Collection of Augustine's writings on marriage and sexuality., Contents f1v Prologus. Epistola ad valerium. f2v De Nuptis. f63 De Sancta Virginitate. f86 De Bono Viduale. f99v Ad Hieronymum. f106v Retractio Librorum Beati Augustini. ff 1v-18r Prologue, Book I marriage and concupiscence Prologus St. Augustinus is libros de nup/tis et concupiscetia [Large_S]cripsi duos libros abillustre(m) viru(m). -- ff 19r-46r: Book II ...incipit secundus INTERALILITIETVECVRAS et in lustris persone quas pro/meritis gestas actus que re (-gi-) publice necessarius fili diline/ et honorande Valeri tanto studiote adsus hereticos/ ineloquia divina flagrare. -- ff 46r-47v The epilogue Qui bona multa cupit. nec undiq; capere novit./ sic ego queti; locis reperi degens alieni. -- ff 46v-62v: A Book on Good Marriage, Quod unus quisque homo humani generis pars est et sociale quiditam est natura humana. -- ff 63r-85v: A Book on Blessed Virginity ff 72v-85r de Virginibus pergite itaque sancti dei pueri ac puelle manes et femine celebes et in nuptie... -- ff 85v-99v A book on good widowhood. -- ff 99v-106r A letter from Augustine to Jerome. Augustinus ad ieroni mu(?) ite eo quod scripti ei. qui tota legem... -- ff 106r-106v Jerome's reply. Rescripto beati ierohim venerabili pape Augustinus Hieronius. -- f ir/v a fragment not authored by Augustine., Manuscript codex., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 109+1 leaves in 15 gatherings of 8 leaves; XII⁴, showing 4 removed;14⁷, 15 of 2 stubs+flyleaf. Foliation in ink on upper corner of each recto, 1-110 in Arabic numerals. Signatures. Stylus ruled., Origin: Germany., Layout: 1 column of 28 lines upon a writing area 79 x 126 mm., Script: Gothic bookhand., Decoration: Eight Capitals in Red, Blue, and Yellow ink. f1v(S), f1v(D), f19R(I),f46v(Q),f63r(L),f86r(A), f99v(Q), f106r(V)., Binding: Deerskin over wooden boards. Leaf of old manuscript used as endpaper.
This bifolium preserves two pages of a liturgical Pentateuch, or humash, containing the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Aramaic translation of the Targum, alternating verse by verse, with the grammatical notes of the Masora parva between the columns. Despite the losses sustained from its later use as binding scrap, this item is mostly intact., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet of 2 leaves (4 pages)., Origin: Germany?, Layout: Double column, 34 lines., Script: written in a square script., Decoration: None., Annotations: A few marginal notations and a line of text in Italian in a later hand., Disbound; manuscript binding waste recovered from a binding and therefore quite browned and with the text on the one side of the sheet obscured (but legible) by binder's glue; small losses to the gutter and the corners filled with modern paper.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., No translation of the text has been made but it has been described as, A ritual, not very old. by Dr. Louis Ginzberg of the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1921. This work also contains psalms and hymns., Collation: Quarto in quires varying in number; I, III, V⁶; II, IV¹⁴; VI¹²;VII-XII¹⁰. Catchwords in bottom margin, folio numbers in pencil added later., Origin: Samaria, Mount Gerazim, Nablus, 19th Century. Date given as Ragab 1265, that is, March-April 1887., Script: Samaritan square hand. Intermittent rubrication in same Samaritan Square Hand with some red in Arabic. 118 leaves of text, 2 of index & notes., Decoration: Abecedarion of Samaritan into Arabic inside front cover. Various colophons with staggered rubrication., Binding: Original leather with oriental flap 203 x 165 mm rag paper pasted onto both covers.
Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Origin: France?, Layout: Two columns, 57 lines each. Horizontal and vertical ruling is visible on both recto and verso., Lettering: Gothic textualis., Decoration: Initials in red and blue flourishing. Script is in black ink. Running titles alternating red and blue., Binding: Disbound.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet (two pages)., Decoration: Initials in gold and blue, with purple and red pen-flourishing., Binding: Unbound.
Summary: Includes Ghazal 164 and possibly Ghazal 46., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Lettering: Written in Nasta'liq script., Collation: disbound sheets.
