Syriac

Syriac

volume of 279 pages, 32 3/4 x 22 1/2 cms., 23 lines. ES. It is a missal, copied at Mosul in 1859 A.D. and completed, according to the colophon, on Ab (August) 22nd, in the night of the 6th Sunday of Qayta (Summer), the ‘onìta of which begins with the words ‘ûàmrā damlê (“A dwelling place full of [delights]...”). The name of the copyist is found on the last page but one : Iśa, son of Eśa‘na, son of the deacon Kuriakos, son of the priest Talya, from the village of Eqrôr in the region of the Sendayê. After the three anaphorae one comes across a full page of text saying that the deacon Joseph, son of the priest Antûn, son of Hormez, son of the deacon Eśay, son of the deacon Hormez, son of Joseph, son of Aswad, son of Joseph, (8 generations) who were responsible for the copying of the anaphorae. The words of the Institution-Consecration are lacking in the Ist anaphora, but they are given at the end of it, not on a leaf later inserted in the manuscript, but on a leaf which belongs to it.

The text is the Syriac translation of the Roman one, preceded by the words : “Praise be to Thee, God Father, who sent Thy only begotten Son for our redemption. And he, in the night before his passion, took bread in his holy hands...” etc.
After the anaphora, the colophon and a blank page, there are 189 pages with prayers for the morning office (şapra), composed by Patriarch Elia III (1176-1180), called also Abû Halîm

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