This volume contains an early example of Christian adaptations of Saadiah Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Pentateuch (Genesis, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy) and Syriac-based Arabic translation of Exodus, Numbers, and replaced folios (Syr.2). (Notes in Latin and English on fol. 1a) Genesis, fol...
A beautiful codex with colorful and golden illustrations of the four evangelists and floral patterns. It belongs to the so-called Alexandrian or Egyptian Vulgate recension, which became the most wide spread version of the Gospels in the Coptic and other communities from the thirteenth century on...