The Book of Judith – 3

A description of the manuscript is found in my The Christians of St. Thomas in South Indian and their Sgriac Manuscripts, Bangalore (India) 1983, PP. 87-88. The library number is 278 (in oriental libraries, like the one at Trivandrum, manuscripts and ptinted books are not rarely mixed up and numbered continuously). The book contains 159 ff., 34×221/2 cm.; the text of Judith is found ff. 123r – 139r. The text is intact and did not suffer from the worms; a colophon at the end, f. 139r, indicates that it was copied in 1734 A.D. by a copyist who did not mention his name. He belonged to the Catholic Syrian community.