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- Record Id:
- 040-002041558
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002041530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000451.0x00006d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11855
- Title:
- Pentateuch
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains an early example of Christian adaptations of Saadiah Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Pentateuch (Genesis, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy) and Syriac-based Arabic translation of Exodus, Numbers, and replaced folios (Syr.2).
(Notes in Latin and English on fol. 1a)
Genesis, fols. 2v–51v
Exodus, fols. 52r–94v
Leviticus, fols. 95r–128v
Numbers, fols. 129r–173v
Deuteronomy, fols. 174r–215r
Colophon: fol. 215v
On fol. 215r, we are informed that missing folios (الفراغ) in the original copy, dated 1024 CE (740 AM), were restored in 1632 CE (1348 AM). On the first folio, there is a statement that the copy was found in Egypt by Franciscan missionaries and sent by the keeper of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the College de Propaganda Fide, where it arrived 16 January 1634 CE.
Parts of Genesis 18 is transcribed in Cureton and Rieu. Catalogus, 20.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002041530
040-002041558 - Is part of:
- Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11855 : Pentateuch - Hierarchy:
- 032-002041530[0028]/040-002041558
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 text, 215 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1024
- End Date:
- 1632
- Date Range:
- 1024-1632
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Oriental paper (original part)/European paper (replaced folios)
Dimensions: ca 230 mm x 150 mm leaf [190 mm x 120 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. Coptic Epact numerals are left on the original folios.
Lines per page: 18 lines/page.
Script: Naskh.
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red and sometimes in blue.
Decoration: Four red dots arranged as a diamond or crosses are used in connection to rubrics. Three red dots arranged in an up–side–down triangle used to separate units in the running text.
Binding: British Museum, Bibliotheca Butleriana
Condition: Good. The following folios were replaced in the restoration of this manuscript in 1632: fols. 1–19, 24–25, 37, 113, 206–207, 214–215, cf. Vollandt, Arabic, 222, a more accurate account than Cureton and Rieu. Catalogus, 20 (item 18).
Marginalia: A few notes.
Quire marks: Quinions. A quire is marked with Arabic letters in the upper left corner of the recto.
Catchwords: In the restored folios at the lower margin the left corner of a verso.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired by the British Museum from Dr Adam Clark’s Collection.
- Finding Aids:
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[ACX 18] Cureton, William and Charles Rieu. Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda: Pars I [a] (London: The British Museum, 1846), Item 18, p. 20.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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Selected Studies
Vollandt, Ronny. Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch: A Comparative Study of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources (Leiden: Brill, 2015).