Syriac Literature: Narsai
Beth Mardutho Library

A rectangular decorative border with a complex pattern of geometric and floral motifs in red, gold, and green, framing the central text of a bookplate (Ex Libris).

Beth Mardutho

Of the Malphono Teacher George Anton Kiraz

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.