Script: Black and red ink.

Some marginalia and redactions. Contains both Coptic and Arabic numbering systems. Some thematic arrangement and sections of Greco-Coptic words.

Binding: Marbled board binding. Cloth spine. 19th-20th century.

From the collection of Rev. Johann Rudolph Theophilus Lieder (1797-1865). His collection of antiquities was purchased by William Tyssen-Amherst, First Baron Amherst of Hackney, for £200 in 1868. Note on the inside of the front cover: “This is a Coptic = Arabic Dictionary or [Iyllim?] (Scales) as I think Jn. Lieder said a Dictionary of this kind is called. It is a MS Copy of one which has been recently found for one of the Coptic Convents in Egypt. I procured it from the Rev. Jn. Lieder at Cairo -16th April 1858.” Contains a stamp from the Allan Library, a Methodist foreign-language book and manuscript library (~1891). Bookplate and de-accession stamp from the London Library, St. James' Square, on the front cover. In use in the London Library at least during the 1920's.

In Bohairic Coptic, Arabic

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