ^M±boo 2>»\ <t> l^Sia
2s3cri >>A»\^\<o 23oia& ui^A lA'^ai Uo*.^ ^3 and of Shallita, ^oA o^fio «i*07iiailjp .];bajjQ3u3e ^ ^a^bo 5^>^
15. a. The Monday of the Prayer (of the Ninevites), f. 38 a. The first session (Jpjsosb) ; prayers of Elias,
^^p 607 .u^^ .^baJSa U.*^Mo iSfsoa^p ^od^ ^
^ex» wkOioi^ox Ji^3 ;o'*ain> ^o^
and
Add. 1978 127
The second session ; prayers of Elias, .^Jso ;^^b^3 oar .u&^ .*s07^2o ^^^ ^V^
and
6. The Tuesday of do., f. 42 h. The first session ; prayers of Shallita,
.;haM:>30 ;um30 ^^o23o ;^oau:S^3 la^l U^ «^o2 and of George of Arbel,
The second session ; prayers of Elias of Nisibis,
and
.•^l i^4^o ^2sk aAj ^33 «^4?? ^aakio lai^l
c. The Wednesday of do., f 47a. The first session; prayers of Elias of Nisibis,
^^ho^a la^^ ^JOMOiSiO .ui^ .;:s^au9 ^a 1^1 ^ and
128 Add. 1978
and
16. The Commemoration of tlie Syrian Doctors, f. 49 a. Prayers of Shallita,
and
17. The sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, f 50 a. Prayers of Shallita,
and
18. The Commemoration of the Saints, ^'aJJB ^Saoss, f. 516. Prayers of Elias,
.yA^ .;«20o^bo lha]axo ik'iy*^l ^ Is^ ^
and
Add. 197S 120
19. The seventh Sunday after tl)c Epiphany, f. 54 h. Prayers of Paul of al-Anbar,
and
.oi^bu.3 ,X'^o<ft"i .^0*033 liia^xio ^
20. The Friday of the Dead, f. 55 6. Prayers of Elias, and
21. The eighth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 57 b. Prayers of Shallita,
. 2ajQ»3 ^^uia ^^AJipso lu>is'sp %,y ^AM^po ;^utiis ^
.yAiS
and
\^ i3UA3p llii^o .Ihai uio\3i ^^>M ?a\y ^
22. The first Sunday in Lent, ?MoI *Ai»»? ^hxay^p
Jiaa, f. 59 a. Prayers of Elias,
and
•^?^5..
B. C.
130 Add. 1978
23. The first Friduy in Lent, f. 60 h. Prayers of George of
Athor,
;fr^'!>^bo ^^x^^ 4^ii^^o .l^ossio ^b^^
and
24. The second Sunday in Lent, f. 62 a. Prayers of George of Arbel,
^ loxlo .^is .^os % ^2 ^O7^2o ^a^bo ^o?
and of Elias,
25. The second Friday in Lent, f. 63 a. Prayers of Elias, and
26. The third Sunday in Lent, f. 64 h. Prayers of Elias, and
27. The third Friday in Lent, f. 68 6. Prayer of 'Abhd- isho' the catholicus,
^9 la^l Jsa QUI ^aJ^oisJa ^bau pas* uxboa
.u3>fis ,l^oJ±3 q^ ^yja^ J^i Jap }^opo
Add. 1978 131
and
28. The fourth Sunday in Lent, f. 69 h. Prayers of Elias,
and
.>^^Q^^3! ^u^,^Sk^^2 ^*Iba^3 ^I^ibo o;3ou«33 2io'i ^
29. The fourth Friday in Lent, f. 73 b. Prayers of Elias of Nisibis,
^4^ pua^bo ^bouSboo . uJ.^ . a^yho jOu**^? ^auait ^
and
30. The fifth Sunday in Lent, f. 74 b. Prayers of Elias, . uj.^ . ita^^iM U^o ^^o^sbo y*is*l \& S*yl U^ ^ and of Shallita,
^» iaSp ^f\o3 ^£2 wfiiaip oar .^07^2 Z^a^^ ko2
. uio;oN*2 ^a
31. The fifth Friday in Lent, f. 78 a. Prayers of Elias,
.uA^ J3U0730 ^m3 v^0^20 v^3M ^audO^ and
9—2
132 Add. 1978
82. The sixth Sunday in Lent, f. 78 6. Prayers of Elias,
and
83. The sixth Friday in Lent, f. 85 a. Prayers of EUas of Nisibis,
and
84. Pahii Sunday, ^j^ixols 2?li-?, f- 80 a. Prayers of
Elias,
oor .wJ.^ AisooSsio jsooi^o ?«bbo^» ?a\^ 5^
and
.^'iu JjcXA^i ^ywLdo^ oi«SoX.2 yMiSk^a 2mV
35. a. Monday in the last week of Lent, f 89 h. Prayers of George of Athor,
;>«b9OfiSb0 and of Shallita,
Add. 1978 138
b. Tuesday in do., f. 01 a. Prayers of 'Abhd-isho' tlie catholicus,
and of George of Athor,
c. Wednesday in do., f. 92 a. Prayers of Shalllta,
and
^;so^ ^^SJcio .^3Xm3 ^biiiwd ^JSo^^ •.ibo ^^
d. Thursday of the Passover, ^-^D Jliiiiift-^?, f. 98 a. Prayers of Paul of al-Aiibar (ksil),
and of Shallita,
e. The Friday of the Passion, ^Xm^ ;JS30a^9, f. 94 6. Prayers of Elias,
134 Add. 1978
aud of Solomon the metropolitan,
f. The Great Saturday, f. 96 h. Prayers of Shallita, U^jsiri ZaAAO . yrfi3.JS . 3^^ ^3^3 ^33 X^ 5^
and of Elias of Nisibis,
36. The Resurrection of our Lord, f. 97 6. Praj^ers of Elias,
2301O3.O .s^^ .:aL^ ^»3 ^|^O^bO ^-bdx ^
^9933k^3 ^^*2 and
.0;a*3OX3 2301fO
37. Monday in the Week of Weeks, f. 100 h. Prayers of Elias,
and
Add. 197S 185
38. The Commemoration of the Martyrs and Confessors, f. 102 a. Prayers of Shallita,
and
39. New Sunday, f. 103 6. Prayers of Paul of al-Anbar
(M13-2),
. ?I^iboo J&03O .Isu^o i^xao v^o^Io «^^o »^2 and of Shallita,
40. The Ascension, f. 105 h. Prayers of Elias, and
;^^^2^ ^«» o^«^3 .;^os<3 ^^uoiKo ;^.*dx.3o ^
