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Book/Printed Material The Unique Explanation of the Secrets.

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Title

  • The Unique Explanation of the Secrets.

Summary

  • This manuscript contains a work in Garshuni (Arabic language written in Syriac script) on the sacraments. At the beginning of the manuscript, the work is called The Unique Explanation of the Secrets (i.e., the sacraments), but in the colophon the book is called The Treasure House of the Secrets. The manuscript was copied by Stephen (Isṭifānūs), a monk of the St. Antony Monastery. The colophon mentions the date of completing the manuscript as the 11th day of Tammuz (July), 1740. The work has numerous marginal annotations, also in Garshuni.

Names

  • Stephan from Bahdidat Scribe.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1740-07-11.

Headings

  • -  Lebanon--Al-Biqāʻ--Baʻlabakk
  • -  1740

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 156 pages, 21 x 15 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Holy Spirit University of Kaslik.
  • -  Content in Arabic and Syriac.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Lebanese Maronite Order

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667190

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Stephan From Bahdidat Scribe. The Unique Explanation of the Secrets. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -07-11, 1740] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667190/.

APA citation style:

Stephan From Bahdidat Scribe. (1740) The Unique Explanation of the Secrets. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -07-11] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667190/.

MLA citation style:

Stephan From Bahdidat Scribe. The Unique Explanation of the Secrets. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -07-11, 1740] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667190/>.