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al-Ibṣalmudīyah.
الابصلمدية.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 196
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Psalmodia. Coptic. Selections
- الإبصلمودية. قبطية. Selections
- Language:
- Arabic
- Coptic
- Subjects (All):
- Coptic Church.
- Liturgics.
- Coptic Church--Liturgy--Texts.
- Coptic Church--Hymns--Texts.
- Genre:
- Hymns.
- Texts.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Coptic.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- prayers (compositions)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned Cyrus Adler (note on bookplate last leaf verso).
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate last leaf verso).
- Physical Description:
- 153, ii leaves : paper, illustrations, illuminations ; 214 x 150 (150 x 100) mm
- Other Title:
- Abṣalmudīyah
- Place of Publication:
- [Egypt], [publisher not identified], [between 1750 to 1850?]
- Language Note:
- Coptic with some headings and words in Arabic.
- Summary:
- Selections from the Psalmodia in Coptic; numerous illuminations and illustrations.
- Notes:
- Title from caption title (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Written in 17 long lines.
- Script: Written in Coptic in black ink; some Arabic in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Numerous headpieces and decorated initial letters, chiefly red and yellow; numerous birds and other animals in the margins, primarily yellow with red and green; rubrications in red; several illustrations in red and yellow: angel (f. 10r); circular diagram (f. 75r); Dāwūd al-Nabī (f. 98v); Virgin and child (f. 118r).
- Binding: Disbound; quires still connected at two sewing stations; held in a red paper folder.
- Origin: The copy is undated; perhaps produced in the second half of the 18th or 19th century.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 196.
- OCLC:
- 1184766513
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