41. The Sunday after the Ascension, f. 106 h. Prayers of Elias,
.^aoa: ^3 ^*JS^2 .lixfiLla ^S^o \a ^^1 l*i!:o 5^
136 Add. 1978
;uid uf Shallita,
42. Pentecost, f. 110 a. Prayers of Elias,
and of Paul of Anbar (MLi*2),
^^2*Na2 076vO^*233 oof .^0^2 ^Mo^bo ;I^*2 ^
ila^boo 2a^ a]iso6s*l ^^Of^A^o . ^0)0^*2
followed by
^030 ^^O^ ^0^ ^bp 0^023 yAibOO >933 and
^ap ;^djiy32 <^^a^3 2^f-\A ^S?^^ .9^'^? .a]isy3^
43. The second Sunday of the Apostles, f. 118 6. Prayers of Elias,
.uA^ .lisois^l M^2 :zAL ^i0s a^o'yxi ;o^2 ^
and of Paul of Anbar (i3l*2),
.JOi£ll ^2 ^"sop oar ^i^c^io ^yo It^oh
Add. 1078 137
44. NusaidGl, JSyi3ak.fi>oa3 i?^?» 1- li7a. Prayers of EHas,
and
45. The Transfiguration, JiA\1^3 ^?^?j ^- H^^^- Prayers of Elias,
and of George of Athor,
46. The Invention of the Cross, f. 121 a. Prayers of Elias,
and
o;30]oi ^ap3 ^1^*2 ^"io^ji oor .;«ia^i ^ ^^-^^ ^
.^A*baS^Mtp ^2 ^o ?*j.soa ^
47. The first Sunday after the Invention of the Cross, f 124 «. Prayers of Shallitri,
188 Add. 1078
and
.^js& 2>*^jta 5^iiSg^ ^^9? ^^
48. The second Sunday after do., f. 12G a. Prayers of Shallita,
and
opuia ^slfS ^^^? ^ o7.^3kXoad ^a^ ^ya
49. The Sunday of the Consecration of the Church, lisy^ <3:?Ati? Js^^xia, f. 127 b. Prayers of the monk and priest Abu 'l-'Izz Hadirl, of the convent of Mar Michael,
and
50. In scarcity of Rain, 2a^^ jSOX.m33 ^JSO^^, f. 131 a. Prayers of George of Athor,
and
.a;«N^^ ^x^b ;^ «^S3 \^ 7L^3ds2o m>» josom
Add. 1978 139
51. For the Saturdays of Lent at Communion, ^jsa^^ ^boola ^o23 jiia, f. 132 ft. Prayers of Elias,
^o^^o ♦^iss.iiixfis ^^Xr^? ♦x^io *\^ A ^^^
and
.2!>*0^3 tt'^^?^ "^P ^^^ 2307M ^*3taO ^
52. With the hymns of the Vigils (Lauds) on the Dominical Festivals, ;*i'i.» i?2-V? ^^^^P i^^lO^ l>^0^^, ^'- 1^2 b.
Prayers of Shallita,
230701
and
>^«uQ>ao ^l^^ ;"^^ao .;fiss-«?^ -a^ ;^J>*tt3
and
and
The colophon, f. 183 6, states that the volume was finished on the 21st of the latter Kauon, A. Gr. 2096 = A.D. 1785, in Gessa, the village of Simeon bar Sabba'e, when Mar Simeon was catholic patriarch of the East. The scribe was Thomas, son of Moses, son of Yahbho.
.;bLX.3^^^ "poj .07^ .1^ .JL*1 ^6a^ ^a^ ^au.3 ;^««3oxo .;3^'x3 ^.iala^ ^^o ^^^o ^^2 ^^^ ^ix^
140 Add. 1978, 1979
^P Op>«A .JEO ^„?^3 ;A3^3lV^^ ^nAo^Ntl >^a^bft3C
^s^ti : a; jA^XMO ^Om^^o l*^^ <sl2 oj^duiO o^ba^o
Foil. 1 — 3 a and 134 — 136 contain hymns and prayers, written in very rude hands, and some execrable attempts at drawing.
Add. 1979
Paper, about 8|in. by 6i ; 82 leaves, some of which are stained by water and otherwise damaged ; f. 1 is blank ; 8 quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the last, which has only 7 ; 20 lines in a page. Written in a rather inelegant Nestorian serta, and dated A. Gr. 2018 = A.D. 1707. Foil. 78—82 are a somewhat later addition in a neater hand. The volume con- tains
The Services for the Vespers and Nocturns of the Ferial
Days of the Week, f. 3 h, ^Lje ;^^0u^ Jfi>?»^, usually called
Da-Kedhdm wa-dhe-hhathai\ 3JS^30 53aiib ^diA o2.
* Badger, The Nestorians, ii. 23, "The Kdhaji oo d'Wathak, literally the Before and After, so called with reference to the two divisions of the congrega- tion separated by the nave, and styled severally the Gooda alleita, or high choir, and the Gooda tahteita, or under choir. The Klnulhra, in a rubric for every Sunday, directs whether the service is d'kadlimdya or d'ahri'itja, i.e. whether it is to be said Before or After. If Before, then the hifjh choir, or the i^ortion of the congregation on the north side of the church, begin the daily prayers during the
Add. 1979 141
I. The proper Psalms at Vespers,
2.
a. Monday, f. 3 6, ;rii3 ^S^S ^Xh933 ^^'yao ^:»^i^,
Pss. xi, xii, xiii, xiv ; 2nd ma7"mUha, Pss. xv, xvi, xvii.
b. Tuesda}^ f. 5 b, Pss. xxv, xxvi, xxvii ; 2nd marmlthd, Pss. xxviii, xxix, xxx.
c. Wednesday, f, 7 b, Pss, Ixii, Ixiii, Ixiv ; 2nd marmlthd, Pss, Ixv, Ixvi, Ixvii.
d. Thursday, f, 10 a, Pss, xcvi, xcvii, xcviii ; 2nd mar- mithd, Pss. xcix, c, ci,
e. Friday, f, 116, Pss. Ixxxv, Ixxxvi ; 2nd marmltha, Pss, Ixxxvii, Ixxxviii,
f. Saturday, f, 13 a, Pss, cxliv, cxlv, cxlvi ; 2nd marmlthd, Pss. cxlvii, cxlviii, cxlix, cl.
