Details

Scribe

• Yaʻqūb ibn Abī al-Faraḥ [Browse]

Related name

• يعقوب بن ابي الفرح [Browse]

Donor

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Former owner

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

Epistles of Paul with an introduction and an outline of their contents by the beadle Yaʻqūb ibn Abī al-Faraḥ who is probably also the copyist. There is also a detailed index at the end of the book.

Notes

• Binding: Binding: Full brown blind-tooled leather; manuscript paper used as binder's waste at beginning and end of volume; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Spine damaged at head and tail; boards worn, especially at edges; cuts in upper board; boards and a few leaves at beginning and end of volume detached from textblock.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red. Diagram in black and red ink (f. 31); a few leaves have decorative elements in black and red ink.
• Foliation: Paper, 194; [i], 5-7, 12-190, 192-199, 201-202, [203]; Coptic foliation in black and red ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner.
• Folios 1-4, 8-11, 191, 200, and one or two leaves at the end are wanting. Folio [i] torn vertically across lower portion of leaf; f. 160 torn and mended at tail margin; a few ink smudges in text.
• Layout: Written in 15 lines per page, plus headline, in black and red ink with marginalia. One line added at foot of f. 114r; 2 lines added at foot of f. 141r.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Item is undated, probably eighteenth century. An owner's note is dated 1241 (1826) (f. [i]).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; partly vocalized.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with 2 manuscript shelf marks, 1 in pencil, 1 in ink, front pastedown).

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 172.

OCLC

276878212

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