Page from a Syriac Bible (colour litho)

Choice examples of paleography, facsimiles from rare and curious manuscripts of oriental countries. Page from a Syriac Bible, manuscript written at St Thomas, East Indies, 1600. This page affords an excellent example of Syriac script at the time when the art was at its zenith. It was the custom with all Christians of that era who spoke Syriac to transcribe the Sacred Writings into that tongue in order to protect them from the followers of Mahomet. The script here is reproduced is not only very regular in character, but is more open and agreeable to the eye than the generality of Syriac manuscripts. Published in The World's Great Classics, Library Comittee; published by The Colonial Press, New York & London, 1899.