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Title

  • Liturgy.

Summary

  • This late-16th-century manuscript is what is called in Arabic a Qundāq (from the Greek word kontakion), that is, a liturgical book. The text is partly in Arabic, partly in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic once spoken in many of the lands of the Fertile Crescent. The manuscript is extensively rubricated, but the black ink has bled in many places. Of special interest here is that the Syriac script in this codex is of the variety known as Melkite, which is rather more angular than the more commonly seen Serto script. The manuscript was copied at and still belongs to the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand, an Antiochan Orthodox monastery located on a plateau about eight kilometers south of Tripoli, in present-day Lebanon. Founded in 1157 as an abbey for French Cistercians, Our Lady of Balamand derives its name from the French bel mont (beautiful mountain). In 1604, the monastery came under the authority of local Orthodox monks.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1599.

Headings

  • -  Lebanon--Al-Biqāʻ--Baʻlabakk
  • -  1500 to 1599
  • -  Liturgies
  • -  Orthodox Eastern Church
  • -  Prayers

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource at: Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchal Monastery.
  • -  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

  • Monastery Library

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667215

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Liturgy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1599] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667215/.

APA citation style:

(1599) Liturgy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667215/.

MLA citation style:

Liturgy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1599] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667215/>.