13 Manuscripts From The Kfarbo Parish Of The Greek Orthodox Church In Ḥamāh, Syria, Are Now Available In Reading Room
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13 manuscripts from the Kfarbo parish of the Greek Orthodox Church in Ḥamāh, Syria, are now available in Reading Room
Posted: 2023-10-26Cataloging is complete for the Kfarbo parish of the Greek Orthodox Church in Ḥamāh, Syria (KFARBO). The collection includes the parish's full complement of liturgical books, primarily in Arabic with small portions in Greek, and dates from the 17th to the 19th century. The oldest dated item in the collection is a Horologion printed in Bucharest in 1702 by Antim Ivireanul, a famous early printer of Georgian origin. View now
Image caption: Page with a decorative border from a Greek Orthodox Horologion, printed by Antim Ivireanul in 1702 (KFARBO 00008)
