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Title

Muṣḥaf jalīl fīhi ....
مصحف جليل فيه

Authors

• Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)

Other related names

• Thūmā, al-Rāhib, active 950, scribe
  ثوما،
• Mettler, Arnold J, former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, donor
• Parke-Bernet Galleries, auctioneer

Call number

BV 69
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135058958
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_069.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

950?

Place

Sinai, Egypt

Summary

Incomplete copy of a collection of homilies and saints' and martyrs' lives. This manuscript is part of a now-dispersed manuscript written at Mt. Sinai. The table of contents (f. 3v-4r) lists 22 works, but only portions of the first and fourth are present in this manuscript. A set of 8 leaves on paper (170 x 160 mm) have been added in a later hand and include the incomplete story of the martyrdoms of Anbā Qūris, Yuḥannā, the three virgins and their mother.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r)
   

Extent

52 leaves : 212 x 170 (170 x 120) mm bound to 215 x 175 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, lower gutter margin recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bound in brown leather over wood with nails.

Layout

Written in 15-17 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in New Style in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Howard Lehman Goodhart in 1949.
   
• Sold by Ludwig Rosenthal in Munich in 1913.
   
• Sold by K. Hiersemann in Leipzig in 1922, lot number 15, listed as Heiligenlegenden at 90,000 DM (label inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Anrold J. Mettler as part of the Arnold Mettler-Specker Collection (bookplate inside back cover) on loan to the Zurich Zentralbibliothek under the designation Or. 74.
   
• Sold at the Parke-Bernet Galleries sale held on 29-30 November 1948, catalog entry number 302 (clipping pasted onto inside front cover with note in pencil inside back cover).
   
• Purchased by Howard Lehman Goodhart (bookplate inside back cover) in 1948 and listed as MS 95 in his book of purchases.
   

Subjects topical

• Christianity
• Saints--Legends
• Martyrs--Legends
• Martyrologies--Early works to 1800
• Christian literature, Arabic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 10th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Two unidentified leaves
• fol. 3v — Table of contents
• fol. 5r — Maymar qālahu Yuḥannā ibn Zabadī ʻalá niyāḥat MartMaryam al-Sayyidah
• fol. 42r — Shahādat Anbā Qūris wa-Yūḥannā

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry, 302, pasted in
• Inside front cover — German sale card pasted in
• fol. 3r — Title and notations
• fol. 4v — Notations
• fol. 41r — Notations
• fol. 41v — Notations
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "Arnold Mettler Specker"
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "Howard Lehman Goodhart"
• Inside back cover — Notations of sale