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.
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.
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