Evangeliary or Lectionary - Chester Beatty Online Collections

Object Information

Manuscript

Object no:: Syc 705

Title:: Evangeliary or Lectionary

Scribe and production place:: Unknown
Syria

Production date:: 12th or 13th century

Dimensions:: 427 mm x 319 mm x 95 mm (height x width x depth)

Material:: Parchment (material) Ink (material) Pigment (material) Paper Leather (material)

Language:: Syriac (language) Arabic (language)

Script type:: Estrangelo script

Collection:: Syriac collection

Document type:: Manuscript

Object name:: Codex

Description:: Parchment codex containing an evangeliary or the Nestorian lectionary written in the 12th or 13th century in Syria. It is written in the Estrangela script of Syriac with the title in Arabic on the back. It is bound with blind-tooled and stamped leather covers. Nearly every chapter is decorated with a coloured 'ribbon-over-a-rod' decoration in red, green and yellow.

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