Harvard MS Syr 87

Catalog Entry

• Šḥimto: Following the orders of service for the days of the week (the Šḥimto, approximately ff. 1-45, incomplete at the beginning), the ms. contains a collection of various genres of hymns and prayers: mawrbe, qale, genize, takšpata, qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata, madraše of Ephrem, baʻwata [in the meter of] Jacob, Ephrem, Balai, tabrata, ʻaṭre, šuḥlape, prayers for various occasions; and ends with the order for šumlaya madnḥaya (incomplete at the end). All are for the ferial services except the qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata which are for various festivals and saints' days.