Manuscript document., Title from bookdealer's description., Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Origin: Europe., Layout: One column, 22 lines; ruled., Lettering: Gothic., Decoration: Two initials in red; rubricated in red., Binding: Disbound.
Recto – The first line continues the Responsory Verse for the Common of several Martyrs: “…novum laus ejus in ecclesia sanctorum.” Starting at the blue T on the third line of music is the first half of the antiphon for All Saints’ Day: Timete dominum om(ne)s sancti ejus quoniam nihil deest timentib(us) eum…” The fifth line of music beginning with “Inquirentes” is the Responsory Verse for Judoci: “Inquirentes autem dominu(m) no(n) deficient omni bono.” The last line of music beginning with the blue P begins the antiphon for All Saints’ Day and is continued in the first line of music on verso: “Pretiosa in c(on)spectu domini mors sanctoru(m) ejus.” Verso – The second line of music beginning with the red C is a Verse for the Sacrificium for Missa quam Sacerdos pro se dicere debeat, an Old Hispanic chant: “Credidi p(ro)pter quod locutus sum ego autem humiliates su(m) nimis.” The end of the fourth line of music, beginning with the red S is Alleluia for the feast of Popes Fabian and Sebastian: “Allelu(y)a Sancti tui domine benedicent te gloriam regni tui dicent.” Last line of text and music beginning with “Lau” is the Alleluia chant for Easter Sunday Mass: “Allelu(y)a. Laudate pueri dominu(m) laudate nomen…”, Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: single sheet., Origin: Northern Iberian Peninsula., Layout: Eight lines of music notation., Lettering: Written in Gothic script (textualis prescissa)., Decoration: Music lines in red. Capitals alternate between blue and red. Roman numeral XLVI alternates between blue and red. Words and notation in black., Binding: Disbound.
Illuminated Persian Manuscript in Nasta'liq. Odes of Hafiz, short ghazal couplets form a collection under the name Diwan. Each ode of 5-16 couplets, last couplet rhyming the poets name (called the Maqta). Edward G. Browne, in Persian Literature under the Tartar Dominion, states, Many of [Hafiz's] odes are to be taken in a symbolic and mystical sense few will deny; that others celebrate a beauty not celestial and a wine not allegorical can hardly be questioned., Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 8vo. First quires of 8 and 12. Catchwords at the foot of each verso. Unknown Signatures. No Pagination., Script: Farsi, Nasta'liq script., Markings: Front free endpaper: £15; 501; 38801; [circled] 45; F. Pollock. H. Young Co. / Liverpool / July 1902 / FP 129 / Persian / Hafz; [overscored]Y; Burgess MS 45; Hafiz; Illuminated MS / CLLT 25 meeting B-8.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: No pagination, No ruling. Much rubrication. Catchwords at the foot of each verso., Markings: Seal stamped in passport format upon f1v. Various other ownership stamps throughout. [Addendum (pasted in rear cover)/(Translated from Arabic by Zahra Albasri)]: From what the writer brought in his book, to detect the thoughts that the Lord Abu Alkhair in unite on from Muftah Alsa'ada (The Key of Happiness) knowledge about how to create fonts. From what he states first, the science of the fonts are the (writing instrument), how to ... also, ibn AlBawab writes in the science of the font a significant poem that he wrote about the tools of writing, and yaqout wrote about that too., Binding: Very straight horizontal grain dark-green morocco with cover flap. Front and Back cover paneled by 2 gilt 4 mm floral borders, with center medallion of the Mohammed. Enveloping flap has similar gilt border.
Hand-written Torah scroll fragment in Hebrew on deer parchment, including Beraishit - Genesis - 20:1-20:6., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 1 scroll., Origin: Morocco., Layout: Two columns, 47 lines, ruled in blind., Lettering: Written in square script.
Hand-written Torah scroll fragment in Hebrew on deer parchment, including Beraishit - Genesis - 20:1-20:6., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 1 scroll., Origin: Morocco., Layout: Single column, 48 lines, ruled in blind., Lettering: Written in square script.
