Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Muṣḥaf al-sharīf.
المصحف الشريف

Other related names

• Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm Abū Yūsuf, former owner
  رشيدي، ابراهيم ابو يوسف،
• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 167
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977642240603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863848
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_167.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic with a few words in Coptic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1190 (1776)

Place

Egypt

Summary

Copy of the second half of the Old Testament starting with Kitāb nubūwat Ishaʻyāʼ al-nabī (Isaiah).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 226v).
   
• Several full page doodles of people with swords (f. 227r-228v; inside back cover).
   

Watermark

Trelune

Extent

228 leaves : 305 x 220 (235 x 140) mm bound to 302 x 220 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); faint blind-stamped central mandorla with four pendants, one on each side and frame; red leather spine and corners; horizontal bands along spine.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; some small flower shapes in red; finispiece with birds in black (f. 226v); four pages of drawings and notes (f. 227r-inside back cover).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Cyrus Adler to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm Abū Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (note in ink, f. 226v).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Bibles
• Doodles
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 4r — al-Muṣḥaf al-sharīf.
• fol. 4r — Kitāb nubūwat Ishaʻyāʼ al-nabī

Decorations

• Front cover — Partially effaced label
• Inside front cover — Notations
• fol. 2r — Library bookplate
• fol. 226v — Drawing
• fol. 227r — Doodle
• fol. 227v — Notations and Doodles
• fol. 228r — Notations
• fol. 228v — Notations and Doodles
• Inside back cover — Doodles