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Or 426
- Record Id:
- 032-004541069
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004541069
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100182564239.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 426
- Title:
- Gospel of John
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains a bilingual Coptic-Arabic version of the Gospel of John (from John 1:23b to end), according to the Alexandrian Vulgate tradition.
Contents : John, fols. 1r–138r
(Fol. 138v blank)
Notes on liturgical readings etc, fols. 139r–146r
The manuscript does not contain a colophon, but is estimated to have been completed in the 13th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004541069", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 426: Gospel of John" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004541069
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004541069
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 146 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Coptic - Scripts:
- Arabic
Coptic - Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Oriental paper.
Dimensions: 245 x 165 mm leaf [190 x 120 mm written; Arabic 30 mm].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Coptic numerals in the upper left corner of the verso.
Lines per page: ca 17 lines/page.
Script: Naskh.Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red.Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good, though margins often cut.
Marginalia: A few notes (margins often cut).
Quire marks: Normally quinions; an ending and beginning quire spread is marked with geometrical figures usually uncoloured but sometimes in red ink in the middle of the upper margins.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased by the British Museum at Dean H. Tattam's sale on 16 June 1868.
- Finding Aids:
- Crum, Walter Erwing, Catalogue of the Coptic Mss in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), item 752, p. 327.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- For further information, see Kashouh, Hikmat. The Arabic Versions of the Gospels: The Manuscripts and Their Families (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), p. 208.