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Gospel book (MS M.783).

Accession number
MS M.783
Object title
Gospel book (MS M.783).
Display Date
6th cent.
Created
Syria, 6th cent.
Binding
Modern English red morocco.
Credit line
Purchased in 1934.
Description
101 leaves (2 columns, 22 lines), bound : vellum ; 324 x 255 mm
Provenance
Discovered in a cupboard in the Jacobite Syrian Church of Harput in Armenia by Dr. J. Rendel Harris, formerly Curator of Manuscripts of the John Rylands Library (his "Syr. Mss. 10); Alexander Peckover (Lord Peckover of Wisbech; London, Sotheby's, 3-4 April 1933, lot 350; purchased from William H. Robinson, Ltd., London, through the Lewis Cass Ledyard Fund in 1934.
Notes
Ms. Gospel book; written in Syria in the 6th century.
The text is incomplete.
The text is provided with the Ammonian sections, and the lower margins contain the foot-harmony common in Syrian manuscripts of the Gospels--Cf. PML files.
Script
estrangela script
Language
Syriac
Century
Classification