University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 114

Metadata

DS ID:

DS12663

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 114

Title:

Lives of holy men

Place:

Egypt?

Egypt TGN

Date:

approximately 1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Coptic and Arabic, marginal notes in Arabic

Coptic WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (Box 3607) and positive

Physical Description:

Extent: 325 leaves : paper ; 151 x 101 (122 x 74) mm bound to 149 x 105 mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (Box 3607) and positive.

Former Owner(s):

Shaw, William J. 1824-

William J. Shaw WIKIDATA

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919

Phoebe Hearst WIKIDATA

Note:

Purchased by William J. Shaw in Cairo, Nov. 26, 1870. Gift of Phoebe Apperson Hears to the Bancroft Library.
Ms. codex.
Title adapted from 19th century notes on fol. 1r.
Collation: Paper, fol. 325; 1[beta]0 28 3[beta]0 (+1), 4-6[beta]0 74 8-12[beta]0 13[beta]0 ( -1?) 14[beta]4 (quire of 10 fols. with quire of 4 fols. sewn in) 15-17[beta]0 18[beta]0 ( -1) 19[beta]0 (+1) 20[beta]2 21[beta]0 (+1) 228 23[beta]0 (+1) 24[beta]0 (+1) 258 26-31[beta]0 32[beta]0 (quires of 8 folios with bifolium sewn in) 33[beta]0.
Layout: Generally 15 long lines.
Decoration: Initials and letters throughout touched in red.
Binding: Leather over paste board; severely damaged in fire, fore-edge flap shrunken; sewn endbands partially unraveled.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 114.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS uncat 1909.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Biographies

Coptic Christian saints

Manuscripts, Medieval

Coptic manuscripts

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035248589706532

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley