Muṣḥaf jalīl fīhi ....
- Holding institution:
- Bryn Mawr College Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- Muṣḥaf jalīl fīhi ....
مصحف جليل فيه - Creator:
- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)
- Date:
- 950?
- Description:
- 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.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 10th century
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts (documents)
Christianity
Saints--Legends
Martyrs--Legends
Martyrologies--Early works to 1800
Christian literature, Arabic--Early works to 1800 - Geographic region:
- Sinai, Egypt
- Provenance:
- Gift of Howard Lehman Goodhart in 1949.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 Anrold J. Mettler as part of the Arnold Mettler-Specker Collection (bookplate inside back cover) on loan to the Zurich Zentralbibliothek under the designation Or. 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.
- Extent:
- Written in 15-17 long lines.
- Publisher:
- Bryn Mawr College Libraries
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Special Collections BV 69: Muṣḥaf jalīl fīhi .... are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- BV 69
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World