Details

Patron

• Yaʻqūb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1760 [Browse]
• يعقوب بن ابراهيم، active 1760، [Browse]

Former owner

• Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf [Browse]
• رشيدي، ابراهيم بن يوسف، [Browse]
• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 [Browse]
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of the Pentateuch and Historical Books (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles).

Notes

• Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); faint blind stamped central mandorla on covers with inlay mandorla on flap; plain paper doublure.
• Decoration: Headpieces in red, yellow and black with occasional green (f. 1r, 43r, 76r, 100r, 131v, 159r, 180r, 200r, 203r, 230v, 252v, 277v, 301r, 323r); rubrications in red; some small ornaments in red.
• Foliation: Coptic numeral foliation, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Foliation in Arabic numerals added in pencil, upper left recto. References in the record are to the Arabic foliation.
• Layout: Written in 22 long lines.
• Origin: Copy completed on 14 Baūnah in 1476 of the Coptic Calender (June 1760 CE) for Yaʻqūb ibn Ibrāhīm, in Asyūṭ (f. 349v).
• Owner's notations on the flyleaves and next to every colophon.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Title from colophon (f. 158v, 349v).
• Watermarks: Three crescent moons; anchor.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (numerous notations and signatures, see f. 42v, 99v, for example).
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Source acquisition

Gift of Cyrus Adler to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 166.

OCLC

1150883192

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