This volume contains Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentation, Baruch, the Epistle of Jeremiah, in Coptic and Arabic. The Arabic text seems to be the translation attributed to al-ʿAlam al-Iskandarī. Contents :. Illumination, Isaiah, fol. 1v. Isaiah, fols. 2r-97r. waqfiyya, fol. 97r. Illumination Jeremiah and Baruch, fol. 97v. Jeremiah, fols. 98r-194v. Lamentation, fols. 194v-203v. Baruch, fols. 204r-212r. Epistle of Jeremiah, fols. 212r-216r. Colophon, fols. 216v-217r. waqfiyya, fol. 217r. List of liturgical readings from Isaiah and Jeremiah, fols. 217v-218r, 219 r (218v blank). Illumination, fol. 220r. Colophon: fols. 216v-217r. The manuscript was produced on behalf of Bishop Athanasius of Abū Tīj. It was completed in Emshīr 1522 Anno Martyrum (February 1806 CE), cf. Rieu, Supplement, 6; Crum, Catalogue, 319.
Major Prophets.
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- Reference
- GB 59 Or 1319
- Dates of Creation
- 1806
- Language of Material
- Arabic Coptic
- Physical Description
- 1 item 220 ff. Material: European paper. Dimensions: 430 mm x 285 mm [330 mm x 190 mm written: the Arabic column: 330 mm x 40 mm]. Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Coptic folio numerals on recto. Lines per page: 33 lines/page. Script: Naskh. Scribe: The scribe of the Coptic text is Yūḥannā b. Sulaymān and that of the Arabic text Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, priest in the Church of the Virgin in Cairo. Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and other text units and text dividers in red. Decoration: Two large, colourful illuminations preceding the prophets (fol. 1v and 97v) as well as one at the end, without colour (fol. 220r). In addition, coloured animals and geometrical patters sporadically appear in the margins. Binding: British Museum binding. Condition: Good. Marginalia: Some notes. Quire marks: Quinions; an ending and beginning of a quire spread is marked with geometrical figures in red, yellow, silver, green and/or white in the middle of the upper margins of each page, with Coptic numerals on both sides of the figure. Catch words: In Coptic (lower right corner of the verso). Other: Waqfiyyāt on fols. 97r and 217r inform us that the manuscript was donated to the monastery of Saint Anthony and provide restrictions of its use.
Scope and Content
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Acquisition Information
Purchased by the British Museum from Sir Charles A. Murray on 12 June 1875.
Other Finding Aids
Rieu, Charles. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The British Museum, 1894), Item 3, pp. 5-6; Crum, Walter Erwing. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts at the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), item 726, p. 319.