Kitāb al-salāmāt.; Salāmāt.

Abstract:

Prayers and invocations to the Blessed Virgin, Angels, Saints and Martyrs to be recited on special occasions.

Date:

1745

Identifier:

9944235803503681; (OCoLC)276879961; (OCoLC)ocn276879961

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown).

Publisher:

[Egypt?], 1745.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms181.html

Subject:

Liturgics.; Prayers and devotions.; Prayers (literary works); Codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Arabic -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

171 leaves : paper, illustrations; 162 x 106 mm bound to 168 x 118 mm

Personal Name:

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.

Corporate Name:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Copy has ms. inscription in Arabic script and drawing on verso of last endleaf; ms. inscription in Arabic script (f. [iv] verso); a few leaves have ms. annotations. All leaves before f. 4 and all after f. 174 wanting. Many leaves have bottom outer corners damaged or torn off; f. 45 torn vertically across lower half of leaf; f. 80 cut off at head margin without loss of text; f. 155 torn at outer margin; some leaves at end stained at outer margin.; Decoration: Rubrications in red. 16 full page ink drawings, some colored: Virgin Mary and Christ Child (f. 34v); Angel Mīkhāʼīl (f. [65]v); Angel Ghabriyāl (f. 73v); Angel Rāfāʼīl (f. 79v); Angel Sūriyāl (f. 83v); the four incorporeal beasts (f. 86v); Yūḥannā al-Maʻmadān (f. 97v); Buṭrus, rāʼis al-rusul (f. 101v); al-Qiddīs Mār Jirjis (f. 111v); al-Qiddīs Anṭūniyūs (f. 115v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bawlā al-Sāʼiḥ̣ (f. 133v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Maqār (f. 136v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bīshuwī (f. 141v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Mūsá al-Aswad (f. 156v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bakhūm (f. 162v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Shanūdah (f. 166v). Some leaves have simple decorative elements in black and red ink.; Binding: Full brown leather; upper board tooled in blind; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Upper board detached; lower board mutilated with severe worming; spine damaged.; Title from colophon (f. 171r).; Foliation: Paper, 171 + iii; 4-67, [68], 69-92, 94, [iv], 96-97, 100-174; Coptic foliation in black and red ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner.; Layout: Written in 9-10 lines per page in black and red ink; text frame-ruled in blind.; Script: Written in a bold naskh in black and red ink; pointed, partially vocalized.; Origin: Copied in the year 1461 of the Blessed Martyrs = 1745 C.E.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

CAJS Rar Ms 181