Muqaddimat al-sullam al-maʻrūf. Kitāb Sullam al-muqaffá wa-al-dhahab al-muṣaffá; مقدمة السلم المعروف. كتاب سلم المقفى والذهب المصفى

Alternate Title:

Muqaddimat al-sullam; Sullam al-muqaffá wa-al-dhahab al-muṣaffá

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1854

Description:

Collection of introductions to Coptic grammar and lexicography explained in Arabic followed by a dictionary of Coptic-Arabic terminology. The dictionary ends in the middle of Book 10, chapter 3; it is therefore missing a few leaves at the end. The copy of Sullam al-muqaffá wa-al-dhahab al-muṣaffá referenced on the title page is not contained in the item itself.

Language:

Arabic; Coptic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.; Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms200.html

Subject:

Coptic language; Lexicography; Coptic language -- Grammar; Coptic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800; Coptic language -- Dictionaries -- Arabic -- Early works to 1800; Coptic language -- Lexicography -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, Coptic; Manuscripts, 19th century; codices (bound manuscripts); dictionaries

Physical Description:

95 leaves : paper; 300 x 230 (240 x 163) bound to 300 x 230 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f. [2]r-[10]v: Muqaddimat al-Sullam -- 2. f. [11]r-[18]r: al-Tabṣirah -- 2. f. [18]r-[24]r: Muqaddimah allatī waḍaʻahā al-Shaykh al-Asʻad Abū al-Faraj Ibn al-ʻAssāl -- 3. [24]v-[32]v: Muqaddimah al-mawsūmah bi-al-Kifāyah -- 4. [33]r-[45]r: Muqaddimat Ibn al-Duhayrī -- 5. [45]v-[93]v: [al-Sullam al-kabīr]-- 6. [94]r-[95]v: [Notations]; Title from title page (f. 2r); Unfoliated.; Layout: Written in 26-27 lines in two columns, each column contains both Arabic and Coptic; pages and columns read left to right.; Script: Arabic written in naskh in black and red ink; pointed. Coptic in red and black ink.; Decoration: Polychrome cross (f. 1v), polychrome headpiece (f. 2r); rubrications in red; small flowers in yellow throughout the text.; Binding: Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II).; Origin: Completed on 21 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1270 A.H. (15 August 1854).; Arabic and Coptic.; Related Work: Samannūdī, Yuḥannā, 13th century. Muqaddimat al-Sullam.; Related Work: Ibn Kātib Qayṣar, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣafī al-Dawlah, active 13th century. Tabṣirah.; Related Work: Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Asʻad Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh, active 13th century. Muqaddimat al-Sullam.; Related Work: Qalyūbī, Al-Wajīh Yuḥannā, active 13th century. Kifāyah.; Related Work: Ibn al-Duhayrī, al-Thiqah, active 13th century. Muqaddimah.; Related Work: Ibn Kubr, Abū al-Barakāt ibn al-Asʻad, -approximately 1363. Sullam al-kabir.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 200