Kitāb madāʼiḥ yataḍammanu madāʼiḥ li-shahr Kīhak wa-al-aʻyād al-sayyidīyah kibār wa-ṣighār wa-madāʼiḥ al-arbaʻīn al-muqaddasah wa-al-ṣalīb; كتاب مدائح يتضمن مدائح لشهر كيهك والاعياد السيدية كبار وصغار ومدائح الأربعين المقدسة والصليب

Alternate Title:

Madāʼiḥ.

Name:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1700

Description:

Collection of hymns used in the Coptic Church for the month of Kīhak and for the seven major and minor feasts and for Lent. 77 hymns in all.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (note f. 163r).; Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown).\; Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.; Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms180.html

Subject:

Coptic Church; Christian poetry, Arabic; Prayers and devotions; Coptic Church -- Liturgy; Liturgics; Coptic Church -- Prayers and devotions; Fasts and feasts -- Coptic Church; Devotional calendars -- Coptic Church; Christian poetry, Arabic -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts)

Physical Description:

173 leaves : paper; 162-166 x 118-121 mm, bound to 172 x 150 mm

Geographic Subject:

Egypt

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from introduction (f. 2r).; Foliation: Paper, 173; 1-159, [i], 160-172; modern Roman script foliation in pencil, upper center recto. Catchwords on versos, lower center or lower left corner.; Layout: Written in 13 to 15 lines per page in black and red ink; text frame-ruled in blind.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink, pointed, with two punctuation signs, a colon (:) and two slanting parallel lines (//). Folios 156-159, [i], 160-172, in a different hand, are more recent.; Decoration: decorative opening in black and red ink (f. 1r); a few leaves at beginning of volume have simple decorative elements in black and red ink.; Binding: Full dark leather with fore-edge flap and envelope flap; boards and flaps tooled in blind; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Spine and tail of upper board repaired with red leather; spine and lower board partially detached from textblock; some wormholes in spine and a few in boards and flaps.; Origin: Item is undated, but probably copied in the 18th or first half of the 19th century. Likely produced in Egypt.; Copy has ms. marks in ink and blue pencil on pastedowns and first leaf; a few ms. marginal marks and annotations in text; occasional ink smudges and blots and wax drips on leaves. Four small modern ms. leaves identifying hymns laid in.; Arabic with some Coptic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 180