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

Title

al-Ibṣalmudīyah.
الابصلمدية

Authors

• Coptic Church

Other related names

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

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 196
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977791349603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1184766513
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms196.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Coptic with some headings and words in Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 to 1850?

Place

Egypt

Summary

Selections from the Psalmodia in Coptic; numerous illuminations and illustrations.

Notes

• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

153, ii leaves : 214 x 150 (150 x 100) mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Disbound; quires still connected at two sewing stations; held in a red paper folder.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines.

Decoration

Numerous headpieces and decorated initial letters, chiefly red and yellow; numerous birds and other animals in the margins, primarily yellow with red and green; rubrications in red; several illustrations in red and yellow: angel (f. 10r); circular diagram (f. 75r); Dāwūd al-Nabī (f. 98v); Virgin and child (f. 118r).

Script

Written in Coptic in black ink; some Arabic in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Cyrus Adler to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, last leaf verso).
   
• Formerly owned Cyrus Adler (note on bookplate last leaf verso).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate last leaf verso).
   

Subjects topical

• Coptic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Coptic Church--Hymns--Texts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Coptic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Prayers
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — al-Ibṣalmudīyah.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 10r — Illustration: Angel
• fol. 10v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 10v — Animals
• fol. 13v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 13v — Animals
• fol. 15v — Illuminations
• fol. 17r — Iluminations
• fol. 18r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 18r — Animals
• fol. 22r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 22r — Illuminated bird
• fol. 23v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 23v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 23v — Animals
• fol. 24r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 25v — Illuminations
• fol. 25v — Birds
• fol. 26v — Birds
• fol. 27r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 27r — Animals
• fol. 30r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 30r — Birds
• fol. 33v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 33v — Birds
• fol. 34r — Illuminated cross
• fol. 34v — Birds
• fol. 41r — Birds
• fol. 41v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 41v — Birds
• fol. 43v — Iluminated cross
• fol. 44r — Illuminated cross
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 46r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 46r — Birds
• fol. 46r — Animals
• fol. 47v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 47v — Birds
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 49r — Birds
• fol. 49v — Birds
• fol. 53v — Illuminated cross
• fol. 54r — Illuminated cross
• fol. 54v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 54v — Birds
• fol. 56v — Birds
• fol. 57r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 57r — Birds
• fol. 57r — Animals
• fol. 60v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 60v — Birds
• fol. 63v — Illuminated cross
• fol. 64r — Illuminated cross
• fol. 64v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 70v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 72r — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 72r — Birds
• fol. 73v — Illumination
• fol. 74r — Illumination
• fol. 75r — Diagram
• fol. 75v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 76v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 77v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 80v — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 83v — Illumination
• fol. 84r — Illumination
• fol. 85r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 86r — Illumination
• fol. 89v — Birds
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 93v — Illumination
• fol. 94r — Illumination
• fol. 97r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 98v — Illustration: Prophet David
• fol. 99r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 99r — Birds
• fol. 99r — Animals
• fol. 103v — Illumination
• fol. 104r — Illumination
• fol. 108r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 110v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 110v — Birds
• fol. 116r — Illumination
• fol. 118r — Illustration: Virgin and Child
• fol. 118v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 118v — Birds
• fol. 123v — Illumination
• fol. 125r — Illumination
• fol. 126v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 126v — Birds
• fol. 133r — Illuminated initial letter
• fol. 133v — Illumination
• fol. 134r — Illumination
• fol. 135r — Illuminated surround
• fol. 135r — Animals
• fol. 138v — Illumination
• fol. 143v — Illumination
• fol. 144r — Illuminations
• fol. 146r — Illumination
• fol. 147v — Illuminated surround
• fol. 147v — Animals