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Add MS 5995
- Record Id:
- 032-004543235
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004543235
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100185570173.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5995
- Title:
- Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains bilingual Coptic-Arabic Gospels, according to Ibn al-ʿAssāl’s version.
Contents:
Decorative cross, fol. 1v
Matthew, fols. 2r–70v
Mark, fols. 71r–110v
Luke, fols. 111r–182r
John, fols. 182v–233v
The colophon is found on fol. 233v. In it, the scribe notes that the codex was repaired the year 1190 Hijra/1492 Anno Martyrum (1776 CE; cf. Crum, Catalogue, 322). Cureton omits the number 1492 and calculates the year 1190 according to the Anno Martyrum calendar and converts it to 1474 CE. This seems unlikely since the colophon states that the original date was 400 years older, which is very early for this sort of text. Finally, the colophon mentions that it was requested by the Monastery of al-Baramūs in Wadi Natrun and that the scribe was Ibrāhīm ibn Samʿān (the note is transcribed in [AC] Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 355).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004543235", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 5995: Gospels" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004543235
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004543235
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 233 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Coptic - Scripts:
- Arabic
Coptic - Start Date:
- 1776
- End Date:
- 1776
- Date Range:
- 1776
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Oriental paper (restored parts on European paper).
Dimensions: 400 x 265 mm leaf [320–330 x 180–190 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil and in Greek uncials.
Lines per page: ca 28–33/lines per page.
Script: Different hands, Naskh; the younger scribe is Ibrāhīm ibn Samʿān.Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and stops in red.
Decoration: A cross on fol. 1v and decorative book headings introducing the four gospels in green, yellow, red, and purple; snake in the margin of fol. 71r.
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good. Fols. 1–10; 18–19; 70; 108–121; 128–132; 136–137; 182–184; 199–200; 202; 233 are restored.
Marginalia: Some notes, including text-critical remarks in red; section numbers in Coptic Epact numbers.Other: There are some additional notes on the restored folios on 70v and 110v.
- Custodial History:
- Manuscript 732 in Crum's catalogue.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Brought from Egypt by Major General Turner, August 1801.
- Finding Aids:
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[AC] Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens [Supplementum] (London: The British Museum, 1871), item 795 p. 355.
Crum, Walter Erwing, Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), item 732, p. 322.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- Kashouh, Hikmat. The Arabic Versions of the Gospels (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012), p. 261.