British Library, Add MS 12150
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British Library, Add MS 12150
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British Library, Add MS 12150 is the second oldest extant Syriac manuscript and the oldest codex bearing a date in any language. According to the original partially damaged colophon, the manuscript was copied in Edessa in the year 723 of the Seleucid era, that is, AD 411. In AD 1086, the colophon was copied onto a different folio. This copy preserves the name of scribe, Jacob. The manuscript was brought at some point to Baghdad and from there in 931 to the Deir al-Suryani in Egypt among some 250
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