Keble MS. 90 (Keble College Library, Keble College, University of Oxford)
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Title: An Arabic (Coptic Orthodox, Egyptian?) Christian book of hours containing the seven daily and nightly prayersTitle: اجبية مباركةIncipit: بسم الله القوي نبتدي بعون الله وحسن توفيقه بنسخ اجبيه عربي تضمن السبع صلواة الليالية والنهارية بسلام من الرب امينExplicit: تم يقول ايها الملك السمايي واجيوس والامانة والتحاليل ويختم الصلاهColophon: تم وكمل هذه الاجبيه المباركه تحوي السبع صلاوات اللياليه والنهاريه بسلام من الرب امينLanguage(s): ArabicAn Arabic اجبية (Coptic Agpeya), a book of hours of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Lengthy scribal note on fols. 173a-174a.
Physical Description
Form: codexExtent: ff. ii + 176Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 105 mm.Layout
One column of 10 or 11 lines per page. 110 × 75 mm.
Hand(s)
Script: Naskh.
Decoration
Folio 1b contains an image of a cross in red and green colours.
Binding
Eastern binding of red leather over boards with stamped central lozenge and corner pieces. Envelope flap.
History
Origin: 1270 AH; 1853-54 CEProvenance and Acquisition
Ex libris of Rev. Greville J. Chester, Keble College, fol. 176a.
Likely to have been donated to Keble College Library by Rev. Chester in 1882.
Record Sources
Description based on Parkes, The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford.Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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