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Book/Printed Material Psalter of David the Prophet.

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Title

  • Psalter of David the Prophet.

Summary

  • The manuscript presented here is entitled Kitāb zabūr Dāwūd al-nabī ʻalayhī afḍal al-salām (The Book of Psalms of David the prophet, the most favorable peace be upon him). It contains the text in Arabic of the 150 psalms in the biblical Book of Psalms. The manuscript is undated, but the colophon states: "It was completed by the servant Thalja based on the copy made by the youth Butrus, son of Halab Shah the Armenian." If the latter were the artist Halab Shah ibn 'Isa of Aleppo, then the manuscript could be dated to the period between 1600 and the early 1700s. Some of the psalms are copied out of order or are not numbered according to customary enumeration, a fact noted by the copyist. Some psalms are attributed to writers other than David, such as Zechariah and Korah (who is mislabeled a prophet in the text). The work is copied in a strong, unvowelled naskh script in black ink for the text and red for the title and heading of each psalm. The book is bound in red leather with the traditional fore-edge flap. There are 18 lines per page. The book is unpaginated, but there are guidewords and guides for the bookbinder. The manuscript bears the ownership inscription of George Rentz (George S. Rentz, Junior, 1912-87), an American Arabist and scholar at Saudi Aramco, formerly the Arabian American Oil Company.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1600 to 1700]

Headings

  • -  1600 to 1700
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Bible. Old Testament
  • -  Psalms
  • -  Psalters

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 100 pages ; 19 x 14 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Suraiya N. Faroqhi, The Cambridge History of Turkey (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006),
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667373

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Psalter of David the Prophet. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1700, 1600] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667373/.

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(1600) Psalter of David the Prophet. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1700] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667373/.

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Psalter of David the Prophet. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1700, 1600] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667373/>.