CUL, T-S Ar. 20.5
- Details
- Item Images (2)
- Other Items in Shelfmark (0)
T-S Ar. 20.5
CUL (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Document
Verso: Book list in Arabic letters listing Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Report of a warraq workshop (copyist, bookbinder and vocalizer).
Book list
Document Definition
Horizontal rectangle
Document
Content Description
- Book list
- Account
- Arabic
- Judeo-Arabic
verso
1. كتب الله سلامته (top left corner)
2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
3. الذي كتب وجلد من الرسايل وأُنقد
4. رسالة العدد جزئين مجلدين ثمانية وعشرين كراسّة
5. رسالة الأخلاق جزئين مجلدين ستة وعشرين كراسة
6. الارا والمذاهب جزئين مجلدين خمسة وعشرين كراسة
7. السحر والغرائب جزئين مجلدين ثلثة وتلثين كراسة
8. الطريق إلى الله ومائية
9. الاعـتقاد جزء واحد مجلد عشرة كراريس
10. رسالة [...] القيامة جز واحد مجلد سبعة كراريس
1. May God grant him safety
2. In the name of God the Beneficent, the Merciful.
3. What has been copied and bound from the epistles and were paid for:
4. (1) Epistle of Arithmetic (risālat al-adad), two bound booklets, 28 quires;
5. (2) Epistle of Virtues (risālat al-akhlāq), two bound booklets, 26 quires;
6. (3) Opinions and Doctrines (al-ārāʿ wal-madhāhib), two bound booklets, 25 quires;
7. (4) Magic and Marvel (as-Siḥr wal-Gharāʾīb), two bound booklets, 33 quires;
8. (5) The path to God and on the essence
9. (6) of the conviction [i.e. what it means to accept something as true] one bound booklet, 10 quires;
10. Epistle [...] (7) the Resurrection (al-Qiyāma), one bound booklet, 7 quires.
Physical Description
80 mm
140 mm
1
Fragment of a leaf/sheet
Only approximately half of the original document.
Visible
No
Paper
Brown-Grey
Unidentified
No pricking
No ruling
- Text on recto and verso
- Additional blocks of text
1
10
No graphic marks of text navigation
Arabic
Oriental
No vowels or accents
Marginal
Unbound
Bibliography
- Baker, Colin F., Polliack, Meira, 2001, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections. Arabic Old Series (T-S Ar.1a-54), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 86.
- Link to the shelfmark entry in the Princeton Genizah Project database: T-S Ar.20.5
