Kitāb al-salāmāt.
كتاب السلامات.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

• Coptic Church.
• Prayers and devotions.
• Liturgics.
• Coptic Church--Liturgy--Texts.
• Coptic Church--Prayers and devotions.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• prayers (compositions)

Penn 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).

Physical Description:

171 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 162 x 106 mm bound to 168 x 118 mm

Production:

[Egypt?], 1745.

Other Title:

• Salāmāt.
• سلامات.

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Prayers and invocations to the Blessed Virgin, Angels, Saints and Martyrs to be recited on special occasions.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (f. 171r).
• Foliation: Paper, 171 + iii; 4-67, [68], 69-92, 94, [iv], 96-97, 100-174; Coptic foliation in black and red ink, upper left recto. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner.
• Layout: Written in 9-10 lines per page in black and red ink; text frame-ruled in blind.
• Script: Written in a bold naskh in black and red ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red. 16 full page ink drawings, some colored: Virgin Mary and Christ Child (f. 34v); Angel Mīkhāʼīl (f. [65]v); Angel Ghabriyāl (f. 73v); Angel Rāfāʼīl (f. 79v); Angel Sūriyāl (f. 83v); the four incorporeal beasts (f. 86v); Yūḥannā al-Maʻmadān (f. 97v); Buṭrus, rāʼis al-rusul (f. 101v); al-Qiddīs Mār Jirjis (f. 111v); al-Qiddīs Anṭūniyūs (f. 115v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bawlā al-Sāʼiḥ̣ (f. 133v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Maqār (f. 136v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bīshuwī (f. 141v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Mūsá al-Aswad (f. 156v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Bakhūm (f. 162v); al-Qiddīs Anbā Shanūdah (f. 166v). Some leaves have simple decorative elements in black and red ink.
• Binding: Full brown leather; upper board tooled in blind; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Upper board detached; lower board mutilated with severe worming; spine damaged.
• Origin: Copied in the year 1461 of the Blessed Martyrs = 1745 C.E.
• Copy has ms. inscription in Arabic script and drawing on verso of last endleaf; ms. inscription in Arabic script (f. [iv] verso); a few leaves have ms. annotations. All leaves before f. 4 and all after f. 174 wanting. Many leaves have bottom outer corners damaged or torn off; f. 45 torn vertically across lower half of leaf; f. 80 cut off at head margin without loss of text; f. 155 torn at outer margin; some leaves at end stained at outer margin.

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 181.

OCLC:

276879961