Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Miscellanea—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Coleman, George Dawson, active 20th century [Browse]

Related name

• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

Incomplete copy of the Gospels, beginning in chapter 44 of Mark and ending in the second chapter of Luke, and notated with divisions for reading on specific days; followed by leaves of a question and answer book about Arabic grammar copied in a different hand. The leaves for this second work have been remargined and inset into larger frames so that the two works could be bound together.

Notes

• Binding: Rebound in Western style green leather with gold tooled design; horizontal bands on the spine which is stamped "Hindoo Mss."
• Decoration: Rubrications in red; second text border-ruled in double red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added, top left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: Written in 19 long lines; second text written in 12-15 lines; border-ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Neither work is dated; possibly 17th or 18th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Second work written in naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Other title(s)

• Hindo Mss
• Questions and answers about Arabic grammar.

OCLC

1141198735

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