Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The early history of Tur Abdin.

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Cambridge University Press 1990. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xxiv 266pp.). With b/w plates of which some full-page text-illusts. maps and plans. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 39). With a 500-page microfiche supplement containing the first editions of the Qartmin Trilogy (a monastic text referred to frequently in the book) and the Book of Life a document about a Christian village and its will to survive. Fine.