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Kitāb Tartīb Jumʻat al-Baṣkhah al-muqaddasah.
كتاب ترتيب جمعة البصخة المقدسة.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 194
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Arabic
- Coptic
- Subjects (All):
- Coptic Church.
- Sermons.
- Liturgics.
- Coptic Church--Liturgy--Texts.
- Coptic Church--Sermons.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Coptic.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- prayers (compositions)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned Cyrus Adler (note on bookplate inside front cover).
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- i, 141 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 263 x 190 (215 x 150) mm bound to 262 x 195 mm
- Other Title:
- Tartīb Jumʻat al-Baṣkhah al-muqaddasah
- ترتيب جمعة البصخة المقدسة
- Place of Publication:
- Egypt, [publisher not identified], A.H. 1252 (1836)
- Language Note:
- Coptic and Arabic.
- Summary:
- Copy of the Holy Pascha (Holy Week) homilies.
- Notes:
- Titles from caption titles (f. 1r, 8r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Chiefly written in 24 lines in two columns, a wider column (100 mm) for Coptic on the left and a narrower column (45 mm) on the right for Arabic; frame-ruled. Some pages are entirely in Arabic in long lines.
- Script: Written in Coptic with Arabic in naskh in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.
- Decoration: Cross frontispiece in red and black (f. 1v); decorative letters in red and black with black marginal designs (f. 2r)
- Binding: Disbound from covers with quires still connected at three sewing stations; covers of brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); stamped and painted doublures.
- Origin: Copy made by Rizq ibn Yūsuf al-Rashīdī, brother of Ibrāhīm al-Rashīdī for whom this copy was made (f. 137r). Copy completed on the first Friday of Kiyahk in 1553 of the Holy Martyrs, Shaʻbān 1252 A.H. (1836 CE) (f. 136v).
- "Praise to be said on feast of the Palms" copied after the colophon in a different hand (f. 137v-138r).
- Title also in Coptic.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 194.
- OCLC:
- 1192489375
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