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al-Muṣḥaf al-sharīf.

Abstract:
Copy of the second half of the Old Testament starting with Kitāb nubūwat Ishaʻyāʼ al-nabī (Isaiah).
Date:
1776
Identifier:
9977642240603681; (OCoLC)1131863848; (OCoLC)on1131863848
Language:
Arabic; Coptic
Provenance:
Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).; Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (note in ink, f. 226v).
Publisher:
[Egypt], [publisher not identified], A.H. 1190 (1776)
Relation:
Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms167.html
Subject:
Manuscripts, Arabic.; Doodles.; Manuscripts, 18th century.; Bibles.; Annotations (Provenance)
Resource Type:
Manuscripts
Physical Description:
228 leaves : paper, illustrations; 305 x 220 (235 x 140) mm bound to 302 x 220 mm
Personal Name:
Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner.; Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, former owner.
Corporate Name:
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?
Notes:
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left.; Watermark: Trelune; Title from colophon (f. 226v).; Origin: The copy was completed on 18 Bābah, corresponding to Dhū al-Qaʻdah in the year 1190 A.H. (1776) by Mūsá, Khādim al-Sitt al-Sayyidah in Ḥārat al-Zuwaylah [Cairo] (f. 226v).; Layout: Written in 21 long lines.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.; Decoration: Rubrications in red; some small flower shapes in red; finispiece with birds in black (f. 226v); four pages of drawings and notes (f. 227r-inside back cover).; Binding: Bound in brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); faint blind-stamped central mandorla with four pendants, one on each side and frame; red leather spine and corners; horizontal bands along spine.; Several full page doodles of people with swords (f. 227r-228v; inside back cover).; Arabic with a few words in Coptic.
Physical Location:
CAJS Rar Ms 167