Titles
- Title
- Transcription of a dirge recorded in Cairo
- Type
- supplied title
Description
- Original manuscript containing the transcription in Arabic of the dirge mentioned as text “A” edited in Kahle’s “Die Totenklage im heutigen Aegypten”. The text was recorded from es-Sitt Sayyida Ṣabra, Meʻaddida in Cairo, resident in Šāriʻ al-Šayḫ Salāma in Cairo and dictated to Sayyid Aḥmed ʻAbderraḥīm who wrote in Arabic. Paul Kahle later transliterated it in black ink and translated it in pencil.
Publication notes
- Publication notes
- Paul Kahle, “Die Totenklage im heutigen Ägypten”, in: «Eucharisterion. Studien zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments: Hermann Gunkel zum 60, Geburtstage, dem 23. Mai, 1922», ed. by Hans Schmidt, Göttingen 1923, pp. 346-397.
Languages
- Arabic
German
Medium
- paper
Archivistic typology and Extent
- Extent
- 24
- Archivistic typology
- leaf/leaves
Dimensions in mm
- Height
- 210
- Width
- 167