Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Hiersemann, Karl Wilhelm, 1854-1924 [Browse]
• Mettler-Specker, Arnold, 1867-1945 [Browse]

Bookseller

• H.P. Kraus (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Scheide M 141 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Canon tables [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Greek—11th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—11th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]
• initials (layout features) [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from printed catalog.
• Collation: Paper ; fols. 72 ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 11-15 long lines per page ; Greek text with Arabic translation in parallel columns.
• Description: Written by one scribe in black ink ; titles and initials in red ; the Arabic text was probably written by two different but contemporary hands in black, with titles in red ink.
• Decoration: decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for monks (fol. 38r); decorated headpiece for the funeral canon for women (fol. 52r).
• Origin: Probably written in Egypt or the Holy Land in the 11th or 12th century.

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboard; unsupported link stitch.

Language note

Greek and Arabic.

Provenance

Sold in 1922 by Leipzig-based antiquarian, book seller, and publisher Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1924) to the collector Arnold Mettler-Specker (1867-1945) and deposited for a while in the University Library of Zurich under the shelfmark Or. 85. Purchased by H.P. Kraus in 1948 at auction from Sotheby's & Co. Since some manuscripts of Katalog Hiersemann 500 demonstrably came from the collection of the German collector Friedrich Grote (1861-1922), it is highly likely that this manuscript comes from this source as well, which means that it is again highly likely that it originally hailed from St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt. --Via Peter Tarras.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

54747637

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