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Or 1336
- Record Id:
- 032-004540953
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004540953
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100182380332.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 1336
- Title:
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Sefer Yosippon
- Additional Titles:
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History of the Jews
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains an Arabic translation of the History of the Jews (Sefer Yosippon), subdivided into 8 books. The same text as that in Or. 1326.
Contents :
History of the Jews, fols. 1v–169r
Waqfiyya, fol. 169v
The colophon: (in the replaced part) is found on f. 169r. Here, the manuscript is dated to 4 Amshīr 1402 AM (8 February 1686 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004540953", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 1336: Sefer Yosippon" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004540953
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004540953
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 169 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 (fols. 1–4; 20–21; 117; 138; 165–169 European paper).
Dimensions: 230 x 160 mm [190–220 x 110–120 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Coptic Epact numerals.
Lines per page: 17 lines/page.
Script: Elegant Naskh.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red.
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good. Fols. 1–4; 20–21; 117; 138; 165–169 restored.
Marginalia: A few (cf. 11r).
Quire marks: – (upper corners often cut).
Other: Reading notes on fols. 48v–49r; 97v; 104r; 104v (dated 899 Hijra = 1493 CE); 105r; 151v; a waqfiyya note on fol. 169v to St Anthony’s monastery in the ʿAraba desert in 1508 Anno Martyrum (= 1792 CE).
- Finding Aids:
- Rieu, Charles. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1894), Item 31, p. 22.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Or 1326