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Or 1316

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032-004543241

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ISAD(G)

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Or 1316

Title:

Gospels

Scope & Content:

This volume contains a bilingual Coptic-Arabic translation of the Gospels organized into two columns.

Contents :

(Several blank unfoliated folios)

Waqfiyya, fol. 111r

Illustration of Luke the Evangelist, fol. 111v

Decorative title page, fol. 112r

Luke, fols. 112r–180r

Waqfiyya, fol. 180v

(Several blank partly unfoliated folios)

Waqfiyya, fol. 182r

Illustration of John the Evangelist, fol. 182v

Decorative title page, fol. 183r

John, fols. 183r–229v

Colophon, fols. 230r

Dedication note, fol. 230v

(Fols. 231r–232r blank)

Table of readings for Easter week, fol. 232v–233r

Concordance of the Gospels, fols. 233v–235v (copied later in 1401 Anno Martyrum, see Rieu, Supplement, 9).

Eusebian Canons, fols. 236r–240v

(Fol. 241r blank)

Tables of readings for the Coptic Church during the year, fols. 241v–249v

The colophon is found on fol. 230r. Here we read that the copy was copied by Abū al-Munā b. Nasīm al-Naqqāsh and that he added illustrations from European and Indian copies. He finished the copy in 1379 AM (1663 CE). The lengthy colophon is partly transcribed in Rieu, Supplement, 9.

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex, 250 ff

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Arabic
Coptic

Scripts:

Arabic
Coptic

Start Date:

1663

End Date:

1663

Date Range:

1663

Calendar:

Gregorian

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: European paper.

Dimensions: 300 x 200/210 mm [230 x 150 mm written].

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil.

Lines per page: 32–33 lines/page (Arabic).

Script: Naskh.

Scribe: Abū al-Munā b. Nasīm al-Naqqāsh.

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and stops in red.

Decoration: Title pages in red, gold, green, blue, black and purple on fols. 1v–2r; illustration of each of the evangelists preceding their gospels; gospel headings are lavishly decorated; there are numerous illuminations of events from the gospels throughout the codex in many colours (“from European and Indian (?) models,” see Crum, Catalogue, 324 n.1); stamps and other figures in several colours occur frequently.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Condition: Good.

Marginalia: Section numbers in Greek letters.

Other: Folios in Greek letters.

Custodial History:

On fol. 230v it is stated that Muʿallim Luṭf-Allāh Abū Yūsuf bought the manuscript for the Church of our Lady and St George in 1449 Anno Martyrum (1732/3 CE). See Rieu, Supplement, 9. In the waqfiyya on fol. 1r, we read that the manuscript was dedicated by John the 105th Patriarch to the Church of the Virgin and St George in Ḥārat al-Rūm in Cairo, 1447 Anno Martyrum (1730/1 CE). On fol. 410v, there is a signature of Peter, the 109th patriarch who had the book in his cell, in 1532 Anno Martyrum (1816 CE); cf. Crum, Catalogue p. 324). The waqfiyya is repeated on several folios.

Finding Aids:

Rieu, Charles, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), item 9, p. 9.

Crum, Walter Erwing, Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), item 737, p. 324.

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), pp. 210, 225.