al-Muṣḥaf al-sharīf.
المصحف الشريف.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Rashīdī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, former owner.

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940, former owner.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

رشيدي، ابراهيم بن يوسف،, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Bible. Old Testament. Selections. Arabic.

Language:

Arabic

Coptic

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 18th century.

Bibles

doodles

Annotations (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī (note in ink, f. 226v).

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Physical Description:

228 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 305 x 220 (235 x 140) mm bound to 302 x 220 mm

Place of Publication:

[Egypt], [publisher not identified], A.H. 1190 (1776)

Language Note:

Arabic with a few words in Coptic.

Summary:

Copy of the second half of the Old Testament starting with Kitāb nubūwat Ishaʻyāʼ al-nabī (Isaiah).

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 226v).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto; catchwords every verso lower left.

Layout: Written in 21 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red; some small flower shapes in red; finispiece with birds in black (f. 226v); four pages of drawings and notes (f. 227r-inside back cover).

Binding: Bound in brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); faint blind-stamped central mandorla with four pendants, one on each side and frame; red leather spine and corners; horizontal bands along spine.

Origin: The copy was completed on 18 Bābah, corresponding to Dhū al-Qaʻdah in the year 1190 A.H. (1776) by Mūsá, Khādim al-Sitt al-Sayyidah in Ḥārat al-Zuwaylah [Cairo] (f. 226v).

Watermark: Trelune

Several full page doodles of people with swords (f. 227r-228v; inside back cover).

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 167

OCLC:

1131863848