This volume contains an Arabic translation of the Gospels, according to the so-called Alexandrian Vulgate. The introduction is by Simʿān ibn Kalīl, (ca. 1150-1240 CE) structured according to the seven isagogic questions. Contents :. Introduction (beginning is missing), fols. 1r-3v. Eusebian canons, fols. 4r-9r. Prologue to Matthew, fol. 9r-9v. Matthew, fols. 9v-43v. Prologue to Mark, fols. 44r-45r. Mark, fols. 45v-67r. Prologue to Luke, fols. 67v-69v. Luke, fols. 70r-109r. Prologue to John, fols. 109v-110v. John, fols. 111r-140v. Tables for reading lessons/calendar, fols. 141r-154v. Text samples in Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 10-11. Colophons can be found on the following folios: on f 43v, we read that the copy of Matthew was finished on 7 Kiyāhk in the year 997 Anno Martyrum/679 AH (10 December 1280 CE) in Damascus in the Coptic Egyptian church from what was transmitted by the Metropolitan (muṭrān) Anba Akhristāṭalū (Christodoulos), the Metropolitan of Dumyāṭ, known as Ibn al-Dahīrī; on f 67r, it is written that Mark was finished on 10 Kiyāhk in the year 997 Anno Martyrum/679 AH (13 December 1280 CE); on f 109r, that Luke was finished on 20 Kiyāhk in the year 997 Anno Martyrum /679 AH (23 December 1280 CE) in Damascus; and on f 140v that John was finished on 28 Kiyāhk the year 997 Anno Martyrum /679 AH (31 December 1280 CE) from a copy by Anba Akhristāṭalū who was active during the time of Patriarch Cyril Laqlaq (all colophons transcribed in Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 10-11).
Gospels
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Arundel Or 20
- Dates of Creation
- 1280
- Language of Material
- Arabic Syriac
- Physical Description
- Codex 154 ff Material: Oriental paper. Dimensions: 250/255 x 160/170 mm [190 x 130 mm written]. Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. Lines per page: 17 lines/page. Script: Naskh.Ink:(light/dark) brown ink, with rubricated headings and dividing marks in red.Binding: British Museum binding. Condition: Generally good, but partly water damaged. Marginalia: Comments in Syriac, Coptic Epact numbers. Quire marks: Quinions, each quire is marked at the upper left corner of recto with Arabic letters. All together 16 quires. Other: waqfiyya on 45r (transcribed in Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, 10).
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Other Finding Aids
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: British Museum, 1846-71), item 11, pp. 10-11.