Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Add MS 18997
- Record Id:
- 032-002095623
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002095623
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x00004c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171506649.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 18997
- Title:
-
The Proverbs and Book of Job
- Scope & Content:
-
This volume contains the Proverbs and Job in bilingual Coptic and Arabic texts. For extracts, see Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, pp. 354-355.
Contents:
Proverbs, fols. 2r–49r
Introductory note on Job (taqdima), fol. 49v
Job, fols. 50r–165r
Scribal notes: 165
There are two colophons on ff 49r and 165r-v. Dates are given in Arabic numbers and Coptic Epact numbers. The copy was issued on behalf of the deacon and noble (arkhon) Bū ṣaf ibn al-Shaykh al-ajl al-dīn al-Ortodoksī al-muʿallim Elias al-Barmāwī (colophons transcribed in Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus [Supp.], 794, p. 354). The date provided is 1512 AM (1796 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002095623", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 18997: The Proverbs and Book of Job" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002095623
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002095623
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 165 ff
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100171506649.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Arabic
Coptic - Scripts:
- Arabic
Coptic - Start Date:
- 1796
- End Date:
- 1796
- Date Range:
- 1796
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Western paper.
Dimensions: 170 mm x 115 mm leaf [120 mm x 80 mm written; the Arabic takes up less than 1/3 of the page].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; also Coptic letters.
Lines per page: 21 lines/page.
Script: Naskh.
Scribe: Ibrahīm Abū Ṭabl ibn Samʿān al-Khawānikī.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red and sometimes in silver.
Decoration: cross on fol. 1v, illuminated rubrics (cf. bāb).
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good.
Catch words: In the Coptic text, in lower margin, right corner of the verso.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Mrs. D. M. Arnold on 14 August 1852.
- Finding Aids:
- Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens [Supplementum] (London: The British Museum, 1871), Item 794, pp. 354–355.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)