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English: Full PDF file of the Hypatian Codex (Ipat), a manuscript collection containing copies of the Primary Chronicle (PVL), the Kyivan / Kievan Chronicle (KC), and the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle (GVC). It was written some time in the 1420s in the Old East Slavic recension of Church Slavonic, and displays linguistic features, provenance ...
Old Arabic and its descendants are classified as Central Semitic languages, which is an intermediate language group containing the Northwest Semitic languages (e.g., Aramaic and Hebrew), the languages of the Dadanitic, Taymanitic inscriptions, the poorly understood languages labeled Thamudic, and the ancient languages of Yemen written in the Ancient South Arabian script.
The manuscript called Mt. Sinai Arabic Codex 151, was created in AD 867 in Damascus by someone named Bishr Ibn Al Sirri. Although it is a large, bound book, it only contains the Book of Acts and the Epistles, translated from Aramaic . It includes the biblical text, marginal comments, lectionary notes, and glosses. [2] [3] Codex Arabicus
[2] [3] It is presently believed that the manuscript is an early descendant of the Uthmanic codex. [4] [5] It is part of the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts, held by the university's Cadbury Research Library. [2] The manuscript is written in ink on parchment, using an Arabic Hejazi script and is still clearly legible. [3]
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
Codex Mashhad, MS 18, Folios 50r, 49v. Codex Mashhad is an old codex of the Qurʾān, now mostly preserved in two manuscripts, MSS 18 and 4116, in the Āstān-i Quds Library, Mashhad, Iran. The first manuscript in 122 folios and the second in 129 folios together constitute more than 90% of the text of the Qurʾān.
Hijazi script (Arabic: خَطّ ٱَلحِجَازِيّ, romanized: khaṭṭ al-ḥijāzī) is the collective name for several early Arabic scripts that developed in the Hejaz (the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula), a region that includes the cities of Mecca and Medina. This type of script was already in use at the time of the emergence of ...
English: The Leningrad Codex from an old fascimile edition. This file includes the front cover and initial folios with colophon that appear before the biblical text begins with Genesis. Date