Arabic MS 829A (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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Summary of Contents: A work on Logic by the priest Buṭrus bin Buṭrus bin Isḥaq al-Tūlāti of Aleppo. The manuscript is not dated but Mingana puts the date of production around 1750 CE based on the handwriting.Language(s): Arabic
Title: Kitāb al-ManṭiqTitle: كتاب المنطقLanguage(s): ArabicAccording to Mingana, the author is the same as Buṭrus al-Tūlāwi, a Maronite priest who died in Aleppo in 1745. He ws educated in a Maronite school of Rome. (Cf. Catalogue Manuscrits Auteurs Arabes Chrétiens Depuis L'Islam by Louis Cheikho (Bayrūt: Maṭbaʻat al-Ābāʼ al-Yasūʻīyīn 1924), page. 76.
The work is divided into eigtheen baḥths, subdivided into an unequal number of faṣls.
Folios 1b-4b: index.
Folios 213a-216a: a definition of philosophical and theological terms. Headed التعاريف الموجودة في هذا المجلد
Incipit: Folio 5a: البحث الاول في موضوع المنطق الفصل الاول في ماهة المنطق وتعريفهExplicit: تم المنطق وابوابه والله اعلم تمPhysical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 217 folios (217+[1]; no flyleaves)Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 160 mm.Dimensions (written): 165 × 100 mm.Foliation: Modern foliation in Eastern Arabic numerals in pencil. Last leaf of the collation is not foliated.Collation
Quires of 8 and 10 leaves. Catchwords on each verso.Condition
Water damage. Historic repair on folio 55.Layout
Rubricated headings. Broad margins.
Hand(s)
Written by two clear Syrian hands of around 1750 CE. One hand is rather handsome and the other is negligent.
Decoration
Diagrams on folios 41a, 55b.
Chapter headings with simple ink decorations in black and red, e.g. on folios 127a and 164b.
History
Origin: It was produced probably in the 18th century CE in ; Syria.Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880.
Previously in the collection of Alphonse Mingana (1881-1937), Syriac and Christian Arabic scholar and Chaldean priest who acquired his collection in the 1920 in Egypt, Syria and Iraq.
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843–1908 in 1908 to John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Description based on A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934), no. 8, revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.Availability
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Bibliography
On Mingana's manuscript collection, see The Mingana Collection, University of Birmingham.Funding of Cataloguing
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