This Manuscript, Written in Ge'ez, depicts prayer to and commentary regarding St. Michael. Additionally part 3 focuses on the Archangel Rufa'el and his miracles., Collation: I⁴(+1), II-III¹⁰, IV-I⁸, VI-VIII¹⁰, IX⁸, X¹², XI-XIV¹⁰, XV⁸(+1). No flyleaves, running titles, signatures, catchwords, or numbering., Decoration: 3 colored paintings 1. Michael on a pale horse over a dragon saving Berutawit. 2. Madonna and child flanked by angels offering flowers. Infant Jesus holds a book. 3. Raphael standing over prostate patron of book, likely Kidana Maryan., Binding: Oak boards covered with polished brown calf paneled in blind on both covers with 3 ornamental borders. Botonee Cross in the center. Spine tooled in blind with triple fillets forming a hatch pattern. Spine partly detached, with visible sewing structure., Script: Ge'ez Ethiopic Majuscule. In 3 hands of different periods with additions of a fourth of ownership., Handwritten leaf tipped on inside front cover [translated from French]: This Manuscript Belonged to Colonel Gally-Passebosc, killed by the savages of New Caldonia in 1878. This officer had been one of the expedition sent by the English against King Theodore (of Abyssinia) He took possession, after the defeat of that prince, of the tapis (carpet) on which he made his prayers, his shield, and this manuscript. Printed catalog description tipped on inside back cover cites Goodspeed description No. 5393, and states that the other Ethiopic manuscripts secured at this time were presented by this officer to the Bibliotheque Nationale., Quire 1: ff3-5; 22-27 lines; 19th c.; Part I: Hymn to Mika'el (Archangel Michael). Ownership information: Dadalla Maryan and her three sons: Kidana Maryan, Walda Takla Maryan and Gabra Madhen., Quire 2-10: ff6-90; 16 lines; 17th-18th c.; Part II: Dirsana Mika'el (Prayers to St. Michael) with other discourses on the Saint, and accounts of forty of his miracles (divided by rubric into 26 divisions): ff6-18 Dirsana Mika'el, ff22-24 Supplication, ff24-31 Miracles, ff31-35 Exhortation for Commemoration of the 7 Guardian Angels, ff53-73 Miracles, ff73-81 Discourse of Timothy of Jerusalem, ff81-88 Discourse of John, Bishop of Akuesum, ff88-90 Miracle of Mika'el. Ownership information: Walda Maryan original owner, and Kidana Maryan (in brown ink) thereafter., Quire 11-15: ff92-136;; 20 lines; 18th-19th c.; Part III: ff92-108v Discourse of St. John Chrysostom for the festival of Archangel Rapha'el, ff108v-136v: Miracles of Rafa'el. f136r: Hymns to Rufa'el. Ownership information: Fesseha Krestos Petromya and his son Walda Rufael. Secondary owner Kidana Maryan and his wife, Kabrta Salasie.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Catchwords at foot of each leaf, no signatures or numbers., Script: Nashki script in black with rubrication and some gold lettering., Decoration: Double-page illumination at beginning: each page has an outer border with red and gold floral motifs and curvilinear forms, the background mainly blue and lighter blue, with red areas at outside corners, and touches of black; this border is edged by gold trefoils. Inside this, a border outlined in red and gold with a horizontal panel at top and bottom with gold-on-gold writing, red and gold flowers on blue background, and narrow yellow border; narrower vertical rectangles in red and gold flower and vine motif on blue. Within the borders, a tiny text block of seven lines in black script, interspersed with gold circles bordered by red and green dots. Written throughout in gold-framed panels, interspersed with gold circles bordered by red and green dots. Gilt panel headings on all chapters; gilt marginal headings. Last page written in gold., Binding: Dark red morocco with flap, both covers and flap stamped with all-over floral motif with rectangular border. Inside covers have floral medallion and gold line border. Inside flap has small gold medallion and geometric border. Marbled flyleaves in combed blue, black, red, and yellow on white. Three newer flyleaves at front and back. Gilt and gauffered edges., Annotations: rear free endpapers: The MS was written by the poor Husain Zabd, son of the Sheikh Abdu-r-remez son of the Sheikh Sedru-ddin of the children of Sultan Bedru-d-din. ... agha ibu Mohammed. May god pardon him, his parents, and all Muselmans. Prayer be to God for the Prophet and his family all of them. In the year 1066 (A.D. 1655). G.C.R. At top page: G.C.R.N. 101, New cat. No. 63. John Fiott. Aleppo. Purchased of M.[onsieur Jean Louis] Burckhardt at Aleppo for the same price that he paid for it. Sir John Barker the British Resident at Aleppo, promised it for Burckhardt from Constantinople soon after he arrived in Syria, and having become possessed of one smaller and of less weight, he disposed of it to me, on his departure from Aleppo to Arabia. J. Lee. Repaired. London. In ink in another hand: On leaving Aleppo for Arabia and Egypt, he took nothing with him, but what he could carry on his mare, and had no extra baggage. I accompanied him to Hama and Tripoli and took leave of him there at the English Consul's house. He proceeded to Lebanon and Damascus and returned by Aradus-Latichem [probably Arwad (Arados) island and Latakia, Syria] and Antioch to Aleppo. Date at top of rear free endpaper in pencil: 5/10/37 or 31. Other pencil notes on free endpaper: 366, 825, 15/0.
