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Book/Printed Material Commentary on the Divine Eucharist.

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Title

  • Commentary on the Divine Eucharist.

Summary

  • This 18th-century Arabic manuscript contains a commentary on the Orthodox liturgy. The work was compiled from earlier ecclesiastical authors by Yūḥannā Nāt̲ānā'īl, presumably an Arab monk about whom little is known. A chart at the beginning of the codex presents basic information on the first seven ecumenical councils, which took place between the years 325 and 787 in the cities of Nicaea (325), Constantinople (381), Ephesus (431), Chalcedon (451), Constantinople (553), Constantinople (680), and Nicaea (787). The text, which is in Arabic, is rubricated throughout. There are many water marks but with little loss to legibility. The manuscript is from the library of 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.

Names

  • Yūḥannā Nāt̲ānā'īl Compiler.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1700 to 1799]

Headings

  • -  Lebanon--Al-Biqāʻ--Baʻlabakk
  • -  Turkey
  • -  325 to 1799
  • -  Councils and synods, Ecumenical
  • -  Liturgies
  • -  Orthodox Eastern Church

Notes

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

  • 2021667217

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Yūḥannā Nāt̲Ānā'Īl Compiler. Commentary on the Divine Eucharist. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1799, 1700] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667217/.

APA citation style:

Yūḥannā Nāt̲Ānā'Īl Compiler. (1700) Commentary on the Divine Eucharist. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1799] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667217/.

MLA citation style:

Yūḥannā Nāt̲Ānā'Īl Compiler. Commentary on the Divine Eucharist. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1799, 1700] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667217/>.