The main reference for dating Syriac manuscripts and the standard in the field. This Album conveniently brings together two hundred facsimiles, each representing a page of a dated Syriac manuscript.
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An Album of Dated Syriac Manuscripts
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1Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Writing Materials
- II. Pens
- III. Ink
- IV. Mode of Writing
- V. Columns
- VI. Ruling
- VII. Colophon
- VIII. Dating
- IX. Miniatures
- X. Quires
- XI. Styles of Writing
- XII. Observations on the Forms of Certain Letters
- XIII. Seyâmê, the Single Point, Qûshshâyâ and Rûkkâkâ, and Linea Occultans
- XIV. Punctuation
- XV. Gershûnî
- XVI. Periods in the History of Syriac Handwriting
- Plates
- List Of Plates
- Plates I to LXXIV
- Plates LXXIV to CLXXIV
- Plates CLXXIV to CC
- Indexes