Rawḍat al-farīd wa-salwat al-waḥīd - روضة الفريد و سلوة الوحيد
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The current text, composed by the Egyptian Simʿān ibn Kalīl (d. ca. 1240 CE), provides a guide to true Christian life. Not only does is make accessible ascetic literature for a new audience, it is also composed in rhymed prose. The author was well versed in the Scriptures and in the tradition of...
Manuscript completed by an anonymous scribe on 3 Dhū al-Ḥijja 712/4 April 1313 in part in Aleppo (see colophon to Item 1; f. 9v, lines 5-7). The final colophon in the manuscript is dated late Sha‘bān 711/early January 1312, which perhaps indicates that the manuscript is bound out of its original...