A Missal, with Rituals, of the Maronites, a Christian sect of Syrian origin, mainly living in Lebanon, and speaking Arabic, which when written in Syriac characters is called Karshuni. They derive their name from the Syriac Christian Saint Maron (d. 410 CE), whose followers migrated in the 7th c. to the area of Mount Lebanon from their previous location of residence around the area of Antioch, establishing the nucleus of the Syriac Maronite Church. Pages 1-73 I. Missal. Opening page, under heading, begins with three red lines: The Beginning of the Ritual of the Mass, 'In the Name of the Father ... ' At first the priest says, while he takes off his clothes, after washing his hands ... 'Divest me, O Lord, of the sinful garments with which Satan hath clothed me, and clothe me with the chosen garments which are suitable for thy service, and to the praise of thy praiseworthy righteousness, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and in all time forever.' II. Rituals (each decorated by a headpiece of strapwork) according to: 1. St. Kusostas Baba; 2. St. John the Apostle; 3. St. Murush, Bishop of Tekrit; 4. St. James, Brother of Christ; 5. St. Mark; 6 St. Peter (contents per Professor Kraeling, Dept. of Semitic Languages, Columbia University, 1920 (Probably Emil Gottlieb Heinrich Kraeling (1892-1973), American Lutheran biblical scholar and Aramaicist), Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Quires of 10. Catchwords at inner corner, end of each quire. No signatures or numbers. 8 sewing stations. Paper repairs on some pages., Script: Bold, legible, in black ink with rubricated lines, words, and page titles throughout., Decoration: First recto has three-quarter border (top and sides) of geometric interlaced strapwork outlined in black ink and colored with red and grey ink wash; the title is written within the border in red and black capitals. Before each of the six rituals, there is a panel along the top of the page in the same colors and style. Each text page is outlined in red and black. Seven-page section in a different hand written with a thinner pen, sans rubrication., Binding: Re-used parchment over boards, attached with thongs. Marbled edges. Title on spine in brown ink: Missale Maroni. Syriac. Interior title: Missale Maronitarum Syro- /idiomate /Manoscritto.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Single quire, 8 sewing stations. Verso of each page has catchword for the next recto at bottom edge., Script: Coptic book script, with headings and occasional passages in Arabic. Text mainly black with some passages in brown ink. On f. 7v, part of a line in silver ink. Decorative swashes on descenders., Decoration: Introductory initials in black with red. Red figures or notations at ends of some lines; some ornamental penwork section dividers., Binding: Limp binding in cream-colored paper; cover consists of external sheet, two lining sheets, and pastedown. Cover edges bound with folded strip of brown paper along head, tail, and fore edge; now missing on tail edges. Spine covered with a strip of brown leather. Both covers have a floral design drawn (not printed) in green ink, with red flowers and green leaves crudely colored with ink wash., Numerous notations and marks on front inside cover. Pasted label Edward S. Burgess. Round label with picture of the Tower of Babel and text Maisonneuve et Cie, editeurs, a la Tour de Babel, Maisonneuve ink stamp, and pencil note Maissonneuve [sic] 1891 cat/6542. Pencil note: Guilmoto/7744. Probably E. Guilmoto, 19th c. publisher, Paris, also associated with the Librarie Orientale et Américaine. Inside back cover, typed label pasted in: 5369 - Prayers in Coptic and Arabic. In the original limp boards. Written on 22 pp., small 4to. 18th century and written in ink, W.[ilberforce] Eames' Sale, Apr. 11, '07, And[erson's]. Wilberforce Eames (1855-1937) was a noted librarian and bibliographer who purchased from Anderson
A dialog between a court official and a monk on matters of the Buddhist cosmology., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: The leaves are labeled in sequence with the letters of the alphabet., Decoration: Leaves of palmyra palm strung on red cords between two bevel edge wooden boards; edges decorated in gold with red central stripe. Between lines drawn in turmeric, the text was written with a stylus, then rubbed with petroleum to darken the script.
