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Arundel Or 19

Record Id:

032-004515225

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel Or 19

Title:

Bible

Scope & Content:

This volumes contains the Gospels, Acts, the Pauline Epistles according to the Egyptian Vulgate (Syr.3), the Catholic Epistles, 151 Psalms according to Ibn al-Fadl’s version, and ten biblical Odes.

Contents:

Matthew, fols. 1v–42v

Mark, fols. 43r–69r

Luke, fols. 69v–115v

John, fols. 116r–152r

(Fols. 152v–153r blank)

Acts. fols. 153v–202v

(Fol. 203r blank)

Romans, fols. 203v–223v

1 Corinthians, fols. 223v–244r

2 Corinthians, fols. 244v–256v

Galatians, fols. 257r–263r

Ephesians, fols. 263v–269r

Philippians, fols. 269v–274r

Colossians, fols. 274r–278r

1 Thessalonians, fols. 278v–282r

2 Thessalonians, fols. 282v–284v

1 Timothy, fols. 284v–290r

2 Timothy, fols. 290r–293v

Titus, fols. 293v–296r

Philemon, fols. 296r–297r

Hebrews, fols. 297r–312r

James, fols. 312v–317r

1 Peter, fols. 317v–322v

2 Peter, fols. 323r–326r

(Fol. 326v blank)

1 John, fols. 327r–331v

2 John, 332r–v

3 John, fols. 332v–333r

Jude, fols. 333v–334v

(Fol. 335r blank)

150 Psalms, fols. 335v–411r

Psalm 151, fol. 411v

The First Song of Moses, fols. 412r–412v

The Second Song of Moses, fols. 412v–414v

The Song of Hannah, fols. 414v–415r

The Prayer of Habakkuk, fols. 415r–415v

The Prayer of Isaiah, fols. 415v–416r

The Prayer of Jonah, fols. 416r–416v

The Prayer of Azariah, fols. 416v–417v

The Song of the Three Young Men, fols. 418r–418v

Magnificat, fols. 418v

The Song of Zacharias, fols. 418v–419r

The colophons can be found on ff 152r and 334v and have been transcribed in Cureton and Rieu, p. 14.

The manuscript is dated 7124 GE (Year of Adam) and 1025 AH (1616 CE).

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, 419 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic

Scripts:

Arabic

Start Date:

1616

End Date:

1616

Date Range:

1616

Calendar:

Gregorian

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Material: European paper.

Dimensions: Ca 155 mm x 105 mm.

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil.

Lines per page: 21 lines/page. Only about half the page is used, large outer margins.

Script: Naskh.

Scribe: Thalja/Talja b. al-Ḥawarī Ḥawrān al-Ḥamawī.

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and text divisions in red.

Decoration: Heading in blue and gold, fol. 1v. Frames in thin golden lines on each page. The end of a book is written in a triangle.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Condition: Good.

Marginalia: Few.

Catchwords: Lower left part of a verso.

Other: Every third psalm is marked with ‘doxa’.

Source of Acquisition:

Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis., fol 1r.

Finding Aids:

Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846–1871), Item 14, pp. 14–16.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

Selected Studies

Zaki, Vevian. The Pauline Epistles in Arabic: Manuscripts, Versions, and Transmissions (Leiden: Brill, 2021).