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Subḥat al-malāʼikah baʻda Injīl Yūḥannā fī ṣalāt bākir. Ṣalāt niṣf al-layl.
سبحة الملائكة بعد انجيل يوحنا في صلاة باكر. صلاة نصف الليل.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 192
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Arabic
- Coptic
- Subjects (All):
- Coptic Church.
- Prayers and devotions.
- Coptic Church--Prayers and devotions.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Coptic.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- prayers (compositions)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- i, 41 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 163 x 110 (105 x 90) mm bound to 163 x 110 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Egypt], [publisher not identified], [between 1800 and 1899?]
- Language Note:
- Coptic with Arabic translation.
- Summary:
- Two prayers copied in the same hand and bound together. The first is a short prayer to follow the Gospel of John in the morning and the second is the complete midnight prayers.
- Notes:
- Titles from caption titles (f. 1r, 8r).
- Foliation: Coptic numeral foliation, upper left verso, each work foliated seperately (i, 1-6, 1-32, ii) catchwords every verso, lower left. Arabic numeral foliation added in pencil, upper left recto. References in the record are to the Arabic foliation.
- Layout: Written in 16 lines in two columns, a wider column (65 mm) for Coptic on the left and a narrower column (25 mm) on the right for Arabic.
- Script: Written in Coptic with Arabic in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Headpieces in gray, black and faded red (f. 1r, 8r); decorated initials and rubrications in faded red and gray.
- Binding: Bound as a pamphlet in gray paper that is slightly too narrow for the textblock.
- Origin: Copied by Rizq Ibn Yūsuf ibn Ḥannā, from Egypt, in the 19th century (f. 40v).
- Description of manuscript in English laid in.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 192
- OCLC:
- 1184766361
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