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

Title

Selection of Psalms to be read on specific days of the months.

Other related names

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 178
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977780053603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1164688172
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms178.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1899?

Summary

A selection of Psalms to be recited at specific times and on specific days of the Coptic months; the copy begins abruptly, is missing pages and only includes parts of the following five months: Tūt, Hātūr, Kiyahk, Ṭūbah and Amshīr.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Description of manuscript in English laid in.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 150 x 96 (110 x 60) mm bound to 150 x 90 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Wrapped in a reused binding that does not quite fit the textblock; detached; boards are blind-stamped with a central mandorla.

Layout

Written in 12 long lines; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Headings in larger script.

Script

Written in informal naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Cyrus Adler to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside back cover).
   
• Formerly owned Cyrus Adler (note on bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Coptic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Devotional literature--Coptic

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Selection of Psalms to be read on specific days of the months].

Decorations

• Inside back cover — Library bookplate