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Title

Kitāb madāʼiḥ yataḍammanu madāʼiḥ li-shahr Kīhak wa-al-aʻyād al-sayyidīyah kibār wa-ṣighār wa-madāʼiḥ al-arbaʻīn al-muqaddasah wa-al-ṣalīb.
كتاب مدائح يتضمن مدائح لشهر كيهك والاعياد السيدية كبار وصغار ومدائح الأربعين المقدسة والصليب

Authors

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Other related names

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor
• Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, former owner
  رشيدي، ابراهيم بن يوسف.

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 180
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276880216
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms180.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic with some Coptic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1850?

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Collection of hymns used in the Coptic Church for the month of Kīhak and for the seven major and minor feasts and for Lent. 77 hymns in all.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2r).
   
• Copy has ms. marks in ink and blue pencil on pastedowns and first leaf; a few ms. marginal marks and annotations in text; occasional ink smudges and blots and wax drips on leaves. Four small modern ms. leaves identifying hymns laid in.
   

Extent

173 leaves : 162-166 x 118-121 mm., bound to 172 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, 173; 1-159, [i], 160-172; modern Roman script foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Catchwords on versos, lower center or lower left corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Full dark leather with fore-edge flap and envelope flap; boards and flaps tooled in blind; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Spine and tail of upper board repaired with red leather; spine and lower board partially detached from textblock; some wormholes in spine and a few in boards and flaps.

Layout

Written in 13 to 15 lines per page in black and red ink; text frame-ruled in blind.

Decoration

decorative opening in black and red ink (f. 1r); a few leaves at beginning of volume have simple decorative elements in black and red ink.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink, pointed, with two punctuation signs, a colon (:) and two slanting parallel lines (//). Folios 156-159, [i], 160-172, in a different hand, are more recent.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (note f. 163r).
   
• Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown).\
   

Subjects topical

• Coptic Church--Liturgy
• Coptic Church--Prayers and devotions
• Coptic Church
• Fasts and feasts--Coptic church
• Devotional calendars--Coptic church
• Christian poetry, Arabic--Egypt--Early works to 1800
• Christian poetry, Arabic
• Liturgics
• Egypt

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Early works

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Kitāb madāʼiḥ yataḍammanu madāʼiḥ li-shahr Kīhak wa-al-aʻyād al-sayyidīyah kibār wa-ṣighār wa-madāʼiḥ al-arbaʻīn al-muqaddasah wa-al-ṣalīb

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 2r — Simple headpiece