Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate front flyleaf recto).
Publisher:
[between 1750 and 1800?].
Relation:
Bible.; Epistles of Paul.; Selections.; Arabic.; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms175.html
i, 196 leaves : paper; 330 x 232 (250 x 165) bound to 335 x 235 mm
Personal Name:
Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.; Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, associated name.; John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. Homilies. Selections. Arabic.
Corporate Name:
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Notes:
Binding: Damaged brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); repaired with printed material.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.; A quire of 8 leaves containing a title page, table of contents and the first part of the first homily of John Chrysostom is inserted at the beginning; likely misplaced from CAJS Rar Ms 176 which contains the rest of that text (with the missing beginning recopied on later paper in a different hand). The inserted leaves also contain the signature of the same owner, Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī, next to the header for the first homily, where it appears in the rest of the homilies in CAJS Rar Ms 176.; Ms. codex.; Decoration: Rubrications in red. Sets of four dots occasionally appear throughout.; Title from introduction (f. 9r).; Foliation: Paper, i + 196; 1-82, i, 83-196; modern script foliation in pencil, upper center recto; Coptic foliation, upper left recto; catchwords on versos, lower left corner.; Layout: Written in 15 long lines.; Origin: The item is undated, perhaps produced in the second half of the 18th century.; Arabic.
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