al-Kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Durr al-muntakhab li-Yūḥannā al-Dhahabī; الكتاب المسمى بالدر المنتخب ليوحنا الذهبي

Alternate Title:

Durr al-muntakhab.; Maqālāt Yūḥannā Fam al-Dhahab.

Name:

John Chrysostom, Saint, -407

Timespan:

Early church, ca. 30-600; 30-600

Date:

1784

Description:

Thirty-four homilies of John Chrysostom. Several replacement pages at the beginning of the work.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (autograph, f. 183v and opposite title of each homily).; Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with ms. shelf mark, front pastedown; bookplate with ms. shelf mark, back pastedown).; Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.; Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, former owner.; Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms176.html

Subject:

Sermons, Greek; Preaching -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Preaching; History; Sermons, Greek -- Translations into Arabic; Sermons, Early Christian; Preaching -- Early church

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 18th century; codices (bound manuscripts)

Physical Description:

181 leaves : paper; 306 x 215 (245 x 155) bound to 320 x 220 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from introduction (f. 3r).; Foliation: Paper, ii + 182 + i; 1-2 (endleaves), 3-183, 184 (endleaf); modern script foliation in pencil, upper center recto; Coptic foliation, upper left recto (f. 6-37, 40-183). Folios 3, 5-182 have catchwords on versos, lower center or lower left corner.; Layout: Written in 20-30 lines per page and occasional marginalia; folios 3-4, 38-39 frame-ruled in lead with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines.; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed. Folios 1-3 and 36-37 are in a later hand which is not as clear as the first.; Decoration: Rubrications in red. Some small decorations such as a cross adjacent the colophon and sets of four dots occasionally in the upper outer corner.; Binding: One-half green leather over marbled boards; white paper spine label with typed shelf mark.; Origin: Completed on Thursday the 15th of the month of Tubeh in the year 1501 of the holy martyrs (= 1784 CE) corresponding to the 28th of the month of Ṣafar 1198 hijrī (f. 183v).; Copy has ms. shelf mark in pencil on back pastedown; ms. inscriptions in Arabic script on front pastedown, recto of front free endpaper, and recto and verso of back free endpaper; ms. inscription in Arabic at foot of f. 183v; a few ms. marginal annotations. Folio 37 torn off at bottom outer corner without loss of text; f. 41r damaged across central portion with some loss of text. Eight modern paper slips with ms. notes in Arabic script in pencil laid in.; Arabic.; Related Work: John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. Homilies.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 176