al-Muṣḥaf al-Muqaddas; المصحف المقدس

Contributor:

Yaʻqūb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1760 (patron); Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Date:

1760

Description:

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

Language:

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).; Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, former owner.; Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms166.html

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 17th century; Bibles; codices (bound manuscripts); illuminations (paintings); Annotations (Provenance); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

ii, 349, ii leaves : paper, illuminations; 300 x 205 (220 x 135) mm bound to 295 x 205 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 158v, 349v).; 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.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.; 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.; 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.; Origin: Copy completed on 14 Baūnah in 1476 of the Coptic Calender (June 1760 CE) for Yaʻqūb ibn Ibrāhīm, in Asyūṭ (f. 349v).; Watermarks: Three crescent moons; anchor.; Owner's notations on the flyleaves and next to every colophon.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 166