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

Title

Muqaddimat al-Rasāʼil Būlus.
مقدمة الرسائل بولس

Authors

• Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Muʼtaman Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, active 13th century
  ابن العسال، المؤتمن ابو اسحاق ابراهيم،
• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407

Other related names

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor
• Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, associated name
  رشيدي، ابراهيم بن يوسف.
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 175
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977693053703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1150883880
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms175.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1800?

Summary

Letters of Saint Paul with commentary; ends abruptly.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 9r).
   
• A quire of 8 leaves containing a title page, table of contents and the first part of the first homily of John Chrysostom is inserted at the beginning; likely misplaced from CAJS Rar Ms 176 which contains the rest of that text (with the missing beginning recopied on later paper in a different hand). The inserted leaves also contain the signature of the same owner, Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī, next to the header for the first homily, where it appears in the rest of the homilies in CAJS Rar Ms 176.
   

Extent

I, 196 leaves : 330 x 232 (250 x 165) bound to 335 x 235 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 196; 1-82, i, 83-196; modern script foliation in pencil, upper center recto; Coptic foliation, upper left recto; catchwords on versos, lower left corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Damaged brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); repaired with printed material.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Sets of four dots occasionally appear throughout.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate front flyleaf recto).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate front flyleaf recto).
   

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — al-Kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Durr al-muntakhab li-Yūḥannā al-Dhahabī
• fol. 6r — Muqaddimat Rasāʼil Būlus.