مصحف جليل فيه. Muṣḥaf jalīl fīhi ...., 950 C.E.; 388-399 A.H.
Abstract
Incomplete copy of a collection of homilies and saints' and martyrs' lives. This manuscript is part of a now-dispersed manuscript written at Mt. Sinai. The table of contents (f. 3v-4r) lists 22 works, but only portions of the first and fourth are present in this manuscript. A set of 8 leaves on paper (170 x 160 mm) have been added in a later hand and include the incomplete story of the martyrdoms of Anbā Qūris, Yuḥannā, the three virgins and their mother.
Dates
- Creation: 950 C.E.; 388-399 A.H.
Creator
- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) (Author, Organization)
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Arabic
Custodial History
The date has been scrubbed, but probably mid-10th century. Copied by Thūmā, a monk of Saint Catherine's Monastary on Mount Sinai (f. 4r).
Sold by Ludwig Rosenthal in Munich in 1913.
Sold by K. Hiersemann in Leipzig in 1922, lot number 15, listed as Heiligenlegenden at 90,000 DM (label inside front cover).
Formerly owned by Arnold J. Mettler (bookplate inside front cover), and was part of the Arnold Mettler-Specker Collection on loan to the Zurich Zentralbibliothek under the designationOr. 74.
Sold at the Parke-Bernet Galleries sale held on 29-30 November 1948, catalog entry number 302 (clipping pasted onto inside front cover with note in pencil inside back cover).
Purchased by Howard Lehman Goodhart (bookplate inside back cover) in 1948 and listed as MS 95 in his book of purchases.
Author
- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)
Other related names
- Thūmā, al-Rāhib, active 950, scribe ثوما،
- Mettler, Arnold J, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner
- Parke-Bernet Galleries, auctioneer
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Howard Lehman Goodhart in 1949.
Bibliography
Bernard Outtier, Le sort des manuscrits du Katalog Hiersemann 500, ” Analecta Bollandiana 93 (1975), pp. 378-379.
G. Graf, "Alte christliche-arabische Fragmente," Oriens Christianus n.s. 4 (1914): 338-341. M. van Esbroeck, "Remembrement d'un manuscrit sinaïtique arabe de 950," in Actes du Premier Congrès International d'Études Arabes Chrétiennes (=Orientalia Christiana Analecta 218 (1982)), pp. 135-147.
Physical Description
Manuscript codex. Title from title page (f. 3r)
Parchment support
Bound in brown leather over wood with nails.
52 leaves : 212 x 170 (170 x 120) mm bound to 215 x 175 mm
Written in 15-17 long lines.
Written in New Style in black ink; pointed.
Rubrications in red.
Modern foliation in pencil added, lower gutter margin recto.
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