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31 works by 17 authors

1. ff. iiir-viiv
Title: Synaxarium of the Coptic Church, in Arabic.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205 For comment on B.ʼs reading of the owner/scribeʼs name, and date of copying see Sidarus Ibn ar-Rāhibs Leben und Werk (1975), p. 94 footnotes 18 and 19

Language(s): Arabic

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Graf I, p. 496
[UAC. 38 [(1) in Beestonʼs list of contents*]
2. f. x
Author: Anonymous
Title: Sharḥ al-amānāt al-urtuduksīyah

A brief exposition of Trinitarian doctrine

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

f. ixv is an ornate title page to this and the foregoing work

Language(s): Arabic

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Christian Appendix Sermons and Theological Treatises
[UAC. 38 [(2) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
3. ff. xir-xviiiv
Author: Paulus [Būlus] al-Rāhib al-Anṭākī fl. 13th cent.
Title: Risālah [letter to a Muslim friend in Sidon].

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

lacuna on f. xvv and ff. xviiiv and 1r contain a "homily in an ignorant scribble"

Language(s): Arabic

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Graf II, p. 75
[UAC. 38 [(3) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]
4. ff. 2r-81r
Author: Ibn al-Ṭayyib, al-Rashīd Abū al-Khair, fl. 1204-45.
Title: Diryāq al-ʻuqūl fī ʻilm al-uṣūl.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

f. 81v has short note entitled Ṣifat wuḍūʼ al-īmān ḥasab mā dAllāhu Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAmr al-Rāhib

Language(s): Arabic

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Graf II, p. 345
[UAC. 38 [(4) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
5. ff. 82r-95v
Author: Paulus [Būlus] al-Būshī 13th cent.
Title: A treatise on the knowledge of the one God.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 359
[UAC. 38 [(5) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
6. ff. 95v-99r
Author: Ibn al-Ṭayyib, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd Allāh, al-ʻIrāqī 11th cent.
Title: Maqālah fī al-tauḥīd wa-al-tathlīth.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

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Graf II, pp. 170-76
[UAC. 38 [(6) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
7. ff. 99v-105r
Author: Ibn al-Ṭayyib, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd Allāh, al-ʻIrāqī 11th cent.
Title: Maqālah fī al-tathlīth wa-al-tauḥīd.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

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Graf II, p. 172
[UAC. 38 [(7) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
8. ff. 105v-109v
Author: John Philoponus [= Yaḥyá al-Naḥwī] 6th cent.
Title: Dalālah ʻalá ḥudūth al-ʻālam [abstracts only (maʻānī) of the 3 maqālahs of the work].

Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205; B. fails to notice that Graf has recorded this item under Yaḥyá al-Naḥwī

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 418
[UAC. 38 [(8) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
9. ff. 110r-111r
Author: Ibn al-Rāhib, Abū Shākir, 13th cent.
Title: Maqālah fī ḥadath al-ʻālam wa-qidam al-ṣāniʻ, in 3 faṣl.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205 Sidarus Ibn ar-Rāhibs Leben und Werk (l975), pp. 162-3, thinks it probable that this treatise represents the first draft (Erstfassung), or extracts from it, of Question 1 of the authorʼs Kitāb al-Burhān

Language(s): Arabic

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Graf II, pp. 428-34
[UAC. 38 [(9) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
10. ff. 111v-113r
Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq 808-873 or 877.
Title: Fī kaifīyat idrāk ḥaqīqat al-adyān.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 128
[UAC. 38 [(10) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]
11. ff. 113v-114r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Kalām li-baʻd al-ābāʼ al-fuḍalāʼ fī aṣnāf siyāsat al-Bārī [on the varieties of Godʼs providence].

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Christian Appendix Sermons and Theological Treatises
[UAC. 38 [(11) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
12. ff. 114v-115v
Author: Gregory Theologus of Nazianzus 329-389.
Title: Homily on bodily pleasures and the soulʼs rebirth entitled Maqālah fī malādhdh al-jasad wa-mīlād al-nafs [tr. by Antonius].

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205 acc. to Sidarus Ibn ar-Rāhibs Leben und Werk (l975), p. 93 footnote 18, this work corresponds to Payne-Smith 137 (7) = MS. Huntington 22, f. 39r-

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 332
[UAC. 38 [(12) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
13. ff. 116r-117r
Author: Basil the Great 329-379.
Title: An epistle to Epiphanius "fī ṣifat taṣawwur al-ʻaql" [not otherwise recorded, and so of uncertain authenticity].

Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

[but MS. appears to read [??](?) = ? Amphilochius]

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 328
[UAC. 38 [(13) in Beestonʼs list on contents]
14. f. 117v
Author: Basil the Great 329-379.
Title: An epistle on "taqṣīr man ẓanna fī nafsihi idrāk al-maujūdāt" [presumably an extract from one of his books "against Eunomius"].

Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf I, p. 319
[UAC. 38 [(14) in Beestonʼ list of contents]]
15. ff. 118r-119r
Author: Anonymous
Title: The meeting of ʻAbdishoʼ the Nestorian muṭrān, Abū Qurrah the Melchite bishop, and Abū Rābiṭah the Jacobite, in the presence of an Eastern vizier, who asked each for a non-polemical statement of his beliefs.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Graf has Abū Rāʼiṭah for Abū Rābiṭah

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 23
[UAC. 38 [(15) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
16. ff. 119v-124v
Author: Arqādi, ʻAlī ibn Dāʼūd,.
Title: A treatise on the essential doctrinal unity of Nestorians, Jacobites and Melchites.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 132
[UAC. 38 [(16) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
17. ff. 131r-160v
Author: Agathon [Īlīyā al-Ashall], muṭrān of Homs 13th cent.
Title: Īḍāḥ al-īmān wa-sharf al-kahanūt.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

**date on f. 160v; B.ʼs dating is amended to 1549 by Sidarus Ibn ar-Rāhibs Leben und Werk (1975), p. 94 footnote 19

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 270
[UAC. 38 [(17) in Beestonʼs list of contents]]
18. ff. 161r-190v
Author: Elias of Nisibis 975-1049<.
Title: Majālis.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 180
[UAC. 38 [(18) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]
19. f. 191r, v
Author: Elias of Nisibis [?].
Title: A passage allegedly a risālah of Elias, but perhaps spurious [in a different hand from the rest of the MS.].

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, pp. 177-189
[UAC. 38 [(19) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
20. ff. 196r-199r
Author: Elias of Nisibis.
Title: Risālah fī waḥdānīyat al-khāliq wa-tathlīth aqānīmihi.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 182
[UAC. 38 [(20) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]
21. ff. 199v-200v
Author: Elias of Nisibis.
Title: Maqālah fī naʻīm al-ākhirah.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 184
[UAC. 38 [(21) in Beestonʼs list of contents]]
22. ff. 201r-205v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A homily against fornication.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf IV, p. 40
[UAC. 38 [(22) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
23. ff. 206r-210v
Author: Severus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ 10th cent.
Title: A risālah containing a general exhortation to the Christian life, allegedly delivered on his death-bed.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, pp. 301-317
[UAC. 38 [(23) in Beestonʼs list of contents]]
24. ff. 211v-231v
Author: Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Muʼtaman Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, 13th cent.
Title: Ādāb al-kanīsah.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 414
[UAC. 38 [(24) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
25. ff. 232r-239r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Sirr al-thālūth fī khidmat al-kahanūt.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf IV, p. 130
[UAC. 38 [(25) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
26. ff. 240r-243v
Author: Anonymous
Title: A homily in explanation of the Liturgy and on the necessity of preparation before Communion.**

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

**followed by a table for finding the day of the week on which the first day of the Muslim month will begin

Language(s): Arabic

References

Christian Appendix Sermons and Theological Treatises
[UAC. 38 [(26) in Beestonʼs list of contents]]
27. ff. 244r-245r
Author: Anonymous
Title: A homily for the first week in Advent, followed (f. 245r) by a table of unlucky days in the Coptic year.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Christian Appendix Sermons and Theological Treatises
[UAC. 38 [(27) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
28. ff. 245v-248v
Title: Cyrillus ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Church d. 1243 A homily on the meaning of the holy fast, delivered in 1236.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, pp. 360-67
[UAC. 38 [(28) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
29. ff. 249r-250r
Author: Ibn al-Rāhib, Abū Shākir, 13th cent.
Title: Kitāb al-Shifāʼ [extract only on the difference between the words Allāh and al-Ilah].

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205 cf. Sidarus Ibn ar-Rāhibs Leben und Werk (1975), pp. 94, 95

Language(s): Arabic

References

Graf II, p. 431
[UAC. 38 [(29) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
30. f. 250v
Author: Anonymous
Title: An anecdote about a meeting in Baghdad between a man of Byzantium and Ibn al-Ṭayyib, in the presence of al-Kindī.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Tales
[UAC. 38 [(30) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]
31. ff. 251r-259v
Title: A collection of prayers.

*Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1953, pp. 197-205 f. 259v bears colophon for the work Diryāq al-ʻuqūl fī ʻilm al-uṣūl

Language(s): Arabic

References

Christian Appendix Prayers
[UAC. 38 [(31) in Beestonʼs* list of contents]]

Physical Description

Form: codex
5 ff. 1 f. 8 ff. 80 ff. 14 ff. 5 ff. 7 ff. 5 ff. 2 ff. 3 ff. 2 ff. 2 ff 2 ff. 1 f. 2 ff. 6 ff. 30 ff. 30 ff. 1 f. 4 ff. 2 ff. 5 ff. 5 ff. 21 ff. 8 ff. 4 ff. 2 ff. 44 ff. 2 ff. 1 f. 9 ff.

History

Origin: 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550**. 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550 1550

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of Robert Huntington, d. 1701.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1693.

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