MANUSCRIPTS
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Photos from the illuminated MS
An Namuss Ash Shariff
or the Book of Canons, 1866, written by Constantine Daoud of Homs, 44x29 cm.
The letter of Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and his bishops, to the Bishop of Rome on the problem of simony.
A beautiful index of famous names in the manuscript
Some of the Canons from the Council of
Cartage
With His twelve disciples, Christ is pictured holding the "rudder," the symbol of Canons in the Church
The tree designed to explain the Canon that forbids the marriage of a man and woman who are related by blood to the sixth degree or less.
Illuminated Icon of the Holy Trinity, the One God.
Front page of the Manuscript