COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader SyriacMS_6
Reference Number:
Syriac MS 6
Parent Work Title:
Octoechos
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Melkite Paraklitike or Great Oktoechos
Date Created:
1449
Description:
Melkite Paraklitike or Great Oktoechos, fifteenth-century Syriac manuscript, containing hymns for Sunday and weekday services, arranged in eight tones. Many of the headings and subscriptions to the sections of the book are in
Arabic either alone or mixed with Syriac.Twenty-four to twenty-eighth lines to a page, occasionally using red and green ink.
Arabic either alone or mixed with Syriac.Twenty-four to twenty-eighth lines to a page, occasionally using red and green ink.
Language Code:
syr
Language:
Syriac
Language Code:
ara
Language:
Arabic
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Hymns, Syriac
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
270 mm
Item Width:
210 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
J.F. Coakley, 'A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 75, no. 2 (1993), pp. 105-207
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2019-04-08
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2019-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval