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Or 5918

Record Id:

032-004537681

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-004537681

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 5918

Title:

Prophets

Scope & Content:

This volume contains the Major and Minor Prophets in Arabic translation.

Contents:

Ezekiel, fols. 117v–167r

(Fol. 167v blank)

Daniel, 168r–189r

Bel and the Dragon. fols. 189r–191v

Calendars (?) in Syriac, fols. 191v–192r, including colophon?

Hosea, fols. 192v–200r

Joel, fols. 200v–203r

Amos, fols. 203v–209v

Mica, fols. 210r–214r

Obadiah, fols. 214v–215r

Jonah, fols. 215v–217r

Nahum, fols. 217v–219r

Habakkuk, fols. 219v–221r

Zephaniah, fols. 221v–223v

Haggai, fols. 224r–225v

Zachariah, fols. 226r–231r (beginning missing)

Malachi, fols. 231v (end missing)

Readers/buyers’ notes, fols. 232r

The Readers’ and buyers’ notes are in Arabic and Karshuni. In the first Arabic note we read that Ibrāhīm … b. qass Isḥāq…from the village Qālūq… saw this copy in the year 1930 according to the Greek Era (=1618 CE) during the reign of Patriarch Hidāyat Allāh, Patriarch of Antioch.

There is a colophon within the circle in Syriac on fol. 192r, providing the year 1770 in the Seleucid era (1458 CE). The colophon is connected to a bishop George (ܠܓܐܘܪܓܝ ܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ). Ellis and Edwards, however, date the ms to the 13th–14th c. (cf. Descriptive, 69).

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, 232 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Syriac

Scripts:

Arabic
Syriac

Start Date:

1458

End Date:

1458

Date Range:

1458

Calendar:

Gregorian

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Material: Oriental paper.

Dimensions: 230–240 x ca 160 mm [195 x 115 mm written].

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil and in Coptic Epact numbers.

Lines per page: 19–20 lines/page.

Script: Naskh.

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red. Stops uncoloured or in red.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Condition: Good, though the margins of the first and the last folios are missing and restored.

Marginalia: A few notes in Arabic and Syriac. Sporadically section numbers in Greek.

Quire marks: Quinions; a new quire is marked on the upper left corner of a recto in Arabic letters (eighth etc).

Catch words: In Karshuni in the lower margin at the left corner of a verso, seemingly by a different (later) hand.

Source of Acquisition:

Immediate source of acquisition: Bought of David Fetto on April 13, 1901.

Finding Aids:

Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 69.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

For more information about the work and its context, see:

Hjälm, Miriam L. ‘The Changing Face of the Arabic Bible: Translation Techniques in Early Renditions of Ezekiel’, Open Theology 2, issue 1 (2016): 832–848.

Hjälm, Miriam L. ‘The Major Prophets in Arabic: The authorship of Pethiōn Revisited in Light of New Findings’, in Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims, edited by Miriam L. Hjälm (Biblia Arabica, 5; Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 448–483.

Vaccari, Alberto. ‘Le versioni arabe dei profeti.’ Biblica 3 (1922): 401–423.