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Or 1314(1)
- Record Id:
- 032-003461541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003461541
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100085829058.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172735030.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1314(1)
- Title:
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10 Prophesies
- Scope & Content:
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The current renditions of the Prophets into Coptic and Arabic are not only of interest for the textual history of the Septuagint –the Vorlage of the Arabic texts–, but also for the approach to the Bible among Copts in the pre-modern era. The scribe carefully compared the Coptic and Arabic texts in front of him and sporadically made small adjustments in them, but he also chose incorporated the so-called Fourteenth Vision of Daniel into the biblical corpus. The Fourteenth Vision of Daniel expands the kingdom themes in Daniel and creates a new vision in which the rulers of the Islamic empires are incorporated. Its inclusion in the biblical corpus gives witness to the apocalyptic atmosphere that still pervaded Christian communities in the East and shows that the biblical themes served as literary topoi, which were used as tools to understand both the logic of the biblical narratives as well as the Christian communities’ own place in history.
A bilingual Coptic-Arabic compilation of texts in two columns containing the following Prophets' visions:
Hosea: fols. 3r-29r
Amos: fols. 29v-50v
Mica: fols. 51r-66v
Joel: fols. 67r-77r
Obadiah: fols. 77v-80v
Jonah: fols. 81r-87v
Nahum: fols. 88r-94r
Habakuk: fols. 94v-102r
Zephaniah: fols. 102v-111r
Haggai: fols. 111v-117v
(1) Romanised author's name (Minor Prophets and Daniel)
Colophons: f. 162r and 252r, for transcriptions, see Rieu, Supplement, pp. 4-5.
The date range is 15 Mashrī 1089; 9 Hatōr 1090; 10 Ṭūbī 1090 [Anno Martyrum], i.e. 1373-74 CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003461541
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003461541
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. 117
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100172735030.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Coptic - Scripts:
- Arabic
Coptic - Start Date:
- 1373
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 1373-74
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (first nine folios are written on Western paper; the rest on Oriental paper).
Dimensions: ca 310 mm x 240 mm leaf [ca 250-260 mm x 170-190 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Lines per page; ca. 21-22 lines/page
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red
Decoration: Ribbon-floral patterns often featured as ‘gates’ (cf. Ar. bāb) and floral-patterned illuminations, in combination with bird motives, ornamented circles etc. are painted in the margins normally to introduce a new book. Similar illuminations sporadically appear in the margins through out the codex. On fol. 163v a circle-floral illumination takes up the page.
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Waterstains, wormholes, etc. Partly restored (fols. 1-9 replaced); original margins often missing.
Marginalia: very few notes
Quires: (the codex is rebound and it is difficult to tell)
Para-textual notes: Waqfiyya on fol. 162v; and on 252v. A few paratextual notes by the scribe pertaining to the texts copied from (cf. fol. 164r).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Immediate source of acquisition: Bought by Sir Charles A. Murray 12 June 1845
- Finding Aids:
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), pp. 4-5.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)