Hymns and prayers for the daily offices : manuscript, 1883 [i.e. 1571 or 1572]

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Syriac Orthodox Church. Hymns and prayers for the daily offices : manuscript, 1883 [i.e. 1571 or 1572]

Hymns and prayers for the daily offices : manuscript, 1883 [i.e. 1571 or 1572]

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Following the orders of service for the days of the week (the Šḥimto, approximately ff. 1-45, incomplete at the beginning), the ms. contains a collection of various genres of hymns and prayers: mawrbe, qale, genize, takšpata, qatismaʼṭaʼs and maʻnyata, madraše of Ephrem, baʻwata [in the meter of] Jacob, Ephrem, Balai, tabrata, ʻaṭre, šuḥlape, prayers for various occasions; and ends with the order for šumlaya madnḥaya (incomplete at the end). All are for the ferial services except the qatismaʼṭaʼs and maʻnyata which are for various festivals and saints' days.

231 leaves, bound ; 23 cm.

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