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Arundel Or 6
- Record Id:
- 032-003460680
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003460680
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100085754971.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171509364.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel Or 6
- Title:
- Rawḍat al-farīd wa-salwat al-waḥīd - روضة الفريد و سلوة الوحيد
- Additional Titles:
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The Garden of the Hermit and the Consolation of the Solitary
- Scope & Content:
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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 the Church Fathers and in combination with his command of literary Arabic style, this understudied tract has much to offer, not only pietistic Arabic-speaking Christians, but also scholars (cf. Swanson).
Spiritual and moral theology/ascetic tracts. 12 chapters.
Introduction, fols. 1r-6r (cf. Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, pp. 39-40).
ch. 1, on the creation of humans, fols. 6r-15v
ch. 2, on belief in the One, Pre-existent, Benefactor, fols. 16r-35r
ch. 3, on fear of God, fols. 35v-43r
ch. 4, on continous prayer, fols. 43r-52r
ch. 5, on keeping fasts, holding ones tongue etc., fols. 52v-60v
ch. 6, on patience and sufferance, fols. 61r-71r
ch. 7, on love and mildness, fols. 71v-82v
ch. 8, on chastity, fols. 83r-91r
ch. 9, on humbleness, fols. 91v-100v
ch. 10, on forgiveness, fols. 101r-110v
ch. 11, on renunciation and contentment, fols. 111r-119r
ch. 12, on practicing righteousness and virtuous living, fols. 119v-161r
colophon, fols. 161v-162r
Contents:
(1) Romanised author's name: Simʿān ibn Kalīl ibn Maqāra (سمعان ابن كليل ابن مقارة). Romanised title Rawḍat al-farīd wa-salwat al-waḥīd (روضه الفريد وسلوة الوحيد.; , f. 1r);
Begins (f. 1r lines 1-3):
بسم الله الحيّ القديم الازلى
روضة الفريد وسلوة الوحيد تاليف الابّ سمعان ابن
كليل ابن مقارة المترهب بدير القدّيس انبا يوحنّا برّية الاسقيط .
In the same of God the Living, the Pre-existent, the Eternal
The Garden of the Hermit and the Consolation of the Solitary; a composition by Father Simʿān ibn
Kalīl ibn Maqāra who became a monk in the monastery of St Anba John in the Scetis Desert.
Colophon: fols. 161v-162r; see Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus, p. 40.
The dating of the manuscript is 23 Adār 7107*/Ramaḍān 1007 hijra = 1599 CE. The first date is seemingly the Byzantine World Era.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003460680
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003460680
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. 162.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100171509364.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1599
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1599
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: ca. 250 mm x 130-140 mm leaf [ca 150mm x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Lines per page: 19lines
Script: Naskh. The name of the scribe is Talja [?] ibn al-marḥūm al-khūrī Ḥawrān ibn al-qass Mūsā fī madīnat Ḥamāh al-maḥrūsa.
Ink: Black-grayish ink, with rubricated headings and text dividers (only in the beginning) in dark red
Decoration: Sparsely decorated; ribbon-floral pattern on fol. 1r.; four small crosses arranged in a diamond-pattern or similar figures serve to keep the alignment straight after rubrics or to mark a new text unit.
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Waterstains, wormholes, etc. Good condition
Marginalia: few notes
Quires: Mostly quinions
Quire marks: Each new quire is marked with Arabic letters in left upper corner (not on later quires)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Soc. Reg. Lord. ex dono HENR. HOWARD C. Norfolciensis (i.e. the 2nd Early of Arundel)
- Finding Aids:
- Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium: Codices Arabici, (London, The British Museum, 1846-71), pp. 38-40.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)