Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Gospels. Questions and answers about Arabic grammar.

Authors

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Coleman, George Dawson, active 20th century, donor

Call number

Lewis O 164
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2529125
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141198735
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_164.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2529125

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Summary

Incomplete copy of the Gospels, beginning in chapter 44 of Mark and ending in the second chapter of Luke, and notated with divisions for reading on specific days; followed by leaves of a question and answer book about Arabic grammar copied in a different hand. The leaves for this second work have been remargined and inset into larger frames so that the two works could be bound together.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Iii, 120, iv leaves : 187 x 120 (111 x 56) mm bound to 185 x 120 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added, top left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in Western style green leather with gold tooled design; horizontal bands on the spine which is stamped "Hindoo Mss."

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; second text written in 12-15 lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; second text border-ruled in double red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Second work written in naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Grammar--Miscellanea--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Gospels].
• fol. 106r — [Questions and answers about Arabic grammar].