[Martyrology of Coptic Saints].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, donor.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

Coptic Christian saints--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Christian martyrs.

Martyrologies.

Coptic Christian saints.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Presented to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning by Dr. Cyrus Adler (bookplate with 2 ms. shelf marks, 1 in pencil, 1 in ink, front pastedown).

Physical Description:

30 leaves : paper ; 161 x 110 mm bound to 162 x 110 mm

Place of Publication:

[between 1650 and 1799?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Abridged martyrology of Coptic Saints, arranged according to months and days. The terms used in connection with the death of the saints are either "shahādah" or "niyāḥah."

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 30; 1-3¹⁰; 1-29, [30]; modern Roman script foliation in pencil, upper right verso. Catchwords on versos, lower left corner.

Layout: 12 long lines.

Script: Written in an upright, wide naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Binding: Bound in contemporary full blind-tooled black leather; white paper label with typed shelf-mark on spine. Spine largely wanting (25 mm. remains at head, detached from textblock); upper board mutilated with severe worming and detached from textblock; lower board wormed and partly detached from textblock.

Decoration: Titles in larger thuluth script. Some small crosses appear within the text.

Condition: Without title leaf. Pastedowns wormed; many leaves wormed at inner margin and detached from spine; a few wormholes with occasional minor damage to text (f. 1-11); a few leaves stained at fore-edge (f. 2-3, 26-29); occasional staining at inner margins of leaves, particularly at tail; inkblot in tail margin (f. 9r).

Watermark: Three crescent moons; large letter C.

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 182.

OCLC:

276880227