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The manuscript of the Arabic Bible (D 226) preserved in
the collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of
Oriental Studies was brought to Russia in 1913 and presented
to Nicholas II by Gregory IV, Patriarch of Antioch,
on the three-hundredth anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. The Patriarch gave as gifts 42 manuscripts which
entered the Personal library of His Majesty. In 1919, the
manuscripts were transferred to the Asiatic Museum, the
predecessor of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of
Oriental Studies. The Bible was translated in Damascus in
1236 by Sabbas Lavriot, whose secuiar name was Pimen of
Damascus. The translation was made from a manuscript
copied in Antioch in 1022. The 1022 copy was executed by
two copyists and adorned with a rather crude miniature in
the first volume...
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