Subscription, f. 15 «,
II. The Anthems for Vespers, ^Jlbdas -^IJkOia, f. 15«. 1, }«to'iti3 -^si? ^**^^ (compare f. 17 a).
a. Monday, ^aJda, marg. ^.A^Sudp, f. 15 a; 9JS.33 f, 16 a.
6, Tuesday, ;^^b9, f, 17 « ; a^3D, f. 17 6, c, Wednesday, ^3^9, f, 18 6 ; a4S33, f, 18 b.
ensuing week ; if After, then the under choir, or the congregation on the south side, shall open the service for the same appointed period. The rubrical order of the Khudhra directs that this change shall take place on alternate Sundays. The Kdhaji oo d'Wathar contains a few prayers, extracts from the Psalter, and the whole psalms as appointed to be used at the Matins and Vespers of week days, and the psalms and two or three collects appointed for the Matins of every Sunday."
142 Add. 1979
d. Thursday, ;*»>ti?, f. 20 «; aisaa, f. 20 6.
e. Friday, ;^p^3, f. 2U; ^^J^ f. 22 a; ;*i5Jsp?*, f. 22 6; ;*'i**2?, f. 23 6.
/ Saturday, ^M3bti3, f. 24 6 ; b^3D, f. 25 a. Subscription, f. 26 a, ?*»?ij? Jfecii ^«^P^-
2. Va**2? -^ii? ^«>?^» f- 2^ «•
«. Monday, p>tJ3, f. 26 a; 3^5?, f. 26 6. 6. Tuesday, pa±J? , f. 27 6 ; 3^3? , f. 28 a.
c. Wednesday, ?J?±JS, f. 29 a; 3fts3? , f. 29 6.
d. Tliursday, ^ajja , f. 30 a ; 3^33 , f. 30 6.
e. Friday, f. 31 6,
/. Saturday, ^ZJawbD, f. 31 6 ; 3ftv3p, f. 32 a. Subscription, f. 33 a,
III, The service for Nocturns, f. 33 a,
* Badger does not explain this terra. The words of the ms. are:
. JEO . ^oaA v^^ ^^o
Add. 1979 143
1. Monday,
oUth ^ ^aX bftt >t> ^3 ^S\i ?St as n\>3^a ^^ai)
2. Tuesday, etc., f. 34 b.
IV. Doxologies, }^Z*x ^^^olp ;.^a.a: ao6s, f. 35 «.
Monday, f. 35 a ; Tuesday, do. ; Wednesday, f. 35 b ; Thursday, f. 86 a ; Friday, f. 3G 6 ; Saturday, f. 37 b.
V. The hymns addressed to the Martyrs, 23c^3 /Lb, f. 37 6.
1. Monday, vespers, f. 37 6; morning prayer, 23^5^3, f. 39 a.
2. Tuesday, vespers, f. 41a; morning prayer, f. 42 b.
3. Wednesday, vespers, f. 44 a ; morning prayer, f. 45 b.
4. Thursday, vespers, f. 47 a ; morning prayer, f. 48 b.
5. Friday, vespers, f. 50 a; morning prayer, f. 52 a.
6. Saturday, vespers, f. 54 b ; morning prayer, f. 56 a.
7. Sunday, morning prayer, ^yjd^ JaucJ X»*3 ^'^c?' f. 57 a; ;*'x-2? ;aUL3>M? l^^P, f- CO a.
Subscription, f. 65 a,
VI. Anthems for the Weeks of the Year, l^oajip ^^oSt,
f. 65 a.
1. From the Annunciation to the Epiphany, 25k3euQ> ^ }#Mi3k^ >Lf f. 65 a.
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2. For the Week of the Epiphany, ^3^ ^oaita f. 65 a.
3. From Lent to Pentecost, f. 65 h,
(sic) f 10^03 3 :a^^ fisA ;V^oAV^34^ 3l^ ^O^ ^*ap
4. For the Week of the Apostles, f. 65 h,
.^.^3 J1^0CUE3
5. For the Week of Summer, f. 65 h,
6. From the festival of the Cross to the Consecration of the Church, f. 66 a,
7. The C(msccration of the Church, JisaiJjaabD, f. QQ a. Subscription, f. 66 6,
. ^os ;c^^o . ;^o!3it3 !a^3 ^ii'o^ ^«^S>t
VII. Versicles called kali/dtha (sing, kalta), prefixed to the Psalms on the ferial days when there is celebration of the Eucharist, f. 66 6,
;oa73 Mis^2 ^.b^AMS ^^30Ou3 ^^^^A^ ^^^ •^9>'
^^aS^ 23«nLo ^iQ9A^ %^^^ . ?aia3^a^3 isJsbail . ^aob <* (Ps. XV.) oi^ Ik^ Is^'yao <* ^BL o^ ^ JstAjjo^ . 4oa>*3!>n 23oV^ Aij^o ;^32 J^ lif\jci .^sxsiSis^
.(Ps. XXV.) wjda ;AaM Subscription, f. 67 (/, ^tH^B 'pM, .
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VIII. Hymns called l^yl JQxao^a ^9JS, apparently chanted at the beginning of each month,
1. The first, f. 67 ft, begins :
«^o^^ : l*^^ ^^ 5^Li.3o . ^ya l**y^ (sic) ^o^/xaSto
2, Composed by Rabban Abraham of Beth Selokb, in A. Gr. 1837 = a.d. 1526, f. 67 6 :
^^ti.'n^ .^^ A^a ;!{ljQMk ^OA .Jjsk^ a^ ^^
On the margin we read,
3. Composed by Mar Gabriel, nephew of the above, in A. Gr. 1910 = A.D. 1599, f. 68 a :
M^2 ^3JL3 2>f0^3 Mo;ou*i ia ^y^S^ ^ysop ^ais oi^Ab'Ao .;^3i 3oA <T=^? *\3^ .<3A •^ou^asio .^jiol!^ ^j.^-^ ^mUOlM . '^o^fbo ajJ3 am alio . >^oay5a2^
*jco .lisoa^
Part of it, on f 68 h, is alphabetical. B. C. 10
146 Add. 1979
4. Composed by Mar 'Abhd-isho' of Gazarta, f. 69 b,
Part of it is alphabetical, from I to y^. Subscription, f. 70 a,
.JEO
IX. Hymns for the Wednesdays, called ^^ax, beginning, f. 706,
>^a>aao3 oi><.o^^ .wmTu: .^slxa ^aia w.«3a ^ois
Here are invoked Eugeniiis and Shallita and their 72 dis- ciples, ff. 72 a, h ; Andreas, Eulogius, John the Arab of Herta,
Abraham of Cashcar, Babhai, and Khudhahwai, wiOOllSoa, f. 73 a.
