Tract in refutation of the claim of the Jews that the Messiah had not yet come.
Description:
Composed after 1700 (cf. leaf 138 recto, middle, where it is stated that "it has now elapsed more than 1700 years" since the coming of Jesus., Fair modern (18th century) naskhī, in red and black., Islamic binding, in black., No. 3 of 5 titles bound together., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Followed by two letters by Silvester, patriarch of Antioch to an English merchant, 1733 (leaf 12 recto) and 1732 (leaf 13 recto), and an edict of the synod (majmaʻ) of Constantinople against Euthymius Ṣayfī, bishop of Tyre and Sidon, 1718 (leaf 18 verso). and Polemical correspondence with an English merchant named Sherman (?), in 1734.
Description:
Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., For the author see Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, III, 134., Islamic binding, in black., No. 4 of 5 titles bound together., On Euthymius Ṣayfī see Graf, III, 179., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Name):
Euthymius Ṣayfī,--Bishop of Tyre and Sidon, Sherman, and Silvester, Patriarch of Antioch, d. 1766
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Published / Created:
1755
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 349
Image Count:
45
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Copied in A.D. 1755., Followed by 2 leaves of notes., Followed by: ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī's introduction to his translation of the Psalms (leaf 11 recto); 24 ethical maxims, ascribed to St. Gregory of Nyssa (leaf 14 verso); and other pieces., and Questions and answers, ascribed to St. Basil and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For al-Anṭākī's version of the Psalms, cf. Graf, I, 116., For the ethical maxims, cf. Graf, I, 344, 608 (where, however, reference is made to Berlin catalog, 10181 (16), which is a different text)., and No. 5 of 5 titles bound together.
Subject (Name):
Anṭākī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl, 11th cent. and Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394.
Three tracts dealing with the Ismaʻilis and the Karmatians: an extract from Kitāb manāhij al-tawassul fī mabāhij al-tarassul; an untitled collection of 4 sermons, which, although undated, are probably all contemporary; and 2 fragments of a conversation between Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Bākir, the fifth Imām, and an unidentified Khālid ibn Zayd al-Juʾfy.
Modern 19th century naskhī, in red and black., Presented to Edward Elbridge Salisbury by Henry A. DeForest. Presented to Yale by Salisbury in 1870., and The first text in this volume was extracted from a book obtained by the Rev. Eli Smith from Mekhaîl Meshâka of Damascus. The second text was obtained through the courtesy of Louis von Wildenbruch, Prussian Consul General of Syria (died before Oct. 25, 1849), whose dragoman, Mr. Catafago, found it near Aleppo. The third text was also obtained through von Wildenbruch.
Subject (Name):
DeForest, Henry A.--Presentation inscription to E. Salisbury and Salisbury, Edward Elbridge,--1814-1901--Presentation inscription from H. DeForest
Subject (Topic):
Theology--Sects--Ismaʻili and Theology--Sects--Karmatian
Commentary on ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá (tract on the principles of faith) of Muḥammad al-Sanūsī. The beginnig of the work only.
Alternative Title:
al-Manhaj al-farīd fī maʻrifat ʻilm al-tawḥīd
Description:
Loose leaves., Modern (19th century) Maghribī (Sudanese) hand., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and The matn is the same (with longer titulature) as in Berlin catalog 2006.
Subject (Name):
Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, ca. 1427-ca. 1490. ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá. and Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf,--ca. 1427-ca. 1490.--ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawḥīd al-ṣughrá.
Leaves 117-118, containing a supplementary prayer by a later hand, dated A.H. 1282 (A.D. 1865). and Prayers for the Prophet.
Alternative Title:
Dalāʾil al-khayrāt
Description:
Good naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwāns in colors., Loose in Islamic binding, in red, with flap., Marginalia., Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949., and With drawings, in color, of the holy places in Medina on leaves 25 verso and 26 recto.