Library Number:

ML.MS.24

folios/fragments:

337 (667 +6 pages)

Language:

Arabic and some Coptic

Material:

Modern glossy paper

Format:

Codex, 20 folios per quire

Dimensions:

130x94 mm, text 90x60 mm

Arrangement:

1-column with 9 lines (Arabic), 7-9 lines Coptic

Script:

Modern Arabic writing, black with some red ink

Page Numbering:

Arabic every page

Illuminations:

Chapter headings (11), cross Miniature, red verse markings and text headings, and brown and red text borders.

Marginalia:

None

Colophons:

Owner or scribe name in front and a later gift dedication in the name of a nun

Binding:

Modern cardboard yellowish green cover with French design and an older picture from a celebrated liturgy

Contents:

Liturgical. Modern Transcription of The Horologion (al-Agbeyia) or the Book of the Seven Evening and Day Prayers Based on the Copy of the Patriarch Al-Tawfiqiya Society AM 1616 (AD 1900). (P.5) Agbeyia. In it the Morning and Compline prayers are missing Troporia and Theotokia. Psalms are numbered in KJV numbers rather than the normal Coptic. (P.402) Miscellaneous prayers. (P.432) Christian instructions on Prayers and Bible Readings. (P.632) Table of Contents. (P.636) Appendix on the Holy Bible. (P.651) Coptic Hymns for Lent.

Dating:

Circa 1900

Scribe:

Hanna Fam al-Malaghy from Damanhur

Owner

Same as scribe. Given as gift to the nun Martha Al-Malak Mikhail on 8/26/1958

Provenance:

Damanhur

History:

See ML.MS.23

Related Fragments

Unknown