Kitāb madāʼiḥ yataḍammanu madāʼiḥ li-shahr Kīhak wa-al-aʻyād al-sayyidīyah kibār wa-ṣighār wa-madāʼiḥ al-arbaʻīn al-muqaddasah wa-al-ṣalīb.; Madāʼiḥ.

Abstract:

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.

Timespan:

Egypt.

Date:

1700

Identifier:

9944235783503681; (OCoLC)276880216; (OCoLC)ocn276880216

Language:

Arabic; Coptic

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).\; Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (note f. 163r).

Publisher:

[Egypt?], [between 1700 and 1850?]

Relation:

Madāʼiḥ li-shahr Kīhak.; Madāʼiḥ al-arbaʻīn al-muqaddasah wa-al-ṣalīb.; Madāʼiḥ al-aʻyād al-sayyidīyah kibār wa-ṣighār.; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms180.html

Subject:

Christian poetry, Arabic.; Fasts and feasts -- Coptic Church.; Devotional calendars -- Coptic Church.; Christian poetry, Arabic -- Egypt -- Early works to 1800.; Liturgics.; Prayers and devotions.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 19th century.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Arabic -- 18th century.; Early works.

Physical Description:

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

Personal Name:

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

Corporate Name:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; 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.; Origin: Item is undated, but probably copied in the 18th or first half of the 19th century. Likely produced in Egypt.; 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.; 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.; 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.; 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.; Layout: Written in 13 to 15 lines per page in black and red ink; text frame-ruled in blind.; Arabic with some Coptic.

Physical Location:

CAJS Rar Ms 180