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Or 3706
- Record Id:
- 032-004519352
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004519352
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100179222121.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3706
- Title:
- Psalms and Odes
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains an Arabic translation of the Psalms and Odes, with the Psalms seemingly translated from the Syriac Peshitta.
The first folios are missing and the text starts in Psalm 8 and runs till the end of Ps 147. For an excerpt of the beginning of Psalm 12, see Rieu, Supplement, 6.
Contents:
Psalms, fols. 1r–110v
Biblical Odes, fols. 111r–118r
The (First) Song of Moses (Ex. 15:1–21), fols. 111r–113r
(Additional Odes, which seem to include the Song of Isaiah etc), fols. 113r–117r
Magnificat (Luke 1:46–56), fol. 117v–118r
The Nicene Creed? 118r–118v
The manuscript does not contain a colophon and is presumed to have been copied in the 15th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004519352
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004519352
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 118 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Oriental paper.
Dimensions: Ca 125 x 80 mm [90–100 x 50–60 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil.
Lines per page: 11–12 lines/page.
Script: Naskh.Ink: Brown ink, with rubricated headings in red.
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Incomplete at beginning and end. The first and last folios are partly torn off. Almost all text on fols. 18–19 is lost. The margins are often torn and the text on some folios is difficult to decipher.Quire marks: Quinions (the upper right corner on recto where the quire marks are to be written are often lost).Other: Occasionally four red or brown dots shaped as a diamond, or one red or brown dot, divides units or Psalms.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bought by Budge in 1889.
- Finding Aids:
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 4, p. 6
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)