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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.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 180
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Coptic
- Subjects (All):
- Coptic Church.
- Christian poetry, Arabic.
- Prayers and devotions.
- Egypt.
- Coptic Church--Liturgy.
- Liturgics.
- Coptic Church--Prayers and devotions.
- Fasts and feasts--Coptic Church.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Devotional calendars--Coptic Church.
- Devotional calendars.
- Christian poetry, Arabic--Egypt--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Early works.
- Penn 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).\
- Physical Description:
- 173 leaves : paper ; 162-166 x 118-121 mm, bound to 172 x 150 mm
- Other Title:
- Madāʼiḥ.
- مدائح.
- مدائح لشهر كيهك.
- مدائح الاعياد السيدية كبار وصغار.
- مدائح الاربعين المقدسة والصليب.
- Place of Publication:
- [Egypt?], [between 1700 and 1850?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic with some Coptic.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 180.
- Contains:
- Madāʼiḥ li-shahr Kīhak.
- Madāʼiḥ al-aʻyād al-sayyidīyah kibār wa-ṣighār.
- Madāʼiḥ al-arbaʻīn al-muqaddasah wa-al-ṣalīb.
- مدائح لشهر كيهك.
- مدائح الاعياد السيدية كبار وصغار.
- مدائح الاربعين المقدسة والصليب.
- OCLC:
- 276880216
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