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Title

Kitāb al-salāmāt.
كتاب السلامات

Other related names

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 181
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276879961
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.4/12492.207106

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1745

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Prayers and invocations to the Blessed Virgin, Angels, Saints and Martyrs to be recited on special occasions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 171r).
   
• Copy has ms. inscription in Arabic script and drawing on verso of last endleaf; ms. inscription in Arabic script (f. [iv] verso); a few leaves have ms. annotations. All leaves before f. 4 and all after f. 174 wanting. Many leaves have bottom outer corners damaged or torn off; f. 45 torn vertically across lower half of leaf; f. 80 cut off at head margin without loss of text; f. 155 torn at outer margin; some leaves at end stained at outer margin.
   

Extent

171 leaves : 162 x 106 mm bound to 168 x 118 mm

Foliation

Paper, 171 + iii; 4-67, [68], 69-92, 94, [iv], 96-97, 100-174; Coptic foliation in black and red ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Full brown leather; upper board tooled in blind; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Upper board detached; lower board mutilated with severe worming; spine damaged.

Layout

Written in 9-10 lines per page in black and red ink; text frame-ruled in blind.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. 16 full page ink drawings, some colored: Virgin Mary and Christ Child (f. 34v); Angel Mīkhāʼīl (f. [65]v); Angel Ghabriyāl (f. 73v); Angel Rāfāʼīl (f. 79v); Angel Sūriyāl (f. 83v); the four incorporeal beasts (f. 86v); Yūḥannā al-Maʻmadān (f. 97v); Buṭrus, rāʼis al-rusul (f. 101v); al-Qiddīs Mār Jirjis (f. 111v); al-Qiddīs Anṭūniyūs (f. 115v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bawlā al-Sāʼiḥ̣ (f. 133v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Maqār (f. 136v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bīshuwī (f. 141v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Mūsá al-Aswad (f. 156v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bakhūm (f. 162v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Shanūdah (f. 166v). Some leaves have simple decorative elements in black and red ink.

Script

Written in a bold naskh in black and red ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• 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--Texts
• Coptic Church--Prayers and devotions

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Prayers (literary works)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Kitāb al-salāmāt

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 34v — Illustration: Virgin Mary and Christ Child
• fol. 65v — Illustration: Angel Mīkhāʼīl
• fol. 73v — Illustration: Angel Ghabriyāl
• fol. 79v — Illustration: Angel Rāfāʼīl
• fol. 83r — Small decoration
• fol. 83v — Illustration: Angel Sūriyāl
• fol. 86v — Illustration: Four incorporeal beasts
• fol. 97r — Small decoration
• fol. 97v — Illustration: Yūḥannā al-Maʻmadān
• fol. 101r — Small decoration
• fol. 101v — Illustration: Buṭrus, rāʼis al-rusul
• fol. 110v — Small decoration
• fol. 111v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Mār Jirjis
• fol. 115r — Small decoration
• fol. 115v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Anṭūniyūs
• fol. 133r — Small decoration
• fol. 133v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Anbā Bawlā al-Sāʼiḥ
• fol. 136r — Small decoration
• fol. 136v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Anbā Maqār
• fol. 141r — Small decoration
• fol. 141v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Anbā Bīshuwī
• fol. 156r — Small floral decorations
• fol. 156v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Anbā Mūsá al-Aswad
• fol. 161v — Small floral decorations
• fol. 162v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Anbā Bakhūm
• fol. 166v — Illustration: al-Qiddīs Anbā Shanūdah