X. The Psalms for Morning Prayer, f. 74 a,
*2a^J3 23o»^9 ^^a ^o^
Pss. c, xci, civ. 1 — 16, cxiii, xciii, cxlviii, cxlix, cl, li. 1 — 17. Subscription, f. 76 6,
.ox ^07^X0 .2pG^3
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The colophon, f. 76 6, states that this MS. was finished on the 28th of Ab, A. Gr. 2018 = A.D. 1707, by the priest Sammano, son of Daniel, son of Joseph, son of Khaushabo, from the village of Aradhen* in Sapna.
?>y,MO ,X.»in jcl2 : ^ai 3a^^ ^^rl'^ "^^^ ^?
>^abU kibo : oduxoa ^sc&b 33 : Aoo* Jau&ti 3>3 : \*2«i9 •.^3^ a{^ \tkMso .^^? 2^^2^^ • ^?^2 >^3a»o !^^^
Foil. 78 — 82 contain prayers for the evening and morning services. Subscription, f. 82 a,
o^I^o ?!aa'<lt 2^:aooI^ 23l»33o 23^e? ^^^ o^t
.^2 ^os
On flf. 2 6, 3 a, and 77 6, are written short prayers.
Add. 1980
Paper, about 17 J in. by 12 ; 445 leaves, some of Avhich are more or less stained with water ; ff. 1 and 445 are modern and blank. Forty-five quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except the first and last, which have 8 and 6 respectively ; 2 columns, 33 lines. Written in a large, clear Nestorian cha- racter, and dated A. Gr. 2034 = A.D. 1723.
* See Badger, The Nestorians, i. 174.
10—2
148 Add. 1080
The Gazza or Services for the Dominical Festivals and the Commemoration of Saints during the whole year, according to the use of the Daira 'Ellaita of Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham at Mosul. See Badger, TJie Nestorians, ii. 23 ; Bickell, Con- spectus, p. 87. The services consist of canons and other hymns, prayers, etc., many of which are given in full, whereas others are merely indicated by the first few words, as is also the case with occasional lessons, e.g. ff. 916, 124 rt. Explanatory notes for the reader are also inserted, as on if. 2 6, 4 a, 418 6. Title, f.26:
. .^oiaka^bob 232X3 .^^^Aj^? l^ "^oJsa^a . %is^'6JL
1. The Nativity of our Lord, 25th of the first Kaniin, f. 2 6. If this day should be a Sunday, the ordinary service of Sunday is to be set aside, and so also at the Epiphany and the Festival of the holy Cross.
. , '- , V ' 4' 2 * '
loa^p .yaaap ^a^a ^a^? ^?^? l^ '• ^^PP
isool \a : ^yJd *\9^'3 • ^P • ^^? i*^ ^^t^^
■ ^aasaao^ 232x ^^4^3 ocr^^? •>^,?^? ^?fo <* v^^as
pSi -h^?^;? 2?2X ^2o .pa*S Jl^isi^ ^?^? ^^^
^afao,^ ^'isSi^ ^ *^oo^is!^^ 232X ^^ai <* ^slA^s 2a2x
<« ;adL33^
Add. 1980 149
a. First maiUebha, f. 4 b, ^Iboakd ^iSObb. llyinii by the priest Shemsha Saidenaya*,
Hymn by Khamis, alphabetical, f. 29 a,
A isiolx : A^ : 0V3 : uQiu^a ;^!iab3 ;^au.«2 ^^3 . ^ois^l ^a adi ^^^^OJSM . ;xobjQ»^ 'a^A/ala ^^^^^ao^^
^*vl'^.sy ;^iso .;^>s. Hh>\Y) ;^oac l^oxa ;^i ;^2 2
^obkjxi *\?'^?^ v^o32.4^^ •^^-^? ^^^-^? ^^9^
h. Second mautebha, f. 34 6. Hymn by George Warda, f. 37 h
*:• ;*iQ>2 ^o^ ^isA y^m
* I have not specified in this description any hymns but those whose authors are named in the manuscript.
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Another by Warda, f. 39 a,
;^3m0 JsMisis29 .^ia^i ^o M^2o ;boA ^o .^1:39
<* ?>'ytSo ^L^SA wM^io Another by Warda, f. 40 b,
l^'isia, CAio <• ^cA\, a^A ^? <* 29303 l^sy^l
.;&2 «\^ ^ ^^3 ;a3 ;i2 .;ia2 oux^ ^ ooi ;sAor
\*rudio .^aJ^^I ^a5oX3 ;»m .«.*^ao^2 ^^aoiou
c. Third mautebha, f. 50 6,
d Vigils, 290pi;3 )\d, f. 516; noctiirns, f. 52 «; morn- ing prayer, f. 54 a.
2. The second Friday after the Nativity, the Commemora- tion of the virgin Mary, f. 56 a,
;^3o'i^ ^iS3^ ^^31^3 o^^? = ^oa^ v«a^ 62 ^bo
^3 «.^^2 <• ^3^03 JS^ ;jS/3m»2 mCP : ^„3^ 23^1 ^a3 <* ^A^ ^3 ^3A03 JLbOCk Op .^A^ ;iS303>^ 23m
Add. 1980 151
a. First maidebha, f. 57 a. Hymn by Warda, f. 60 6,
' • , • i» <> \ • II ' ,1 » " I . • • . •
h. Second inautebJici, f. 72 6. Hymn by Warda, f. 84 a,
Op ^A)9? 23k3 <« ^pso? ■ ^>bft\\< :ai^i^o :a^J«^
.jKo .;^o^^Ad ;i^9 ?is^^ ^^^o .;^t^
Another by Warda, f. 86 a,
vAao; •^'?^ :Am30 ^Ia>b .29309 oj^a ^^V^
Acrosticb of puikbo, the rest alphabetical. Another by Warda, f. 87 b,
.^2 U^h la] ? rift ^3 I bftla -^P^o? o^? ^^Xm2
.JEO .^2 '^^^M ^o) ^i^ftt^rio
Acrostichs of ^ox* and 'p^iio.
