Details

Former owner

• Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 [Browse]

Related name

• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College). [Browse]

Summary note

The four Gospels, text of the first Gospel begins abruptly with Matthew 2:21. Copy is laid out in parallel columns of Syriac (left) and Arabic Garshuni (right). Includes rubrics for liturgical readings and a table of contents in the order of the liturgical year (f. 1r-2v). This copy was made from a manuscript dated 1209 (f. 424v). Ink bleed through on many pages.

Notes

• Binding: Brown leather over wood; leather raised bands over spine; endbands in white, red, yellow; nail protruding from fore-edge of top board.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red; one text division marker in black lines with red and black circles (f. 207r) and one illuminated heading (f. 330v); small decorations in red and black in the bottom margin, approximately every 6 leaves.
• Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.
• Fragments of a letter in Arabic (dated 1804) and a liturgical text inserted at the end.
• Layout: 20 lines in two columns.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed at St. Chalita Monastery, Ajaltoun, Lebanon (f. 424v)
• Script: Written in Syriac; Serto and Arabic Garshuni.
• Syriac cataloging assistance provided by Joshua Mugler.
• Title from colophon (f. 424v).

Location of originals

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

Language note

Syriac (

Script

Serto) and Arabic Garshuni.

Cite as

Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections manuscripts RH 33

Place name(s)

Lebanon Ajaltoun

Other title(s)

Bible. Gospels. Arabic. 1638.

OCLC

1114306167

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