NEW TESTAMENT IN SYRIAC -
Diyatheke hdatta. (Novum Testamentum Syriace denuo recognitum atque ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum emendatum).
(London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1816)
4to. In contontemporary full calf binding with middle eastern inspired blindtooled ornamentation to boards. Binding by 'Watkins Binder'. Wear to extremities, edges of boards with scratches, spine and capitals with repairs and miscoloured. Previous owner's names to pasted down front end-paper and free front end-paper. Internally nice and clean. (4), 552 pp.
First complete New Testament in Syriac printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Darlow & Moule list five different versions of this edition. This edition is without a Latin title-page and the printed slip, but with a Syriac half-title – no priority has been established. "The editor based his text upon Schaaf's edition; but he collated an ancient Syriac MS. belonging to Adam Clarke, a MS. from the Lebanon, dated 1523, now at Cambridge, and a third MS. (without vowel-points) brought by Claudius Buchanan from Travancore, as well as the Commentaries of Ephrem Syrus, and also made some use of the collations of R. Jones. The printing of this edition was completed in 1816" (Darlow & Moule). Darlow & Moule 8979.
Order-nr.: 60876
DKK 6.000,00