c. Vigils and nocturns, f. 89 b ; morning prayer, £ 90 h, 3. Epiphany, f. 92 a,
152 Add. 1980
a. First maut^bha, f. 93 b. Hymn by Warda, f. 100 a,
;2^^SjS JsilS <• ^oS< ^ Om.23 <* 29309 *> ys^
?3\y90 .^^ «^?^^ '30^0 ^Jg>033ato?>J>2B . ^^J^^O
^ou ^ . wQjoVyO*3>a ^oo) >boS< 2a>jQ3SAb&^ .uooukai^ Another by Warda, f. 101a,
. ^'sjs ;.v>a; 2p2^ ^aAo . ^92^ ^Ij^^ ^p ^^f&o^
.JCO .^bOL^ ^9090
The festivals are the Annunciation, Nativity, Epiphany, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, the Ascension, and Whitsunday.
b. Second mautebha, f. 103 a. Hymn by Hakkim of Beth Kasha, f. Ilia,
JalaJ^ ok pSi fSo^f .^ ^id9 a^iS^ 2xa^b
js*2i3oo^» ^'^ .^i.2^A^ u>-pox jx^xi .>^:loi
m t • '««(• •// I III ' ) I
<* ^^'3i0o ;^IXpo .^^li'Ia
Another by the priest Shemsha Saidenaya, f. 116 6,
laJ^lS ^3^ .;Ai3M.^^ ;x.baaf ?3e^t,tt^ 2^?y>a\<b 3»1&
•:* ;Al^ ;^tl 3Ja 230)010 . ;A^ aJa isaiuo
c. Third mautebha, f. 118 a.
d. Vigils, £ 119 6; nocturns, f. 1216; morning prayer, f. 123 a.
Add. 1980 153
4. The Friday after the Epiphany, com me in oration of S. John the Baptist, f. 125 a.
a. First mautebhcl, f. 126 a.
b. Second mautebha, f. 132 6. Hymn by Warda, f. 141 a,
c. Vigils and nocturus, f. 143 a ; morning prayer, f. 144 «.
5. Commemoration of S. Peter and S. Paul, f. 145 a. a. First mautebha, f. 146 b. Hymn by Warda, f. 149 b,
;ba^b ^ij!^ o^S^o .o^aa^I l^^ol Im <• laSoa
.^21:0 '^a^^ ^^OA *\7^?^ ^^ ^''^ '"^
Another by Warda, f. 150 6,
070^ ^Af'^o .^01^0 h^ ^i ^Vt^ •^>f'«««* ^^ o7is>^3
6. Second mautebha, f. 154 a.
c. Vigils and nocturns, f. 1C6 a ; morning prayer, f. 167 a.
6. Commemoration of the Four Evangelists, f. 167 b. a. Mautebha, f. 169 a. Hymn by Warda, f. 183 a,
.^.«oc77 ^-V^ ?^^->? piAl^ .lacpibAa: *> laboa
.JCO .^aOO^ NifuM ^LiSi 2'ijQ>^«S3^o
154 Add. 1980
b. Vigils and nocturns, f. 188 6 ; morning prayer, f. 189 b.
7. Commemoration of S. Stephen, f. 190 b.
a. MaatebJid, f. 191 6.
b. Vigils and nocturns, f. 207 a ; morning prayer, f. 208 a.
8. Commemoration of the Greek Doctors, Diodorus, Theo- dore and Nestorius, f. 208 b.
a. Mautebhd, f. 210 a. Hymn by Babhai, f. 229 a,
U^lio Jaa ^'iS ;^9yJQlO -um^X.^ ^ : ^^.3 yM^LS:
Hymn by the priest Selibha of Mansuriyah, f. 229 6,
^aJ^^ ?x^.ft^ ^,^t^^,? = ^9^ ^ ^^ = '^^ ^^^
6. Vigils and nocturns, f. 235 a ; morning prayer, f. 236 a.
9. Commemoration of the Syrian Doctors, Ephraim, Narsai, Abraham, Lolyane (Julian), John, and Michael, f. 236 6.
a. Mauteblm, f. 238 a.
b. Vigils and nocturns, f. 251 6; morning prayer, f. 252 6.
10. Commemoration of any one Saint, known as that of Mar Abha the catholicus, f. 253 a,
Add. 1980 155
a. First maiitebha, f. 255 a. Hymns for Simeon bar Sabba'e, f. 261 a. Hymn on the Catholics of the East, f. 267 a. The list commences with Addai and Marl and ends with Yabh- alaha Turkaya and Timothy, f. 268 a, col. 1. Hymn by Warda, f. 269 a,
aiV^o .^^oii'S ^s'iboo .;^3cifo^ \a3 ^ook ^1
Another by Warda, f. 269 b,
l.iA\ao .o^m3o2 ;jiMubo.^ "^V^ -2?^9? ^^3um2
Another by Warda, f. 271 a, tsA ^0^032^3 2i3 . ;30^ 5^ Oa2.3 •> 23303 ^AL
b. Second mautebhd, f. 272 b.
c. Third maiitebha, f. 291 6.
d Vigils and nocturns, f. 291 b. Hymn for Rabban Hormizd, f. 298 b,
alphabetical.
156 Add. 1980
Another, f. 299 b, Im».*3so ^ai^ ^^o ^^\ -^^P^? ^^9 «.^ea» Xa^a
A third, with reversed alphabet, f. 301 a.
A fourth, f. 301 b, ^^a^'isAo : 2aLX,3o.A33 ^^e>»23 l^yfo \.:bu 23aro <• o\o7.33 : Icn^p : }l,f pe\ : cp3 o2 : io^^ ^^^^
.;!S»J3 jsxa y,op ^ao.»o ^*>'^o o .;\h>^^23 07.1 a^o a
A fifth, f. 302 a, : 032 : SibL^SJS ^t^p }6o^ ^'^? ^^?^ "^ Ipaio ^aif «^-3i 2 <• uOobk^Liw vAS^ <* 9?2 : o\2 : 070^3
Uo2 ^^ w.(77o>»*23 3 . ^A^i S^ox* aoiA) w.bua0 .^^n>0o
. vxo . o;66iS3o 07.^0070^0 o^xsmt)^ • *~^y^p Morning prayer, f. 303 b.
