<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Coptic Grammar</dc:title><dc:date>19th century</dc:date><dc:language>cop</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript of a Coptic-Arabic grammar book</dc:description><dc:description>In Bohairic Coptic, Arabic</dc:description><dc:description>Script: Uncial Coptic script. Purple, teal, and black ink.</dc:description><dc:description>Some marginalia and later redactions. 5 leaves excised at the end of MS.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: 19th century leather binding with "Coptic &amp; Arabic Grammars" on spine.</dc:description><dc:description>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. Note on the inside of the front cover: “This volume contains a set of Coptic = Arabic Grammars. I obtained it from the Rev. Jn. Lieder at Cairo - 16th April 1858.” Contains a stamp from the Allan 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.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>