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

Title

Four Gospels.

Other related names

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor
• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner
• Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm, former owner
  رشيدي، ابراهيم،
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 168
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235613503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276879247
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms168.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1792

Place

Egypt?

Summary

The Four Gospels preceded by an introduction and index. Chapters are indicated in the margins in Coptic numerals.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from front flyleaf.
   

Extent

I, 272 leaves : 120 x 88 (100 x 70) mm bound to 125 x 100 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Pasteboard with paper sides and textile spine.

Layout

Written in black and red ink. Includes title-headings, catchwords, and diacritics.

Decoration

Frontispiece of crosses in black ink (f. 1r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized. The following leaves are of a later and cheaper paper and by a second hand, probably that of Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī : 1-13, 17-18, 42-77, 208-213, 220-221, 242-243, 262-263, 271-272.

Provenance

• Gift of Cyrus Adler to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Cyrus Adler (library bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī (back flyleaf).
   

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Four Gospels]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in ink.
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Drawing in ink
• fol. 1r — Headpiece
• fol. 5r — Table
• fol. 5v — Table
• fol. 6r — Table
• fol. 272r — Notations in ink.