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Or 1319
- Record Id:
- 032-004396055
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004396055
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172515145.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172846579.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1319
- Title:
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Major Prophets
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentation, Baruch, the Epistle of Jeremiah, in Coptic and Arabic. The Arabic text seems to be the translation attributed to al-ʿAlam al-Iskandarī.
Contents :
Illumination, Isaiah, fol. 1v
Isaiah, fols. 2r–97r
waqfiyya, fol. 97r
Illumination Jeremiah and Baruch, fol. 97v
Jeremiah, fols. 98r–194v
Lamentation, fols. 194v–203v
Baruch, fols. 204r–212r
Epistle of Jeremiah, fols. 212r–216r
Colophon, fols. 216v–217r
waqfiyya, fol. 217r
List of liturgical readings from Isaiah and Jeremiah, fols. 217v–218r, 219 r (218v blank)
Illumination, fol. 220r
Colophon: fols. 216v–217r
The manuscript was produced on behalf of Bishop Athanasius of Abū Tīj. It was completed in Emshīr 1522 Anno Martyrum (February 1806 CE), cf. Rieu, Supplement, 6; Crum, Catalogue, 319.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004396055", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 1319: Major Prophets" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004396055
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004396055
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item, 220 ff.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100172846579.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Coptic - Scripts:
- Arabic
Coptic - Start Date:
- 1806
- End Date:
- 1806
- Date Range:
- 1806
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: European paper.
Dimensions: 430 mm x 285 mm [330 mm x 190 mm written: the Arabic column: 330 mm x 40 mm].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Coptic folio numerals on recto.
Lines per page: 33 lines/page.
Script: Naskh.
Scribe: The scribe of the Coptic text is Yūḥannā b. Sulaymān and that of the Arabic text Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, priest in the Church of the Virgin in Cairo.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and other text units and text dividers in red.
Decoration: Two large, colourful illuminations preceding the prophets (fol. 1v and 97v) as well as one at the end, without colour (fol. 220r). In addition, coloured animals and geometrical patters sporadically appear in the margins.
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good.
Marginalia: Some notes.
Quire marks: Quinions; an ending and beginning of a quire spread is marked with geometrical figures in red, yellow, silver, green and/or white in the middle of the upper margins of each page, with Coptic numerals on both sides of the figure.
Catch words: In Coptic (lower right corner of the verso).
Other: Waqfiyyāt on fols. 97r and 217r inform us that the manuscript was donated to the monastery of Saint Anthony and provide restrictions of its use.
- Custodial History:
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Also known as Or 1319 (CM 726)
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the British Museum from Sir Charles A. Murray on 12 June 1875.
- Finding Aids:
- Rieu, Charles. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 3, pp. 5–6; Crum, Walter Erwing. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts at the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), item 726, p. 319.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)