This volume contains translations of the Pentateuch from Coptic. Contents:. Genesis, fols. 1r-63r (incomplete at beginning, see below). Exodus, fols. 64v-153v. Leviticus. fols. 154r-219v. Numbers, fols. 220r-304v (incomplete at beginning). Deuteronomy, fols. 305r-363v. The volume also contains an extra folio found later (cf. Crum, Catalogue, 315), corresponding to the missing beginning of Genesis. Some additional folios are missing, see Crum, Catalogue, 315 and Vollandt, Arabic, 268. The colophon for the manuscript can be found on f 63r and gives the date of completion as 29 Bābah 1109 AM (1393 CE). It is transcribed in Crum, Catalogue, p. 315.
Pentateuch
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Or 422
- Dates of Creation
- 1393
- Language of Material
- Arabic Coptic
- Physical Description
- Codex 364 ff Material: Oriental paper. Dimensions: 265 mm x 170 mm [210 mm x 160 mm written of which the Arabic column is ca 30-40 mm]. Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. See also remark on quires below. Lines per page: (Arabic) 26 lines/page. Script: (Arabic) Naskh. Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and marker in red (in Coptic text). Decoration: Illuminated rubrics (cf. bāb) in red, green, and yellow. Binding: British Museum binding. Condition: Many holes, seemingly worm eaten. One dismembered folio was originally catalogued as Or. 1242. Marginalia: A few variants of the Coptic, cf. Crum, Catalogue, 315. Quire marks: Normally six bifolia/quire. Folios in a quire are numbered 1-6 in the upper left corner on the verso with Coptic numerals and starts anew in the next quire.
Scope and Content
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
Bt. of Tattam's sale, 16 June 1868.
Other Finding Aids
Crum, W. E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2 (London: the British Museum. 1905), item 712, p. 315.