Mar Behnam (monastery): HMML Repository
Mar Behnam (Monastery)
Manuscripts of the Syriac Catholic Mar Behnam Monastery near Mosul, famous for their survival in hiding during the invasion of ISIS in 2014. Includes liturgical books, Bibles and apocryphal texts, homilies, hagiographies, and treatises on various topics in both Arabic (often Garshuni) and Syriac.
- Collection
- Eastern Christian
- Country
- Iraq
- City
- Mosul
- Repository
- Mar Behnam (Monastery)
- Project Codes
- MBM
- Project Numbers
- MBM 00001-00534
- Type
- Digital
- Active Catalog Records
- 535
- Digital Surrogates
- 536
- Date Preserved
- 2011-2013
- HMML Reading Room (sample record)
- https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/130758
- HMML Authority File
- https://haf.vhmml.org/organization/498692804385
- Languages
- Armenian, Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Latin, Italian, Arabic Garshuni, Georgian, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, French, English, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Neo-Aramaic, Romanian, Turkish Garshuni, Armenian Garshuni
- Bibliography
- بهنام سوني، فهرس مخطوطات دير مار بهنام الشهيد (2005).
- Preservation Status
- Complete
- Cataloging Status
- Complete