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A letter by Mar Jacob, bishop of Edessa, on Syriac orthography

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Jacob, of Edessa, approximately 640-708
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Title A letter by Mar Jacob, bishop of Edessa, on Syriac orthography : also a tract by the same author, and a discourse by Gregory Bar Hebræus on Syriac accents. Now edited, in the original Syriac, from mss. in the British museum, with an English translation and notes / by George Phillips. To which are added appendices.
Contributors Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286.
Phillips, George, 1804-1872
Publisher London, Edinburgh : Williams and Norgate
Creation Date 1869
Notes Texts paged in Syriac characters.
The selection from Bar Hebræus is the fourth discourse, sixth chapter, On the great points, five sections, from his larger grammar, "The book of rays." The appendix includes text and translation of a fragment of an anonymous letter on accents, probably of the sixth century.
Extent viii, 96 p.
47 pages
23 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990020385770205171

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