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

Title

al-Muṣḥaf al-Muqaddas.
المصحف المقدس

Other related names

• Yaʻqūb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1760, patron
  يعقوب بن ابراهيم،
• Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, former owner
  رشيدي، ابراهيم بن يوسف،
• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 166
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977693053803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1150883192
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms166.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1760

Place

Egypt

Summary

Copy of the Pentateuch and Historical Books (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles).

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 158v, 349v).
   
• Owner's notations on the flyleaves and next to every colophon.
   

Watermark

Three crescent moons; anchor.

Extent

Ii, 349, ii leaves : 300 x 205 (220 x 135) mm bound to 295 x 205 mm

Foliation

Coptic numeral foliation, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Foliation in Arabic numerals added in pencil, upper left recto. References in the record are to the Arabic foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); faint blind stamped central mandorla on covers with inlay mandorla on flap; plain paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines.

Decoration

Headpieces in red, yellow and black with occasional green (f. 1r, 43r, 76r, 100r, 131v, 159r, 180r, 200r, 203r, 230v, 252v, 277v, 301r, 323r); rubrications in red; some small ornaments in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, 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 ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (numerous notations and signatures, see f. 42v, 99v, for example).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Bibles
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — al-Muṣḥaf al-Muqaddas.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 42v — Owner's notation
• fol. 43r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 76r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 99v — Owner's notation
• fol. 99v — Drawing
• fol. 100r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 131r — Owner's notation
• fol. 131v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 158v — Owner's notation
• fol. 159r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 180r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 200r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 203r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 230v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 252v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 277v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 301r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 322v — Owner's notation
• fol. 323r — Illuminated headpiece