11. The Friday of the Commemoration of the Dead, f. 305 a.
Add. 1980 157
a. Mautehha, f. 307 a. Hymn by Ward a, f. 310 a,
Another by Warda, f. 321 a,
^A^^io .<^lJso ^■'^^o ^2 ^13: <* ISsfiJoi ^x^bsa^o
A.3k30 .»^3JS2 ^^i3k3 ^IXO^X loO] >*sOld ^sXbo!^ "^^'^9
.^o .^^oiol ^£>ao ^fiofr%Si
h. Vigils and nocturns, f. 323 a ; morning- prayer, f. 324 h.
Here ends the first part of the Gazza. Fol. 325 b is occu- pied by a colophon, which states that this manuscript was written A. Gr. 2034 = a.d. 1723, at Alkosh, when Mar Ellas was catholic patriarch, by the priest Elias bar Yalda bar Daniel, of Alkosh, for the church of Mar Aha in the village of Shelmath, assisted by the priests Hormizd and Denkha and the chief Yalda, of that village, the cost being borne by certain persons named Hanne and Kammo with their wives Sara and Maryam.
«^32 wibpo*3 ^^a:s2 .%xo ^oA^i ;is^3aboo ^Ksuba
158 Add. 1980
.liS^ IsLfXJti ya X^2 ?,t^.t,h ^ao^k ^2 ^Ax ^^lla
.^2 .^a^ a^ %bj>\y -^^9^ ;^Su.X3 ;^^xfib3 .?iS.^
^p .1^^ Uaho .(sic) ;ak&3 ^XtXtio .^^booi }aE«xti ^bo ^9^3 ho] }3>^p u07&A*^ Asoiuo '^^fAx ;^*abb
The second part of the Gazza begins with 12. The Friday of the Confessors, f. 326 a.
a. Mautehha, f. 326 h. Hymn by Warda, f. 336 a,
u^ MOOT bi *> laoSkL u^ mOOI ^adb <* 23303 m007 Ixaod wm03 . ^jjtotoao uoo) ^au^^^ 2*3^3 J&Sai.» .ao .^aoTAipo ?Aa>faaoo .J&bbaw^
Another by Warda, on Mar Tahmazgard, f. 337 a,
h. Vigils and nooturns, f. 339 a ; morning prayer, f. 340 a.
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13. Commemoration of S. George, f. 340 6.
a. First mautebha, f. 342 a. Hymn by Warda, f. 347 a,
;323 .;ii^ay^ ;IaM biuo^b •A't-^ '^^^ h^ W^
Another by Warda, f. 348 a, .^i^y 2pc^3 ^oV,i^ .^i\)^ U^Jao <« labop ^^XmI
6. Second mautebha, f. 353 a. Hymn for Mar Pethion,
<* cna>^ k^^ a^o^ ^^^\^ o]h'ix ^p'l ^Jsou^ Hymn by Isho'-yabh, metropolitan of Arbel, f. 361 a, .\tiihlp ?\,>\ft^\\,»*ift aajl^oXf ^'a^ 2>*?^? '^^^
.;aL.3kd 2sopca 5^oV^ .^^sl^o ^e^ ^* ^^9^*^? ^^ is^a^e ^M^outio 23ilx is^^^? '^c^ '^^'A.^^A^ ^'^
♦I* iMbAdMS W.>n\
c. Vigils, f. 363 6 ; noctnrns, f. 364 a ; morning prayer, f. 364 b.
14. Commemoration of the Maccabees, Shemoni and her sons, f. 365 a.
a. Mautebha, f. 365 b.
b. Vigils and noctnrns, f 374 a ; morning prayer, f 374 b.
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15. The Ascension of onr Lord, f. 375 b. a. First mautehha, f. 875 h. h. Second mautehha, f. 379 h. Hymn by Warda, f. 383 a,
\S< ^^3 ;«OmO .h»f>3 ^^j-O ^^^ ^^? . ;to^S>^3
.JEO .;s«a4^^ i^ ^^? ^ao2 .;^ox
Another by Mar Joseph, bishop of Gazarta and Theman5n, f. 384 h,
;m030 2b.aO ^32 .;A30^is^ ;.^03»b ;frSN.33 .^WQ>02
c. Third mautehha, f. 387 6.
f/. Vigils and nocturns, f. 388 a; morning prayer, f. 389 a.
16. Commemoration of S. Thomas the Apostle, 3rd Tam- muz, f. 390 a.
a. First mautehha, f. 391 a.
h. Second mautehha, f. 393 h.
c. Vigils and nocturns, f. 395 6 ; morning praj^er, f. 397 a.
17. Commemoration of Cyriacus and Julitta ijQxxfiLaolJ ;^^0uO, f. 398 a.
a. First matdehJta, f. 399 a.
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b. Second mautebha, f. 401 b. Hymn by Mar 'Abhd- isho', metropolitan of Gazarta, f. 403 a,
.;is39^9 ;v^o^a\^ ^ox^a^ w*b^ ly^aSi^ :b\L
.lx*yh laopcd ^9V '\^ V^^V -^^9^^^? ^^
c. Vigils, f. 406 b ; nocturns, f. 407 a ; morning prayer, f. 407 b.
18. The Transfiguration of our Lord ; canons arranged by George, metropolitan of Athor, f. 408 a,
^2 ^aJa ;»oa ik^a aa^^boa .3Q.aftN aouV^ >S.^3
a. First maiitebhd, f. 409 a.
6, Second mautebha, f. 411 a. Hymn by Warda, f. 411 b,
.%ca\ lo*^ ^Pioiou^'aN 0^0X3 .^007 vf?^Vcii ?^ ^? •sS^ i^aa3Ui *sOop O7^od\^o .^007 ^,?ol ^07^ oi^oJiSo
.jKo .;oo7 iaa 23>lkaSis ;^S^ .;oo)
c. Vigils and nocturns, f. 417 a ; morning prayer, f. 417 b. B. C. 11
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19. The Festival of the holy Cross, 13th Ilol, f. 418 b. a. First mautebha, f. 419 b. Hymn by Warda, f. 426 a,
.lisoaJ^ yla Ib^aa o2 .laaoa >^a^ 5^ 0*23 bM2^
6. Second mautebha, f. 427 6. Hymn by Khamis, f. 430 b, 4^p o^sLoA ^^^au^oo .^^ '^-3 >'n»^gS ^''^^'^
c. Vigils and nocturns, f, 440 b ; morning prayer, f. 441 b. Subscription, f. 442 b,
.^JsA^ l^^p ^-^ V^ -^^ cT^aa ;i^0330 232^3
.yxo .ox 2ovS;^o
The long colophon, ff. 442 b — 444 a, adds nothing of impor- tance to that on f. 325 b.
