Title from caption title (f. 1r). Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper right recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: Written in 17 long lines. Script: Written in Coptic in black ink; some Arabic in naskh in black ink; pointed. Decoration: Numerous headpieces and decorated initial letters, chiefly red and yellow; numerous birds and other animals in the margins, primarily yellow with red and green; rubrications in red; several illustrations in red and yellow: angel (f. 10r); circular diagram (f. 75r); Dāwūd al-Nabī (f. 98v); Virgin and child (f. 118r). Binding: Disbound; quires still connected at two sewing stations; held in a red paper folder. Origin: The copy is undated; perhaps produced in the second half of the 18th or 19th century. Formerly owned Cyrus Adler (note on bookplate last leaf verso). Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate last leaf verso).
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