10 Manuscripts From The Private Library Of Bét Qašā In Qārū, Iraq, Now Available In Reading Room
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10 manuscripts from the Private Library of Bét Qašā in Qārū, Iraq, now available in Reading Room
Posted: 2023-12-06Cataloging is now complete for the Private Library of Bét Qušā, located in Qārū, Iraq. This collection contains ten manuscripts in Syriac script, and the manuscripts are primarily liturgical in nature, though one of them contains a collection of saints’ lives. The manuscripts range in date from the 16th-19th centuries. One particularly notable manuscript is PLQ BQ 00010, which is a complete Ḥudrā manuscript, dated 1892 CE. View now
Image caption: Decorative border and calligraphy from a Syriac Ḥúdrā, a liturgical book (PLQ BQ 00010)