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

Title

Rasāʼil al-Qiddīs Būlus.
[رسائل القديس بولس]

Other related names

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor
• Yaʻqūb ibn Abī al-Faraḥ, scribe
  يعقوب بن ابي الفرح.
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 172
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276878212
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms172.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799?

Summary

Epistles of Paul with an introduction and an outline of their contents by the beadle Yaʻqūb ibn Abī al-Faraḥ who is probably also the copyist. There is also a detailed index at the end of the book.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Folios 1-4, 8-11, 191, 200, and one or two leaves at the end are wanting. Folio [i] torn vertically across lower portion of leaf; f. 160 torn and mended at tail margin; a few ink smudges in text.
   

Extent

194 leaves : 162 x 110 mm bound to 166 x 122 mm

Foliation

Paper, 194; [i], 5-7, 12-190, 192-199, 201-202, [203]; Coptic foliation in black and red ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Binding: Full brown blind-tooled leather; ms. paper used as binder's waste at beginning and end of volume; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Spine damaged at head and tail; boards worn, especially at edges; cuts in upper board; boards and a few leaves at beginning and end of volume detached from textblock.

Layout

Written in 15 lines per page, plus headline, in black and red ink with marginalia. One line added at foot of f. 114r; 2 lines added at foot of f. 141r.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Diagram in black and red ink (f. 31); a few leaves have decorative elements in black and red ink.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; partly vocalized.

Provenance

• Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with 2 ms. shelf marks, 1 in pencil, 1 in ink, front pastedown).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Stub recto — [Rasāʼil al-Qiddīs Būlus]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 31r — Table
• fol. 31v — Table