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Title

al-Kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Durr al-muntakhab li-Yūḥannā al-Dhahabī.
الكتاب المسمى بالدر المنتخب ليوحنا الذهبي

Authors

• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
  يوحنا فم الذهب،
• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407

Other related names

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

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 176
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276879867
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms176.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1784

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Thirty-four homilies of John Chrysostom. Several replacement pages at the beginning of the work.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 3r).
   
• Copy has ms. shelf mark in pencil on back pastedown; ms. inscriptions in Arabic script on front pastedown, recto of front free endpaper, and recto and verso of back free endpaper; ms. inscription in Arabic at foot of f. 183v; a few ms. marginal annotations. Folio 37 torn off at bottom outer corner without loss of text; f. 41r damaged across central portion with some loss of text. Eight modern paper slips with ms. notes in Arabic script in pencil laid in.
   

Extent

181 leaves : 306 x 215 (245 x 155) bound to 320 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 182 + i; 1-2 (endleaves), 3-183, 184 (endleaf); modern script foliation in pencil, upper center recto; Coptic foliation, upper left recto (f. 6-37, 40-183). Folios 3, 5-182 have catchwords on versos, lower center or lower left corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

One-half green leather over marbled boards; white paper spine label with typed shelf mark.

Layout

Written in 20-30 lines per page and occasional marginalia; folios 3-4, 38-39 frame-ruled in lead with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Some small decorations such as a cross adjacent the colophon and sets of four dots occasionally in the upper outer corner.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Folios 1-3 and 36-37 are in a later hand which is not as clear as the first.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (autograph, f. 183v and opposite title of each homily).
   
• Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown; bookplate with ms. shelf mark, back pastedown).
   

Subjects topical

• Preaching--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
• Sermons, Greek--Translations into Arabic
• Sermons, Early Christian
• Preaching--Early church

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — al-Kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Durr al-muntakhab li-Yūḥannā al-Dhahabī

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner's notation
• fol. 1r — Owner's notation
• fol. 183v — Drawing of crosses
• fol. 183v — Owner's notation
• fol. 184r — Notations
• fol. 184v — Notations
• Inside back cover — Library bookplate