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Harley MS 5475
- Record Id:
- 040-002051321
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051321
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003e4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5475
- Title:
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Pentateuch
- Scope & Content:
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This copy transmits the Pentateuch in Arabic, according to a Coptic adaptation of Saadiah Gaon’s Tafsīr. For excerpts, see Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 1–2.
Contents:
Genesis (from 1:10–), fols. 1r–72v
(blank unfoliated folio)
Exodus, fols. 73v–131r
(Fols. 131v–132r blank)
Leviticus, fols.132v–172v
(Fol. 173r blank)
Numbers, fols. 173v–232v
(Fol. 233r blank)
Deuteronomy, fols. 233v–280v (incomplete)
(Note in Latin on fol. 281r)
(Fols. 281v–282r blank)
Discussions on the law, fols. 282v–285v.
Parts from Genesis 2 and the discussion on the meaning of the law are transcribed in Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 1–2.
The manuscript does not include a colophon and is believed to have been copied in the 14th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051321", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5475: Pentateuch" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051321 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5475 : Pentateuch - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5477]/040-002051321
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Codex, 285 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Latin - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Oriental paper.
Dimensions: 255 mm x 175 mm leaf [195 mm x 130 mm written].
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. Foliation also in Coptic Epact numerals (starting a new for each book).
Lines per page:15 lines/page.
Script: Naskh
Ink: Black ink
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Good. First folio is missing.
Marginalia: Some notes
Quire marks: Quinions. A new quire is marked in the upper left corner of the recto (in Arabic letter, sixth etc).Other: Notes in Latin
- Finding Aids:
- 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 1, pp. 1–2.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
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Selected Studies
Rhode, Joseph Francis. The Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch in the Church of Egypt: A Study from Eighteen Arabic and Copto–Arabic MSS (ix–xvii century) in the National Library at Paris, the Vatican and Bodleian Libraries and the British Museum (Leipzig: W. Drugulin, 1921).
Vollandt, Ronny. Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch: A Comparative Study of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources (Leiden: Brill, 2015).