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

Title

Injīl Yūḥannā al-bashīr.
انجيل يوحنا البشير

Other related names

• 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 171
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977780053703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1164687411
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms171.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1800 and 1899?

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Gospel of John in Arabic missing the last verse.

Notes

• Title from caption title (f. 1r)
   
• Description of the manuscript in ink in English with the number 5 in roman numeral at the top of the page, laid in.
   

Watermark

Crescent moon with face in profile in shield (Abū Shubbāk).

Extent

79 leaves : 126 x 84 (80 x 55) mm bound to 130 x 90 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown textile over pasteboard; no spine; two sewing stations; modern label with manuscript identification and number adhered around spine between the sewing stations and extending onto both covers.

Layout

Written in 9 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Cyrus Adler to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside back cover).
   
• Likely formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (somewhat effaced owner's note, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside back cover).
   

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Injīl Yūḥannā al-bashīr.

Decorations

• Inside back cover — Library bookplate