Paintings of the Life of Jesus

The image shows a weathered, brownish paper or parchment page, likely serving as a cover or flyleaf. It features heavy dark staining on the left side and various smaller spots throughout. In the upper right, there is handwritten text in dark ink. In the center-left, there is a circular red library stamp.

Syriac A dialect of Middle Aramaic that served as a major literary and liturgical language for Middle Eastern Christians., National Library Referring here to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris., Manuscripts, shelfmark The unique identification number assigned to a book to indicate its location on a library shelf.