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Title

Barlām wa-Yawāṣaf.
برلام ويواصف

Other related names

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

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 183
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276880229

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1799?

Summary

Narrative of the conversion of the Indian prince Yūṣuf by the ascetic Barlām which is considered to be a Christian revision of an episode from Buddha's life. Three leaves are missing from the front of the copy, but the story itself begins on the first of the remaining leaves. The last three leaves are newer paper in a later hand. Flyleaves contain owners' inscriptions and drawings.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction to story (f. 4r).
   
• Condition: Dampstaining, some text affected; some leaves loose.
   
• Copy has 2 paper slips (1 ms., 1 typescript) identifying the work laid in. The typescript slip also includes provenance information ("Gift of Dr. Cyrus Adler").
   

Watermark

Crown-star-crescent.

Extent

I, 269, i leaves : 202-207 x 144-147 mm bound to 208 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 269 + i; 4-266, [267-272]; Coptic foliation in black and red ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner. Foliation in Arabic numerals added in pencil, upper left recto [1-296]

Support

Paper

Binding

Full brown leather with fore-edge flap and envelope flap (Type II); boards and envelope flap tooled in blind; white paper spine label with typed shelf mark.

Layout

Written in 14 lines per page in black and red ink with occasional marginalia; folios 4-266 ruled in blind; folios [267-269] frame-ruled in blind.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in upright naskh in black and red ink; pointed and partially vocalized. Folios [267-269] in a later hand.

Provenance

• Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate with 2 ms. shelf marks,1 in ink, 1 in pencil, back free endpaper) by Dr. Cyrus Adler (typescript note on paper slip laid in).
   

Subjects topical

• Gautama Buddha--Legends
• Gautama Buddha--Christian interpretations
• Christian legends--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Barlām wa-Yawāṣaf

Decorations

• fol. 268v — Doodles
• fol. 268v — Notations in ink