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Or 3382
- Record Id:
- 032-004540957
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004540957
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100182380684.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3382
- Title:
- Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains the Gospels in Arabic with careful comparisons with the Coptic text and with Arabic translations from Greek and Syriac, collated by Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh b. Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Asʿad b. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Abū al-Sahl Jarjis b. Abū al-Bishr Yūḥannā b. al-ʿAssāl, ‘the Egyptian scribe’ (fol. 385v). It contains the Arabic version known as Ibn al-ʿAssāl’s version.
Contents :
Prologue to Matthew (restored, in modern hand), fol. 1r
Scribal notes, fol. 2r–2v
Matthew, fols. 3r–97r
Scribal note, 97v–98r
Prologue to Mark, fols. 98v–103v
Scribal note, fol. 104r
Mark, fols. 104v–167r
Scribal notes, fols. 167v–168r
Prologue to Luke, fols. 168v–176v
(Fol. 177r blank)
Luke, fols. 177v–289r
(Fols. 289v–290r blank)
Prologue to John, fols. 290v–295r
(Fols. 295v–296r blank)
John, fols. 296v–381v
(Fol. 382r blank)
Epilogue (on the text critical system used in the codex), fols. 382v–396r
Tables for reading lessons/calendar, fols. 396v–417v
See text passages and notes on the introduction in Rieu, Supplement, 7–8.
On the fly-leaf, John Dory Geden adds a note that he obtained the manuscript in Cairo in 1864, from the Rev. R.J. Lieder and that the manuscript came from the Covenant of St Anthony (transcribed in Rieu, Supplement, 8).
The name of the editor/translator is provided as Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh b. Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Asʿad b. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Abū al-Sahl Jarjis b. Abū al-Bishr Yūḥannā b. al-ʿAssāl.
The colophon is found on ff 395v–396r. Here we read that the scribe, Gabriel, finished copying the work 10 Tūba in the year 981 Anno Martyrum (12 January 1265 CE; see transcribed in Rieu, Supplement, 8). The Hijri date is also provided as 663 AH.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004540957
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004540957
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 417 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1264
- End Date:
- 1265
- Date Range:
- 1264-1265
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Oriental paper.
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm leaf [100 x 180 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil and in Coptic Epact numerals.
Lines per page: 12 lines/page.
Script: Naskh.
Scribe: Gabriel.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings, comments in red.Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good.
Marginalia: Many comments, including text-critical glosses in Coptic and Arabic.
Quire marks: Quinions, a new quire is marked in upper left corner of the recto with Arabic letters.
- Custodial History:
- A note by John Dury Geden (d. 1886) on the fly-leaf tells us that the ms was acquired in Cairo in March 1864 from the Rev. R. J. Lieder and that the ms originally came from St Anthony in the ‘Eastern Desert of Egypt’ (cf above).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bequest of the Rev. Alfred S. Geden to the British Museum on 11 Oct. 1886.
- Finding Aids:
- Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1894), item 7, pp. 7–8.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- For more information on the text, see Kashouh, Hikmat, The Arabic Versions of the Gospels (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), p. 261.