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

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

سمنودي، يحنا، 13th century.

ابن كاتب قيصر، ابراهيم بن صفي الدولة، active 13th century.

ابن العسال، الاسعد ابو الفرج هبة الله، active 13th century.

قليوبي، الوجيه يحنا، active 13th century.،

ابن الدهيري، الثقة، active 13th century.

ابن كبر، ابو البركات بن الاسعد، -approximately 1363.

Language:

Arabic

Coptic

Subjects (All):

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.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, Coptic.

Manuscripts, 19th century.

codices (bound manuscripts)

dictionaries

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

Physical Description:

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

Production:

[Egypt], 1270 A.H. (1854)

Other Title:

Muqaddimat al-sullam

Sullam al-muqaffá wa-al-dhahab al-muṣaffá

مقدمة السلم

سلم المقفى والذهب المصفى

Language Note:

Arabic and Coptic.

Summary:

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.

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]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

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).

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 200.

Contains:

Samannūdī, Yuḥannā, 13th century. Muqaddimat al-Sullam.

Ibn Kātib Qayṣar, Ibrāhīm ibn Ṣafī al-Dawlah, active 13th century. Tabṣirah.

Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Asʻad Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh, active 13th century. Muqaddimat al-Sullam.

Qalyūbī, Al-Wajīh Yuḥannā, active 13th century. Kifāyah.

Ibn al-Duhayrī, al-Thiqah, active 13th century. Muqaddimah.

Ibn Kubr, Abū al-Barakāt ibn al-Asʻad, -approximately 1363. Sullam al-kabir.

سمنودي، يحنا، 13th century. مقدمة السلم.

ابن كاتب قيصر، ابراهيم بن صفي الدولة، active 13th century. تبصرة.

ابن العسال، الاسعد ابو الفرج هبة الله، active 13th century. مقدمة السلم

قليوبي، الوجيه يحنا، active 13th century.، كفاية.

ابن الدهيري، الثقة، active 13th century. مقدمة.

ابن كبر، ابو البركات بن الاسعد، -approximately 1363. سلم الكبير.

OCLC:

1237757928