Material relating to Syrian Masorah

Collection relating to Syrian Masorah, primarily British Library Add. MS. 12138, 12178 and 7183, with related material by Professor James Wood.

MS MAS 1: Negative photographs of three different Masorah in a tied bundle. Photographs are numbered, and date to c.1950

BL Add. MS 12138 [from 899 CE]: folios 1-83, 303-312.

BL Add. MS 12178: folios 2, 3, 19, 22, 23, and 24.

BL Add. MS 7183: folios 2, 3, 14, 17, and 18.

MS MAS 2: Related material.

1. 40 cards (13 x 8cm). 42 cards (8 x 3.5cm). Some Syriac words taken from Masorah. 2. 3 leaves (typescript), 5 photographs of manuscript.

3. Professor James Wood's PhD thesis, Manschester University. Part of manuscript draft of thesis, 44 leaves.

4.1. A Syriac Masora. First draft of article by Prof. James Wood. Edited edition published in Glasgow University Oriental Society, vol. 14, 1950-1925, pp. 35-42.

4.2. A Syriac Masora. Carbon copy of the preceding manuscript.

4.3. A Syriac Masora. Second draft. Typescript (carbon).

4.4. Handwritten extracts from Wright's Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum. [See link to full copy in related materials below]

4.5. Offprint of Prof. Wood's article from Glasgow University Oriental Society, vol. 14, 1950-1925, pp. 35-42.

Along with 1988 note from James Wood regarding accession of papers into the archive. Not all items listed have remained with the collection.