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Or 8740
- Record Id:
- 032-004565590
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004565590
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100190135963.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 8740
- Title:
- Pauline Epistles
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains Arabic translations of Romans and 1–2 Corinthians (ArabSyr3).
Contents :
Romans, fols. 1r–29r
1 Corinthians, fols. 29v–56v
2 Corinthians, fols. 57r–72v
The manuscript does not contain a colophon and is presumed to have been copied in the 18th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-004565590", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 8740: Pauline Epistles" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004565590
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-004565590
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex, 72 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: European paper.
Dimensions: 250 x 165 mm [170–180 x 120 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Arabic as well as Coptic Epact numerals (on the second scribe's pages).
Lines per page: 15–16 lines/page.
Script: Naskh; another scribe has written fols. 63–72.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red; stops in red and silver.
Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good.
Marginalia: A few notes.
Quires marks: (different size of quires).
Catch words: Lower margin at the left corner of a verso.
- Custodial History:
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A note from R Curzon, Cairo, March 21 1838 ‘The Romans & Corinthians, Translated from Coptic, into the Arabic language’.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bequeathed by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche to the British Museum on 13 October 1917.
- Finding Aids:
- Baker, Colin F. Subject Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library (London: The British Library, 2001), 402.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Curzon, Darea, Baroness Zouche of Harringworth, 1860-1917
- Related Material:
- See also Zaki, Vevian. The Pauline Epistles in Arabic: Manuscripts, Versions, and Transmissions (Leiden: Brill, 2021).