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al-Kitāb al-musammá bi-al-Durr al-muntakhab li-Yūḥannā al-Dhahabī.
الكتاب المسمى بالدر المنتخب ليوحنا الذهبي.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 176
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. Arabic.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Sermons, Greek.
- Preaching--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Preaching.
- History.
- Sermons, Greek--Translations into Arabic.
- Sermons, Early Christian.
- Preaching--Early church.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- History.
- Penn 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).
- Physical Description:
- 181 leaves : paper ; 306 x 215 (245 x 155) bound to 320 x 220 mm
- Production:
- [Egypt?], 1784.
- Other Title:
- Durr al-muntakhab.
- Title from colophon: Maqālāt Yūḥannā Fam al-Dhahab.
- در المنتخب.
- Title from colophon: مقالات يوحنا فم الذهب.
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Thirty-four homilies of John Chrysostom. Several replacement pages at the beginning of the work.
- 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.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 176
- OCLC:
- 276879867
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