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.
Munāwī, ʻAbd al-Raʾūf ibn Tāj al-ʻĀrifīn, d. 1621.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 250
Image Count:
304
Abstract:
Commentary on Unmūdhaj al-labīb fī khaṣāʾiṣ al-Ḥabīb (on the virtues of the Prophet) of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Description:
Incipit of the matn compared with Ahlwardt 2577., Islamic binding, in black., Modern (19th century) naskhī, in red and black., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
On the pronunciation of the vowel fatḥah in the Koran.
Description:
Fair modern (ca. 1800) Yemenite naskhī, in red, green, and black., For the author's brother see Brockelmann, S II, p. 99., and Islamic binding, in brown, with flap.
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
Nīsābūrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, d. 1015 or 16.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 600
Image Count:
185
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Accounts, in prose and verse, of men and women who were, or pretended to be, seized with madness. and Copied in Ḥimṣ, Syria in A.H. 740 (A.D. 1340).
Description:
Compared with Berlin catalog 8328, the verses with which the incomplete Berlin copy begins are on leaf 6 verso of this manuscript., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap.