The URL and HOLLIS catalogue search string for all the Harvard Syriac MSS is as follows: "http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/6QQVF4NEGV9BCR13GJIKKNJ461LK8CAUK3BGTVT7EEQ2DSDDQI-05553?func=scan&scan_code=IOT&scan_start=MS+Syriac"
The Syriac text includes two examples of variant pointing, but I failed to record them.
Near this colophon on the MS flyleaf, there is a note written by W. A. Shedd in English to say that the exemplar MS was un-pointed.
I selected and recorded only two excerpts from colophon 2.
This village is near the city of Urmia which was then in Turkey, but is now in Iran.
This village is mentioned in a number of other manuscripts. See vol. 1, p. 182 in Sachau, E. 'Koenigliche Bibliothek zu Berlin. Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften.' 2 vols, (Berlin : A. Asher, 1899). This catalogue is now available on-line with many other useful Syriac books, courtesy of the BYU and CUA Syriac reference library. Another East Syrian manuscript, Rylands 26 which is dated AD 1895 also seems to have been copied in Sira, see Coakley, J. F. 'A catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' in 'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester' Volume 75, number 2, summer 1993, page 150.
Literally in the Syriac text, 'the American Apostles'.
That is to say, this Harvard MS was completed on Wednesday January 26, AD 1899.
This is probably the same place as one called 'Codshanis' which can be found on the maps published in 'The Patriarchs of the Church of the East from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries' Heleen H.L. MURRE-VAN DEN BERG, Leiden University, Published on-line in Hugoye volume 2 number 2, July 1999. The URL for this paper is as follows: http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol2No2/HV2N2Murre.html
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