Contents: 1. Ff. 3r-5r: Image of Gabriel. -- 2. Ff. 6r-:13v: Prayer of Incense (Published in Ethiopia, Tənśa'e Zä-Guba'e Press, Addis Ababa, 1951 EC). -- 3. Ff. 14r-37v, 44r-170v: Missal; Rebound in some disorder. Office prayers, f. 14r; ordinary of the Mass, f. 44r; Anaphoras of the Apostles, f. 71r; Our Lord Jesus Christ, f. 77v; John Son of Thunder, f. 89r; Our Lady Mary By Cyriacus of Bəhənsa (called here dərsan homily, not akkwätet), f. 92r; the 318 Orthodox Fathers, f. 104r; John Chrysostom, f. 114; Epiphanius, f. 120r; Dioscorus, f. 127v; James of Sarug, f. 130r; Cyril of Alexandria, f. 138r; Athanasius the Apostolic, f. 145r; Gregory of Armenia, f. 156v; Basil, f. 161v. -- 4. Ff. 37v-38v: The litanical hymn to Christ, For the sake of your Trinity. -- 5. Ff. 38v-39v: Litanical hymn to Jesus Christ. -- 6. Ff. 39v-40v: Halleluiatic hymn to the Trinity. EMIP 39, f. 19r. -- 7. Ff. 40v-42v: Hymn to Saint George. -- 8. Ff. 42v-43v and 174r-176v: Hymn to Mary, You are blessed (Chaîne, Répertoire, no. 292. Most of these hymns (from 4 to 8) are part of the Horologium for night hours. -- 9. Ff. 171r-174r Monastic genealogy of the line of Abunä Ewosṭatewos. Cf. C. Conti Rossini, Il Gadla Filpos e Gadla Yohannes di Dabra Bizan, Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche, vol. VIII, ser. 5 (1903), pp. 154-6; and Getatchew Haile, A Fragment on the Monastic Fathers of the Ethiopian Church, Orbis Aethiopicus: Studia in honorem Stanislaus Chojnacki (ed. Piotr O. Scholz et al), Albstrat (1992), pp. 231-7., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Item cataloged from existing description in Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, in which this manuscript is entered as EMIP 72., Quires: 24 full quires, quires 7 and 10 numbered (as 4 and 1 respectively), 177 folios, 140 x 129 mm. Quire descriptions: quires 2-6, 8, 12-23 balanced; quire 24 adjusted balanced; quires 1, 7, 9-11 unbalanced., Binding: four altered Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards.
One leaf (two pages) from an illuminated manuscript of poetry in Persian, containing lines by Persian Suif poet Jāmī., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, single sheet, two pages., Origin: North India., Layout: 12 lines in 2 columns., Lettering: Nasta'liq script in black ink., Decoration: Intercolumnar rules decorated with floral motifs; corner pieces and outer margins decorated with floral sprays and motifs in colors and gold throughout, inner margins ruled in colors and gold., Binding: Disbound.
One leaf (two pages) from illuminated pocket Qur'an (manuscript) which includes the text from Surah VI (The Cattle). The folio encompasses the end of 6.33 and the entirety of 6.34-37: (33)but the unjust deny the communications of Allah. (34) And certainly apostles before you were rejected, but they were patient on being rejected and persecuted until Our help came to them; and there is none to change the words of Allah, and certainly there has come to you some information about the messengers. (35) And if their turning away is hard on you, then if you can seek an opening into the earth or a ladder to heaven so that you should bring them a sign and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have gathered them all on guidance, therefore be not ignorant. (36) Only those accept who listen; and the dead. Allah will raise them, then to Him they shall be returned. (37) And they say: Why has not a sign been sent down to him from his Lord? Say: Surely Allah is able to send down a sign but most of them do not know., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, single sheet, two pages., Origin: India., Layout: Single column of 13 lines., Lettering: Naskh script with Sura headings., Decoration: Text within borders ruled in black and gold; Sura headings in white ink on a ground of gold; verses separated by polychrome and gold medallions., Binding: Disbound.