There are many attempts at ornamentation in this volume, viz. ff. 2 6 (where the scribe has recorded his name and the date), 56 a, 92 a, 125 a, 167 b, 190 a, 208 b, 236 b, 253 a, 305 a, 340 b (figure of S. George), 375 a, 397 b, and 418 b (a cross).
Add. 1980, 1981 1G3
On f. 2 a are three prayers, viz. ItSsoyii ^*OA3,
and
On f. 444 h a later hand has added the Song of the three holy Children,
Add. 1981
Paper, about IGfin. by 10^ ; 449 leaves, of which ff. 1 — 11 and 437 — 449 are modern ; ff. 1 and 449 are blank. Forty-five
quires, signed with letters, of 10 leaves, except «a, which has
now only 8, and opO, which has 9 ; 2 columns, 30 to 32 lines.
Some leaves, especially towards the end, are much stained with water, and their margins mutilated. Written in a good, regular, Nestorian hand, and dated A. Or. 1918 = A.D. 1607. The re- cent supplies at the beginning and end are of the year 2155 = A.D. 1844.
The Hudhra or Services for the Sundays and ferial days of the whole year, including the Prayer of the Ninevites and Lent, according to the use of the Daira 'Ellaita at Mosul. See Badger, The Nestor^ians, ii. 22 ; Bickell, Conspectus, p. 87. The services are of the same character, and similar in arrangement to those in the Gazza. Title, f. 2 6 :
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Then follows an introduction by Rabban Berikh-isho', abbot of Beth Koka, known by the name of Bar Eshkaphe, giving an account of the arrangement of the Hndhra b}^ Mar Isho'-yabh of Hedhaiyabh* (probably about the middle of the viith cent.). Fol. 2 h, col. 1.
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.;au.i^ ^^0^3^ A^>3\^ oiadko 3a (f. 8(/, col. i) ^
* See Assemani, B.O. iii. 1. 131), 141 col. 2,
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^baiAo aiJa ^o .^ix^o^a ^-^^A N^'tV^ l^^^^
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?»»oV^\.y \^o .^s!^ <^33 ^oo^^OfoaA \^o .iJlSj. 2m1xo U^ol \^o .^a^ ^^\? lif^y*yx ;.^pA!xx*aip
lii>oali^6sip \^o .3o^3 ^bp oaa^oo oSjDJ^p X^^o ^oSp ^JSoal^So .;^ay.>s ;^9l^o7S ^oV^x.233 ;hA:AiMd
?*r'5*j* ?**»V'K OA3a 3A3 ^0^.3 OpakX oIoTO . yXk^^S
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1. The first Sunday of the Annunciation, ^tMautJ 23JL3awMa 2akaiajcaa , f. 4 a. The ferial days of the week, f. 7 6.
2. The second Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 8 a. The ferial days, f. 10 b.
3. The third Sunday of the Annunciation, f. 10 6. The ferial days, f. 13 a.
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4. The fourtli Sunday of the Amuuiciatiou, f. lo b. The ferial days, f. 15 6.
5. The Nativity of our Lord, 25th of the first Kanun, f. 16 6. The first Friday after the Nativity f. 23 h.
6. The first Sunday after the Nativity, f. 24 a. The ferial days, f. 25 h. The second Friday after the Nativity, the Com- memoration of the Virgin Mary,
.^^,3^ liSl ^ ^^ao'i^ V^'^^ t^^? Off^Ip .Uoyh
Hymn of Mar Emmanuel (bar Shahhare), \fi?Ai^_4n y,Sib, f. 26 h,
7. The second Sunday after the Nativity, f. 30 a. The ferial days, f. 31 h.
8. The Epiphany, ♦.340? ®^,?> ^^^^ °^ ^^^® latter Kanun, f. 32 a. The following ferial days, f. 40 6 ; viz. Monday to Wednesday, the prayer of the virgins, drawn up by Mar John al-Azrak*, bishop of Hirtha, when the caliph had demanded their virgin daughters from the Christian inhabitants, f. 40 6 :
3at]UQ>^i .bdSfAi ^ou >^b^ oVQ>^^9 .I'SsZLa ^^xitsboo Ixiboi ^» ^e'^^ ^^La Jil^^'ia o^i^is: 3^:^ .;^Lwm3
.^OL^wJs {sic) 3kAo 3u3 5^\.^^23uii< 07.bft.a^3 . Xm
* See Asbemani, D.O, iii. 1. 18'2.
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^jjjiio .ikspis ^^^ ^cS^ JO^o .iy^iio ;i\^ oar
;3af oar ^^ ^^c^ai ?^^^ .l*oxfX 5^2 v^oi^sojbia }ov^2
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Thursday, the Commemoration of John al-Azrak, f. 41 b. Friday, the Commemoration of S. John the Baptist, f. 41 b.
9. The first Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 45 a. The ferial days, 46 b. The Commemoration of S. Peter and S. Paul, on the Friday, £ 47 a.
10. The second Sunday after the Epiphany, f 50 6. The ferial days, f 52 a. The Commemoration of the four Evange- lists, on the Friday, f. 52 6.
11. The third Sunday after the Epiphany, f 55 b. The ferial days, f 56 b. The Commemoration of S. Stephen, on the Friday, f. 57 a.
12. The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 60 a. The ferial days, f. 616. The Commemoration of the Greek doctors, Diodorus, Theodore and Nestorius, on the Friday, f. 61 6. Some bigot of another sect has erased these names on ff. 63 6, 64 a, and elsewhere.
