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

Title

Gospel of Mark in Coptic.

Other related names

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

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 189
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977796552103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1191225217
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms189.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Coptic with some Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Gospel of Mark in Coptic, missing the first five verses, with some Arabic translation at the beginning (f. 1-14).

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Ii, 149, iii leaves : 155 x 105 (120 x 70) mm bound to 155 x 110 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Disbound; held between pulpboard boards with yellow marbled paper sides; no spine; quires are oversewn.

Layout

Written in 16 lines; frame-ruled; the first 14 leaves have a column in Coptic on the left (70 mm) and a column in Arabic on the right (30 mm); the rest of the text is the single column of Coptic with a wide margin on the right where the Arabic would have been.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; illuminated initial letters in yellow, red, green.

Script

Written in Coptic with Arabic in 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 front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Cyrus Adler (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Coptic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Bibles
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Gospel of Mark in Coptic].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• Inside back cover — Library bookplate