The Syriac Bible of Paris, an illuminated Bible written in
Syriac, is thought to have been made in northern Mesopotamia.The manuscript
has 246 extant folios. Large sections of text and the accompanying
illustrations are missing. The folios are 312 by 230 mm. In the archaic style,
the text is written in three columns. The manuscript is thought to have come
from the Episcopal library of Siirt near Lake Van in Turkey, where it may have
been produced. It is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France ■