One leaf (two pages) from a manuscript astronomical table, also known as a Zij, measuring and recording the movement of the constellations, the fixed stars, and the longitudes and latitudes for certain cities in the Muslim world. Compiled by the astronomer Ibn al-Raffa. On wove machine made paper. Recto: 18 rows and 10 columns to the page, in black, red, and blue ink, within ruled borders. Verso: 19 rows and 8 columns to the page, in black, red, and blue ink, within ruled borders., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, single sheet, two pages., Origin: North Africa., Layout: Tabular data., Lettering: Unidentified script., Binding: Disbound.
Two leaves (four pages) from a late 18th/early19th century Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper. Each leaf has on one side seven lines written in nadkhi script in black ink, with interlinear Persian translation, surrounded by 22 lines written diagonally in outer margins in nada'liq script, primarily in black ink, with significant words and sentences in red; and on the other side three lines of Arabic text, with interlinear Persian translation within broad, richly illuminated arabesque margins in blue, turquoise, orange, and two shades of gold. The text comes from one of the prayers of Muhammad from the hadith. A hadith consists of the accounts of words, deeds, or silent approval of Muhammad during the period of his preaching. The primary text loosely translates to: Lord, I am fighting with you, and I am trying with you., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, two sheets, four pages., Origin: North India., Layout: Single column of 7 lines, with interlinear translation; 22 lines written diagonally in outer margins., Lettering: Nadkhi script with Sura headings; Nada'liq script., Decoration: Significant words and sentences picked out in red, double interlinear gold rules, interlinear Persian translation in red ink, arabesque margins in blue, turquoise, orange, and two shades of gold., Binding: Disbound.
Treatise on Ethics Confirmed by Passages from the Koran., Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: XI quires, odd quires of 12 leaves, even of 8 leaves. Catchwords in inner bottom corner of verso. Foliation in pencil, lower right corner, in descending order from 111., Origin: Near East, 19th Century., Script: Turkish written in Arabic in 1 hand of black ink with red pointing and overscoring., Decoration: Inscription on bottom edge of pages in Turkish., Binding: Original half roan, pasted with marbled paper. Inscription on lower edge.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., This Firman contains grant of access to Turkish waters to a French merchant., Collation: Manuscript: A single page. Inscription in red Turkish letters on Verso. Sultan's seal in black ink. On wire laid paper with watermark., Accompanying the firman is a letter in long hand, on British Museum Stationery: British Museum, London: W.C. July 30, Dear Thompson, the enclosed proves to be a firman granted to the French Ambassador at Constantinople, in favor of a French merchant, Capitan named 'Kazabora' giving him free access to Turkish waters. It is dated A.H. 1235 = A.D. 1820. Yrs. Always. Robert K. Douglas.
One leaf (two pages) from an illuminated manuscript Qur'an, containing text from surah XXXII, As-Sajdah (the Adoration) and including verses 32.16-17: Their sides draw away from (their) beds, they call upon their lord in fear and in hope, and they spend out of what We have given them. So no soul knows what is hidden for them of that, which will refresh the eyes; a reward for what they did. The leaf includes a Persian interlinear translation in red., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Date and place of production from bookdealer's description., Collation: Paper, single sheet, two pages., Origin: India., Layout: Single column of 12 lines, with interlinear translation., Lettering of Arabic text: Naskh, with thuluth in the headings. Persian text in unidentified script., Decoration: Text within border of foliage in red and gold, with frames in red, black, gold, and green; verso has decoration in lower right margin, in gold, black, blue, and red., Annotations: Possible annotations on verso, far right edge., Binding: Disbound.
Apocalypse with Interpretations, divided into chapters preceded by 72 illustrations. Prologue by St. Andrew, Archbishop of Caesarea, Cappadocia. Final chapter, without illustration: Sign of Second Coming of Christ, ending, Then Hell will be captured by Our Lord Jesus Christ. Copied from a 17th century manuscript., Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Quires of 6 at beginning and end. 73 tipped-in illustrations. No signatures or catchwords; folio letters at lower right of text. Four blank flyleaves at front and back., Script: Cyrillic majuscule in black ink with rubrication of page headings and initials. First words of paragraph in red or purple., Decoration: 73 full page watercolor illustrations, drawn loosely in light brown and black ink and very crudely painted with color washes of green, brown, yellow, blue, red, and pink. Rubricated initials with red vine and flower extensions; red floral designs at ends of some books. Page opposite painting #2 (angel appearing to St. John) has a foliage headpiece and a right-side decorative motif, and both are crudely trimmed and pasted-in clippings from woodblock prints. These designs are roughly emulated in a freehand headpiece and right-side motif opposite painting #47 (first of seven vials), with foliage in green, blue, and pink on a pale yellow background; the same colors are used in the initial 'I'. Most other chapter headings simply have a rectangle outlined in black and/or red. There are several Hands of Blessing drawn in margins, some colored in., Paper watermarked alternately with Russian characters for 'F K N G' and 1836; another watermark has oval stamp, Superfine, London. Near the end are two ink stamps of French dealers.
