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Muqaddimat al-Rasāʼil Būlus.
مقدمة الرسائل بولس.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Muʼtaman Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, active 13th century.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Epistles of Paul.
- Bible. Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commentaries
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate front flyleaf recto).
- Physical Description:
- i, 196 leaves : paper ; 330 x 232 (250 x 165) bound to 335 x 235 mm
- Other Title:
- Commonly referred to as: Introduction to the Pauline Epistles
- Muqaddimat Rasāʼil Būlus
- مقدمة رسائل بولس
- Place of Publication:
- [between 1750 and 1800?].
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Letters of Saint Paul with commentary; ends abruptly.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (f. 9r).
- Foliation: Paper, i + 196; 1-82, i, 83-196; modern script foliation in pencil, upper center recto; Coptic foliation, upper left recto; catchwords on versos, lower left corner.
- Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red. Sets of four dots occasionally appear throughout.
- Binding: Damaged brown leather over thick pasteboard (Type III); repaired with printed material.
- Origin: The item is undated, perhaps produced in the second half of the 18th century.
- A quire of 8 leaves containing a title page, table of contents and the first part of the first homily of John Chrysostom is inserted at the beginning; likely misplaced from CAJS Rar Ms 176 which contains the rest of that text (with the missing beginning recopied on later paper in a different hand). The inserted leaves also contain the signature of the same owner, Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī, next to the header for the first homily, where it appears in the rest of the homilies in CAJS Rar Ms 176.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 175
- Contains:
- John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. Homilies. Selections. Arabic.
- Bible. Epistles of Paul. Selections. Arabic.
- OCLC:
- 1150883880
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