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20 Manuscripts From Kullīyat Bābil Al Ḥabrīyah Lil Falsafah Wa Al Lāhūt In ʻaynkāwah, Iraq, Are Now Available In Reading Room

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First page from the Syriac grammatical text Ktābā d-ṣemḥe (Book of splendors) by Bar Hebraeus, from a manuscript dated to 1702 CE (PBCL Y HABBI 00010)

20 manuscripts from Kullīyat Bābil al-Ḥabrīyah lil-Falsafah wa-al-Lāhūt in ʻAynkāwah, Iraq, are now available in Reading Room

Posted: 2023-11-14

Cataloging is now complete for 20 items from Kullīyat Bābil al-Ḥabrīyah lil-Falsafah wa-al-Lāhūt (Babel College for Theology), a Chaldean Catholic seminary in ʻAynkāwah, Iraq. This collection was digitized in collaboration with the Centre Numérique des Manuscrits Orientaux (CNMO) and includes the collection of Yūsuf Ḥabbī (1938-2000), one of the founders of the seminary. Texts in the collection are primarily Arabic, Syriac, and Neo-Aramaic, with a small amount of French and Turkish. The oldest item in the collection is a Syriac grammatical manuscript dated to 1702 CE (PBCL Y HABBI 00010), while one of the newest is an unusually late manuscript copy of a devotional work in Arabic Garshuni, copied in 1991 CE (PBCL 00005 and PBCL 00006). View now

Image caption: First page from the Syriac grammatical text Ktābā d-ṣemḥe (Book of splendors) by Bar Hebraeus, from a manuscript dated to 1702 CE (PBCL Y HABBI 00010)

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