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[Gospel of Mark in Coptic].
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 189
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
- Standardized Title:
- Bible. Mark. Coptic.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Coptic
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, Coptic.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- Bibles
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Cyrus Adler (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- ii, 149, iii leaves : paper, illuminations ; 155 x 105 (120 x 70) mm bound to 155 x 110 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Egypt?], [publisher not identified], [between 1750 and 1850?]
- Language Note:
- Coptic with some Arabic.
- Summary:
- Gospel of Mark in Coptic, missing the first five verses, with some Arabic translation at the beginning (f. 1-14).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Written in 16 lines; frame-ruled; the first 14 leaves have a column in Coptic on the left (70 mm) and a column in Arabic on the right (30 mm); the rest of the text is the single column of Coptic with a wide margin on the right where the Arabic would have been.
- Script: Written in Coptic with Arabic in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Rubrications in red; illuminated initial letters in yellow, red, green.
- Binding: Disbound; held between pulpboard boards with yellow marbled paper sides; no spine; quires are oversewn.
- Origin: The item is not dated, perhaps produced in the second half of the 18th or 19th century.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 189.
- OCLC:
- 1191225217
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