This volume contains a bilingual Coptic-Arabic version of Proverbs.Contents:Illumination in the form of a Cross (f 2v)Proverbs 1:1-14:26 (ff 3r-63v)The text is undated and does not contain a colophon. It is presumed to have been copied in the first half of the 19th century CE.
Proverbs
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Or 423
- Dates of Creation
- Early 19th century
- Language of Material
- Arabic Coptic
- Physical Description
- Codex 63 ff Material: European paper.Dimensions: 240 mm x 175 mm [19 mm x 140 mm written; Arabic 30 mm].Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil. Coptic numerals on the verso.Lines per page: ca 17 lines/page.Script: Naskh (Arabic).Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and dots in red.Decoration: Headpiece in ribbon pattern in green, red, and yellow introduces the book on fol. 3r; a cross on fol. 2v in similar colours.Binding: British Museum binding.Condition: Good.Marginalia: Some notes, in Coptic.Quire marks: Quinions; an ending and beginning quire spread is marked with geometrical figures in red and white in the middle of the upper margins of each page, with Coptic numerals on both sides of the figure.Catch words: Lower margin of the verso.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Bought at Dean H. Tottam's sale on 16 June 1868.
Other Finding Aids
Crum, Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), vol. 2, item 725, p. 319.