A letter by Mār Jacob, bishop of Edessa, on Syriac orthography
Subtitle: also a tract by the same author, and a discourse by Gregory Bar Hebræus on Syriac accents. Now edited, in the original Syriac, from mss. in the British museum, with an English translation and notes
By: by George Phillips. To which are added appendices.
Contributors: Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286.; Phillips, George, 1804-1872, ed. and tr.
Publisher: Williams and Norgate
Published: 1869
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Syriac language -- Orthography and spelling.; Syriac language -- Accents and accentuation.
Notes: Texts paged in Syriac characters.
The selection from Bar Hebræus is the fourth discourse, sixth chapter, On the great points, five sections, from his larger grammar, "The book of rays." The appendix includes text and translation of a fragment of an anonymous letter on accents, probably of the sixth century.