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Harley MS 5469
- Record Id:
- 040-002051315
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051315
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003de
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5469
- Title:
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Psalms
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains an Arabic translation of 151 Psalms, with certain similarities to Ibn al-Tayyib’s version.
Contents:
150 Psalms, fols. 3v–372v
(Fols. 353v–354r blank)
Psalm 151, fols. 372v–374r
Psalm 2 is transcribed in Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 7.
The manuscript does not contain a colophon but is presumed to have been copied in the 17th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051315", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5469: Psalms" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051315 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5469 : Psalms - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5471]/040-002051315
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Codex, 374 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Syriac - Scripts:
- Arabic
Syriac - Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: European paper
Dimensions: ca 115–120 mm x 80 mm
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Lines per page: Ca. 7 lines/page.
Script: Elegant broken script. The size of the script varies. Ink: Black–brown ink, with rubricated headings in red or gold. Some dividing dots in red.Binding: British Museum binding.
Condition: Good.
Marginalia: Some Syriac notes in the margins. Small adjustments normally made within the running text.
Catchwords: Lower parts of both verso and recto.
Other: A handwritten note in Latin folded and sawn into the front binding. It is partly transcribed in Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 8 and there attributed to Solomon Negri.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Acquired on 13 July 1723.
- Finding Aids:
- Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846–71), Item 6, pp. 7–8.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)