MS. Huntington 199 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: 8 works by 5 authors on the subjects of Christian writings, Jesus Christ, Non-canonical Gospels, Jacobites, Christianity, Homilies, and Prophets
1. ff. i-viii, 71-90, 92-94v
Author: Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, Bishop of el-Ashmunein, fl. 955-987
Title: Kitāb al-Majāmīʻ

A fragment [in Karshuni]

Language(s): Arabic [Karshuni]

References

Graf II, p. 307
[Payne-Smith 140 (1)]
2. ff. 94v-125v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Commentary on Injīl al-ṭufūlīyah

Defective

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 226
[Payne-Smith 140 (2)]
3. ff. 126r-137v
Author: Nūḥ, Ignatius, patriarch 1494-1509
Title: Amānat al-Yaʻāqibah alladhīn yusammūn al-Suryān
Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf IV, p. 10
[Payne-Smith 140 (3)]
4. ff. 137v-173v
Author: Nūḥ, Ignatius, patriarch 1494-1509
Title: Mīmar ʻalá al-amānah al-Suryānīyah
Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf IV, p. 10
[Payne-Smith 140 (4)]
5. ff. 173v-185v
Author: Nūḥ, Ignatius, patriarch 1494-1509
Title: Homily on the Annunciation [here ascribed to Yaʻqūb al-Baradāʻī ].
Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf IV, p. 10
[Payne-Smith 140 (5)]
6. ff. 186r-194v
Author: Isaac the Syrian
Title: Homily on the B.V.M.
Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 441
[Payne-Smith 140 (6)]
7. ff. 194v-205v
Author: John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407
Title: Homily on the B.V.M*. [Arabic.]

*Graf, more specifically, on the Annunciation.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 342
[Payne-Smith 140 (7)]
8. ff. 290r-292v
Author: Anonymous
Title: Commentary on Isaiahʼs vision of the Seraphim
Language(s): Arabic [Karshuni]

References

Graf II, p. 469.
[Payne-Smith 140 (11)]

Physical Description

Form: codex
31 ff. 21 ff. [Wanting ff. 100-110]. 12 ff. 37 ff. 13 ff. 9 ff. 12 ff. 3 ff.

History

Origin: n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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JISC

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