Details

Subject(s)

• Bible Epistles of Paul—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Associated name

• Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf [Browse]

Related name

• رشيدي، ابراهيم بن يوسف [Browse]

Donor

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Former owner

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Contains

John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. Homilies. Selections. Arabic. [Browse]

Summary note

Letters of Saint Paul with commentary; ends abruptly.

Notes

• A quire of 8 leaves containing a title page, table of contents and the first part of the first homily of John Chrysostom is inserted at the beginning; likely misplaced from CAJS Rar Ms 176 which contains the rest of that text (with the missing beginning recopied on later paper in a different hand). The inserted leaves also contain the signature of the same owner, Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī, next to the header for the first homily, where it appears in the rest of the homilies in CAJS Rar Ms 176.
• Binding: Damaged brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); repaired with printed material.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red. Sets of four dots occasionally appear throughout.
• Foliation: Paper, i + 196; 1-82, i, 83-196; modern script foliation in pencil, upper center recto; Coptic foliation, upper left recto; catchwords on versos, lower left corner.
• Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The item is undated, perhaps produced in the second half of the 18th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
• Title from introduction (f. 9r).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Location of other archival materials

CAJS Rar Ms 176 comprises the rest of the manuscript of which the first 8 leaves of this manuscript are a part.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate front flyleaf recto).

Source acquisition

Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate front flyleaf recto).

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 175.

Other title(s)

• Muqaddimat Rasāʼil Būlus
• مقدمة رسائل بولس
• Bible. Epistles of Paul. Selections. Arabic.

Commonly referred to as

• Introduction to the Pauline Epistles

OCLC

1150883880

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