Contents: 1. Ff. 1v-107r: Psalms of David. -- 2. Ff. 107v-119r: Biblical Canticles. -- 3. Ff. 119r-125v: Song of Songs, common version. 4. -- Ff. 125v-135v: Praises of Mary [Wəddase Maryam], laid out in one column. arranged for the days of the week (Monday, f. 125v; Tuesday, f. 126v; Wednesday, f. 128v; Thursday, f. 130; Friday, f. 132r; Saturday, f. 133v; Sunday, f. 134v). -- 5. Ff. 136r-139v: Gate of Light [Anqäṣä Bərhan]., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Item cataloged from existing description in Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, in which this manuscript is entered as EMIP 73., Quires: protection quire + 12 full quires, ii + 141 folios, 138 x 105 mm. Quire descriptions: quires 1-4, 6-12 balanced; quire 5 adjusted balanced., Binding: four Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards., Overlooked words of text are written interlinearly (f. 138v)., The scribe regularly has to complete a line of text on another line. Much of the problem is addressed through the selection of an appropriate aspect ratio for the codex combined with an appropriate script size. But, where the line of text is still too long, the scribe completes the line of text above the end of the line (e.g., ff. 1v, 2v, 3r, 4v, etc.). This scribe will also reduce the font size at the end of lines to avoid having to go onto the next line (e.g., ff. 55v and 57v).
Contents: 1. Ff. 1r-133v: Psalms of David. -- 2. Ff. 134r-147v: Biblical Canticles. -- 3. Ff. 147v-156v: Song of Songs, Hebraic version. -- 4. Ff. 157r-167r: Praises of Mary [Wəddase Maryam]. Arranged for the days of the week (Monday, f. 157r; Tuesday, f. 158r; Wednesday, f. 159v; Thursday, f. 161r; Friday, f. 163v; Saturday, f. 164v; Sunday, f. 166r). -- 5. Ff. 167r-171v: Gate of Light [Anqäṣä Bərhan]., Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Item cataloged from existing description in Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Volume 1, in which this manuscript is entered as EMIP 71., Quires: two protection quires + 17 full quires, quires 2, 4, 6-17 numbered, iv + 173 folios, 185 x 135 mm. Quire descriptions: quires 1-6, 8-17 balanced; quire 7 unbalanced., Overlooked words of text are written interlinearly (f. 90r); and overlooked lines of text are written interlinearly (f. 2v)., This scribe has avoided the problem of lines of text too long to fit on one line by adopting an aspect ratio that leaves ample room for the width of most lines. On a few occasions, the line would have been too long and the scribe finishes the end of the line with words written smaller so as to avoid leftover text (e.g., ff. 2v, 5r, 105v). Occasionally a line is still too long and has to be completed above or below the end of the line. In these cases, the scribe places the material above the line (e.g., ff. 47v, 50r, 60r, 65r, 87r, 107r, etc.) or below the line (e.g., ff. 50r and 65r)., Varia: F. iv: Quotation from Ps 114:3/116:3., Binding: four Coptic chain stitches attached with bridle attachments to rough-hewn boards.
Rich collection of old Indian folk-lore and fables preserved in the Persian versions of Kalilah and Dimnah, originally in Sanskrit., Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Catchwords at foot of each leaf; no signatures or numbers., Script: Shekasteh Nasta'liq style or broken Nasta'liq (developed in Iran in the 14th and 15th c. CE), in black with occasional rubricated characters and lines. Occasional English words of translation penciled on margin., Decoration: None., Binding: Brown marbled calf. Spine has 5 pairs of horizontal gold lines. Four flyleaves at beginning, two at end.
