| Summary | It is finished, by the help of our Lord, the writing of the book of the Grammar with [...] this book was finished on the 20th in the blessed month of Ab in the Sabbath day [...] in the year 1866 [1555] by the system of the Greeks [...] it was written in the very blessed city of Gazarta Zabdayta [...] in the days of the father of fathers and chief of superiors and of pastors, anointer of priests [...] Mar Shemʿon, Catholicos Patriarch of the East, month of regions and of all the inhabited earth of the orthodox, may be affirmed in all victory for the edification of the holy church, by the help of He who chose him, and in the days of the vigilant and careful shepherd, gentle and sweet, and patient in soul, and gentle, and a man of peace, blessed in body and in soul, Mar Yawsep, bishop of Mansuriya and of Gazarta and its district [...]. He wrote or corrupted [...] these charters [...] the weak ʿAṭaya, in name a priest, son of the priest Faraj the pilgrim, son of the deacon Marqos, of Alqosh. And today they are dwelling and live in the city of Gazarta Zabdayta, mentioned above [...] This book was copied from a codex and from the autograph of our father the very blessed Mar ʿAbdishoʿ, bishop of Gazarta of Beth Zabday. May everyone who reads it pray for its scribe and for his fathers of the body and the spirit, Amen. [conventional comment about readers finding mistakes in it]. |