13. The fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 65 6. The ferial days, f. 67 a.
14. The Prayer of the Ninevites, f. 67 6,
.;ha\sn wjlx ^a^,^a Uovip UoJU^ip liscsa^ ?tea>^ ;»3k^o ov^oi ^ l9^? ^^ -^ is^isa ^o^ :s>ij ^
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Monday, f. 67 b ; hymn called J.iS3UC9, t. 72 6 ; ;;S3UED9 Oj6s*i,
lb.; lisaJOt^ 0!fi^M isya, f. 73 6; ^:s090aA by the catholicus
George, f. 74 a. Tuesday, f. 75 a. Wednesday, f. 80 6; a whole prayer has been erased on f. 81 6, because it contains the names of the three Greek doctors. Thursday after the Prayer of the Ninevites, f. 88 6. Subscription, f. 90 a,
7i^ .w*o)Ojb3f ^ol!^aa U^i^? lispsa^ ^-^^^^ ^°^
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The sixth Friday after the Epiphany, f 90 «. The Com- memoration of the Syrian doctors, Ephraim (Aphrem), Narsai, Abraham, Lolyane (Julian), and John, f, 90 6.
15. The sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 93 a. The ferial days, f. 94 a. The Commemoration of any one saint, on the Friday, f. 94 6,
.jAAb^jb ^32 M^boa ^bbA^boa .3ot»a^ a^d ^aAoa
16. The seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 100 a. The ferial days, f. 101 6. The Commemoration of the Forty Martyrs, on the Friday, f. 102 a,
jal^ay I'ssiiay .UoiJa ^^yao 6l ^3^? ^ Jdi^o
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17. The eighth Sunday after the Epiphany, f. 102 «,
.w*aio»aLd3 oor 21^ 07^ ^A*V<
The ferial days, f. 103 b. The Commemoration of the Dead, on the Friday, f. 103 b.
18. The first Sunday in Lent, f. 108 a,
The first Monday, f. 1116. The first Tuesday, f. 114 a. The first Wednesday, f. 11.5 b. The first Thursday, f. 118 a. The first Friday, f. 119 6. The first Saturday, f. 121 b.
19. The second Sunday in Lent, f. 123 a. The second Monday, f. 1 2.5 b.
The second Tuesday, f, 127 6.
The second Wednesday, f. 129 a. Observe the erasures onf. 132 «.
The second Thursday, f. 133 6.
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The second Friday, f. 134 a. The second Saturday, f. 136 a.
20. The third Sunday in Lent, f. 137 a. Hymn by Mar John Dailomaya, f. 138 h, alphabetical,
The third Monday, f. 141 a. The third Tuesday, f. 142 a.
The third Wednesday, f. 143 a. Observe the erasures on ff. 143 a and 6 and 144 6.
The third Thursday, f. 147 a. The third Friday, f. 148 a. The third Saturday, f. 150 a.
21. The fourth Sunday in Lent, f. 151 a. The fourth Monday, f. 154 6.
The fourth Tuesday, f. 156 a. Mid- Wednesday, f. 157 a,
Mid-Thursday, f 159 a. The fourth Friday, f. 160 6. The fourth Saturday, f. 163 6.
22. The fifth Sunday in Lent, f. 164 6. The fifth Monday, f. 168 a.
The fifth Tuesday, f 169 a. The fifth Wednesday, f 170 a. The fifth Thursday, f. 172 a. The fifth Friday, f. 173 a. The fifth Saturday, f. 175 6.
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23. The sixth Sunday in Lent, f. 177 a. The sixth Monday, f. 181 a. The sixth Tuesday, f. 182 «. The sixth Wednesday, f. 183 6. The sixth Thursday, f. 186 b.
The sixth Friday, or the Friday of Lazarus, f. 187 h. Hymn by 'Abhd-isho' the catholicus, of Gazarta Zabhdaita*,
;is39^3 Ux^oitJb J^oXf^aSi ^a^ ^^f?^? ;^Modac^
The sixth Saturday, f. 192 6. Hymns for Mar John, bishop of the scattered (Nestorians in Syria)*, f. 1926:
.23a JJJsop ;5o,tlx&^i ^L^ou ^a>.to\ ^^sl&a^ jsoa^o JaibaL ?.'>\,S ^isxla .;ji;33 ^kpa oifisA^ais ^£s^3 292V< loo] ^S^^'iio .^^SaS^s U^^ ^oioaaiuo .?j.%ty oyist lorn ^oio -^fisinaid ^^ifiol l^aiua lisOA'yajk'so^ loo] «^f2 aA3 ^,3\o .ju2 op <3e1^^^ ^o .^ijc ^*Sah2
o^23;o .^is^Ida ^o^ a^2 sa ^o^^a* '^d^? ^9? uj^o -^3^1 *^ c^aoi ;oo! ^^ )S 3A oo!0 ^iN*2 ^a ji^ oo\o .^a52o ;^iQ>a ;isii «Sf2 ;i2a .^^SuiA 07^ is&2 ^4^? ^o .^oa*S <^f3 07^ 3M2 ^^2 .JB9*!^6sl
^ See B.O. iii. 1, p. 621.
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<* ^f2o J^aSeo^a 5^2
24. Palm Sunday, ;&XSo29 ^^.^ ^P^? I "^j ^>y?
f. 194 a.
The seventh Monday in Lent, f. 200 b.
The seventh Tuesday, f. 202 a.
The seventh Wednesday, f. 203 a.
The Thursday of the Passover, J**^^? JL3ULba^, f. 205 a.
The Friday of the Crucifixion, Jiu? Jisaoi^ w.O^i^?, f. 207 a.
The Great Saturday, jNbS ;^±j: v*o?i^S, f. 215 a.
25. Easter Sunday, ^isboldp ^$Xi y^ uO^i^S, f. 220 a. Followed by ;istolti3 ^io^p ^9^? ^^^'^^ ^- ^^^ ^■
Monday in the Week of Weeks, f. 235 a,
Tuesday, f. 236 a. Wednesday, f. 236 b. Thursday, f. 237 a.
The Friday of the Confessors, ^30.^9 JJSSoau^a,
f. 238 a.
Saturday in the Week of Weeks, f. 240 b.
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26. The second Sunday of the Resurrection, or New Sunday, f. 241 h,
The ferial days, f. 243 h.
27. The third Sunday of the Resurrection, f. 243 h. The ferial days, f. 245 h.
The Commemoration of S. George, on the 24th of Nisan,
f. 245 6. Hymn for Mar Pethion, .s^^4 -'3»-5«? Jj^SSubO,
f. 246 h.
28. The fourth Sunday of the Resurrection, f. 249 a. The