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Sloane Or 1796
- Record Id:
- 040-002114150
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x0001d3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane Or 1796
- Title:
- Pauline Epistles
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains a bilingual Latin translation of the Pauline Epistles (ArabSyr3), with the final component in Arabic.
Contents :
Latin, preface and biblical books, fols. 1r–54r
(fol. 54v blank)
Titus, fols. 55r–61v (59r–65v)
Philemon, fols. 62r–65v (55r–58v)
There is no colophon to the volume, and the manuscript is believed to have been copied in the 17th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002114150 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane Or 1796 : Pauline Epistles - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[1798]/040-002114150
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Codex, 65 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Latin - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - 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: 150 x 100 mm [100 x 60 mm written].
Foliation: Two systems are used: red numerals throughout and in addition, pencil foliation on the folios with Arabic text on the opposite side. Also, Arabic numerals added in the middle of the lower margins.
Lines per page: 11 lines/page
Script: Naskh (very nice hand)
Scribe: William Bedwell (? cf. Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 19n3)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red, green, and gold
Decoration: Gilded fore-edge.
Condition: Generally good though last folios and backbinding are loose.
Catchwords: In the lower margin at the left corner of a page
- 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 16, p. 19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- For more information, please see:
Zaki, Vevian. The Pauline Epistles in Arabic: Manuscripts, Versions, and Transmissions (Leiden: Brill, 2021).