Arabic Book of the Hours
From the event:
Endangered Texts: Preserving Ancient Books
New Mexico History Museum
A 17th-century Christian Horologion (Book of the Hours) in Arabic. The manuscript is from Our Lady of Balamand Monastery, built by French Cistercian monks in the Crusader period and subsequently inhabited by Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox monks. MS. Balamand 26, fols. 121v-122r. Photo courtesy of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.
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