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 |