Dmut Kušṭa
Mandaean religious text
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It is also known as Tafsir Rba ḏ-Dmut Kušṭa ("The Great Explanation/Tafsir of the Image of Truth").
Manuscripts
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University holds a manuscript of the text, catalogued as MS Asiat. Misc. C 12. The scroll was copied by Yahia Ram Zihrun, son of Mhatam in 1818 in Qurna. It was acquired by E. S. Drower in 1954.
Manuscripts of Tafsir Rba ḏ-Dmut Kušṭa from the Rbai Rafid Collection (RRC), held by Rbai Rafid al-Sabti in Nijmegen, Netherlands, are:
- RRC 2V: Copied in 1240 A.H. (1824-5 A.D.).
- RRC 2X: Copied in 1204 A.H. (1789-90 A.D.).
In 1969, Kurt Rudolph had also seen a copy of the text at a private library in Dora, Baghdad.
In 2002, a published version of Dmut Kušṭa in typeset Mandaic script has been published by Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki, a Mandaean living in Australia.
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Illustrations
MS Asiat. Misc. C 12 contains illustrations of various heavenly trees, which are named after (or identified with) uthras.
- Abatur Rama, as a date palm
- Habšaba, as a fig tree
- Yawar Ziwa, as a great cotton plant
- Yushamin, as a mulberry tree