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Or 1318
- Record Id:
- 032-004396054
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004396054
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172515141.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172846173.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1318
- Title:
- St. Paul’s Epistles
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains a bilingual Coptic-Arabic translation of the Pauline Epistles (ArabCopt2), arranged in two columns.
Contents :
Romans (beginning missing, starts at 5:15), fols. 1r–42r
1 Corinthians, fols. 42v–100r
2 Corinthians, fols. 100v–139r
Galatians, fols. 139v–158r
Ephesians, fols. 158v–178v
Philippians, fols. 179r–192v
Colossians, fols. 193r–206r
1 Thessalonians, fols. 206v–218v
2 Thessalonians, fols. 219r–225v
1 Timothy, fols. 226r–241r
2 Timothy, fols. 241v–252r
Titus, fols. 252v–258v
Philemon, fols. 259r–261v
Hebrews, fols. 262r–294v (incomplete)
For extract and more details, see Rieu, Supplement, 10–11.
The colophon is found on fol. 261v, where it is stated that the copy was completed on the 29 Kiyahk 1132 Anno Martyrum (4 January 1416 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004396054", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 1318: St. Paul’s Epistles" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004396054
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004396054
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 294 fols.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Coptic - Scripts:
- Arabic
Coptic - Start Date:
- 1416
- End Date:
- 1416
- Date Range:
- 1416
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Oriental paper.
Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm [200 x 140 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Coptic numerals. On foliation, see also Crum, Catalogue, 329n3.
Lines per page: 19–21 lines/page.
Script: Naskh.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and stops in red.
Decoration: Rubricated headings in a ribbon-pattern in yellow, red, black (cf. bāb) introduce a book (see more Horner, vol. 3, xxxiv).
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Generally good, incomplete in the beginning and end; first folios have restored margins.
Marginalia: Some notes, including corrections in Arabic.
Quire marks: Quinions; an ending and beginning quire spread are marked with decorative stamps in the middle of the upper margins.
Catch words: In the Coptic text in the lower margin at the right side of a verso.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by the British Museum from Sir Charles A. Murray on 12 June 1875.
- Finding Aids:
-
Crum, Walter Erwing. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), item 759, pp. 329–330.
Rieu, Charles. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 12, pp. 10–11.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- For more information, please see:
Horner, George. The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Northern Dialect Otherwise Called Memphitic and Bohairic with Introd., Critical Apparatus, and Literal English Transl.: The Epistles of S. Paul Edited from Ms. Oriental 424 in the British Museum. Vol. 3. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1905), pp. xxxiii– xxxiv.
Zaki, Vevian. The Pauline Epistles in Arabic: Manuscripts, Versions, and Transmissions (Leiden: Brill, 2021).