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Mar Behnam (monastery): HMML Repository

Mar Behnam (Monastery)

Manuscripts of the Syriac Catholic Mar Behnam Monastery near Mosul, famous for their survival in hiding during the invasion of ISIS in 2014. Includes liturgical books, Bibles and apocryphal texts, homilies, hagiographies, and treatises on various topics in both Arabic (often Garshuni) and Syriac.


Collection
Eastern Christian
Country
Iraq
City
Mosul
Repository
Mar Behnam (Monastery)
Project Codes
MBM
Project Numbers
MBM 00001-00534
Type
Digital
Active Catalog Records
535
Digital Surrogates
536
Date Preserved
2011-2013
HMML Reading Room (first record)
https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/130758
HMML Authority File
https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/498692804385
Languages
Armenian, Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Latin, Italian, Arabic Garshuni, Georgian, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, French, English, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Neo-Aramaic, Romanian, Turkish Garshuni, Armenian Garshuni
Bibliography
بهنام سوني، فهرس مخطوطات دير مار بهنام الشهيد (2005).
Preservation Status
Complete
Cataloging Status
Complete

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