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Or 422
- Record Id:
- 032-004519244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004519244
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100179132987.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 422
- Title:
- Pentateuch
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains translations of the Pentateuch from Coptic.
Contents:
Genesis, fols. 1r–63r (incomplete at beginning, see below)
Exodus, fols. 64v–153v
Leviticus. fols. 154r–219v
Numbers, fols. 220r–304v (incomplete at beginning)
Deuteronomy, fols. 305r–363v
The volume also contains an extra folio found later (cf. Crum, Catalogue, 315), corresponding to the missing beginning of Genesis.
Some additional folios are missing, see Crum, Catalogue, 315 and Vollandt, Arabic, 268.
The colophon for the manuscript can be found on f 63r and gives the date of completion as 29 Bābah 1109 AM (1393 CE). It is transcribed in Crum, Catalogue, p. 315.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004519244", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 422: Pentateuch" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004519244
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004519244
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 364 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Coptic - Scripts:
- Arabic
Coptic - Start Date:
- 1393
- End Date:
- 1393
- Date Range:
- 1393
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Oriental paper.
Dimensions: 265 mm x 170 mm [210 mm x 160 mm written of which the Arabic column is ca 30–40 mm].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. See also remark on quires below.
Lines per page: (Arabic) 26 lines/page.
Script: (Arabic) Naskh.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and marker in red (in Coptic text).
Decoration: Illuminated rubrics (cf. bāb) in red, green, and yellow.
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Many holes, seemingly worm eaten. One dismembered folio was originally catalogued as Or. 1242.
Marginalia: A few variants of the Coptic, cf. Crum, Catalogue, 315.
Quire marks: Normally six bifolia/quire. Folios in a quire are numbered 1–6 in the upper left corner on the verso with Coptic numerals and starts anew in the next quire.
- Custodial History:
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A waqf on fols. 63r etc, informs us that the volume was presented to the Monastery of Anba Abshay (Anba Bishoy).
Formerly Copt. 712
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bt. of Tattam's sale, 16 June 1868.
- Finding Aids:
- Crum, W. E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2 (London: the British Museum. 1905), item 712, p. 315.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- Vollandt, Ronny. Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch: A Comparative Study of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources (Leiden: Brill, 2014).