The Book of Directions

A rectangular bookplate with a multi-colored geometric decorative border. The text is centered within the border, featuring Syriac script at the top and middle, and English text in the middle and bottom.

Beth Mardutho House of Learning

Of the scholar George Anton Kiraz

Beth Mardutho Library

Anyone who asks for this volume, to read, collate, or copy from it, and who appropriates it to himself or herself, or cuts anything out of it, should realize that (s)he will have to give answer before God’s awesome tribunal as if (s)he had robbed a sanctuary. Let such a person be held anathema and receive no forgiveness until the book is returned. So be it, Amen! And anyone who removes these anathemas, digitally or otherwise, shall himself receive them in double.