ArchiveSearch

Scope and Contents ff.10; 217 x 159mm; text size 170 x 120mm; 21 lines; a notebook bound in blue paper covers. The text in Syriac is in black ink; directions in Carshuni in red ink.The colophon on f.9 recto reads in part: "Here endeth the Rite of Holy Communion by the hand of the writer Deacon Matti the Son of the late Bulus, of the Old Jacobites, in the city of Mosul. Eleventh day of October 1902 the year of the Messiah."A note signed J. T. Parfit records that the original of this MS is...

Scope and Contents ff.90; c. 304 x 200mm; text size 245 x 145mm; 26 lines in 2 columns each of 245 x 70mm; bound in wooden boards covered with black tooled leather, spine label reads "21 - Syro-Nestorian Gospels".Collation: 1(10) (1, 3 verso blank), 2-8(10), 9(10) (ff.89 verso-90 blank). Ruled by hard point on paper water marked with three crescent moons decreasing in size, a flower and an M (see also BFBS MSS 27, 32, 446 and 450), with signatures on the first recto and last verso folio of each...

Scope and Contents ff.88; 323 x 222mm; text size 250 x 165mm; 25 lines in 2 columns each of 250 x 75mm; bound in wooden boards with a cloth spine.Collation: 1(12) (ff.1-2 recto blank), 2-5(10), 6(6), 7-8(10), 9(10) (f.88 blank). The paper is watermarked with three crescent moons decreasing in size (see also BFBS MSS 27, 32, 446 and 450). The handwriting is the first East Syrian script, apparently in the same hand as MS 446. Red ink is used for headline titles, etc. f.2 verso has a ‘gate’ with arabesque...

Scope and Contents

ff.1059 (total) in 3 volumes, II + 335 + II; II + 324 + II; II + 388 + II; 239 x 190mm; text size c. 215 x 155mm, 20 lines, bound volumes.
This MS consists of the Syriac text, a transliteration of the Syriac and an English translation.

Scope and Contents

ff.268; 203 x 143mm; text size 145 x 103mm; 19 lines bound in light brown paper.
Collation: 1(10) (1 pasted to cover), 2(8), 3-6(10), 7(12), 8-16(10), 17(8), 18(12), 19-24(10), 25(8), 26(10) (ff.256 verso-258 blank, last leaf pasted to cover). Ruled by hard point, on paper watermarked either with a shield or with a device possibly representing a crown. The leaves are foliated by the names of numbers, not figures.
The name M. Richards has been pencilled on the cover.

Scope and Contents ff.379; 325 x 220mm; bound in wooden boards covered with dark brown leather.The ‘Book of Studies’, a MS of the Syriac poet Elia of Anbar (fl. 922 A.D.) including the Apocryphal Psalms, and therefore included in Peshitta Institute of Leiden, ‘The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta Version’, part IV, fascicle 6. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1972, as: "18E1 = London, BFBS Library, MS without number...This MS, dated 1733, has a number of peculiar readings. In one place it...

Scope and Contents ff.200; 320 x 200mm; text size 245 x 135mm; 27 lines, bound in wooden boards covered with black leather. Spine label:"21.Syro-Nestorian Pentateuch".Collation: 1(10) (loose), 2-7(10), 8(10) (partly loose with one leaf missing - which may be the loose leaf between ff.24 & 25), 9-20(10). Ruled by hard point on paper watermarked either with a circle, approximately 65mm in diameter, enclosing various devices, or another device. The quires are signed on the first recto and...

Scope and Contents ff.103; 365 x 238mm; text size 280 x 172mm; 2 columns each of 44 lines; bound in tooled brown leather.Collation: 1(8) (f.1 joined to endpaper), 2-5(8), 6(10), 7(8), 8(8) (wants 8), 9(8) (wants 1-3), 10(8) (wants 8), 11(10) (f.88 joined to endpaper), 12(6) (wants 4-6), 13(10), 14(2) (f.103 blank).Ruled by hard point on paper watermarked with three crescent moons decreasing in size (see also BFBS MSS 27, 32, 446 and 447). Red ink used for punctuation, initials and headline titles. ...

Scope and Contents ff.289; 280 x 185mm; text size ff.1-29 203 x 125mm, ff.30-289 in two columns, 185 x 55mm each; 29 lines in fine Estrangelo calligraphy on parchment bound in leather covered wooden boards which do not fit the book-block and which do not show any traces of damp which has affected the parchment.Collation: 1(10) (1 missing), 2-29(10). Ruled by hard point with signatures at the beginning and end of each section. Titles and colophons to individual books are in red and on many pages there are...

Scope and Contents ff.256; 262 x 178mm; text size 195 x 115mm; 30 lines in Estrangelo script, on parchment bound in cloth covered wooden boards.Collation: 1-25(10), 26(6). Signatures on first and last leaves of each quire. The vocalization is in East Syriac style. Red ink is used occasionally for rubrics or notes, and a certain amount of adornment. The beginning of each book has a short introduction in red ink and a ‘tab’ on the ‘thumb-index’ principle.The MS was written by "the feeble man,...

Scope and Contents ff.259; 253 x 178mm; text size 185 x 115mm; 28 lines in an Estrangelo hand, on parchment, bound in red leather tooled with designs in black and gold.Collation: 1st gathering missing, 2(6) (6 originally blank), 3-7(10), 8(7), 9(10), 10(9), 11-15(10), 16(8), 17-21(10), 22(9), 23(9), 24(10), 25(9), 26-27(10), 28(2). Signatures in Syriac letters at beginning and end of each quire, and red ink is used to mark the beginnings of chapters, and chapter headings. The Estrangelo hand is vocalized...