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ML.MS.23

Library Number:

ML.MS.23

folios/fragments:

48 (missing pages at the beginning and within)

Language:

Arabic

Material:

Paper

Format:

Codex, indeterminate number of folios per quire

Dimensions:

150x100 mm, text 90x60 mm

Arrangement:

1-column with 12 lines per page

Script:

Upright in black ink and last five folios in dark blue pencil.

Page Numbering:

Unnumbered

Illuminations:

Headings in black frames with simple designs

Marginalia:

The last owner who bound it added prayers in the last supposedly five blank folios

Colophons:

None

Binding:

Leather with an end flap. The front cover has a two-line rectangular frame

Contents:

Liturgical. The first text is the "Book of the Seven Prayers". It has all the prayers found in the Coptic Horologion except for the substitution of the recitation of the Lord Prayer 12 times in each hour. The second text is a collection of miscellaneous prayers in the same hand. The third text is miscellaneous prayers and psalms written by a later hand on blank pages added after last binding

Dating:

Unknown

Scribe:

Unknown

Owner

Last owner, Nashed Naguib (cover embossing)

Provenance:

Unknown

History:

Bought from an Egyptian dealer on EBay from Finland in November 2006

Related Fragments

Unknown

 

Last Modified: 4/20/2007 by Hany N. Takla