Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Coptic-Arabic glossary.

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 396
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14012766
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107323952
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_396.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14012766

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic and Coptic

Origin

Date

between 14--? and15--?

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Glossary of Coptic vocabulary taken primarily from the New Testament, but also including the Psalms, defined in Arabic. Begins with a prayer, followed by pages of vocabulary words in two columns and labeled with headings. The corners of the leaves have been rounded.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

97 leaves : 178 x 130 (120 x 85) mm, bound to 205 x 142 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Text is unbound, though the leaves are sewn together in quires of 10 and held in a later folder of red textile over pulpboard with stamped central mandorla, cornerpieces, and frame.

Layout

15 lines per page in two columns.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; simple finispiece of geometric pattern in black (f. 95v).

Script

Written in Coptic and naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Coptic language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Arabic--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Coptic manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts (documents)
• Gatherings (gathered matter components)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Coptic-Arabic glossary].

Decorations

• fol. 95v — Finispiece