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Or 6817
- Record Id:
- 032-003461553
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003461553
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100085836347.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171516430.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 6817
- Title:
- al-Murshid - المرشد
- Additional Titles:
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The Guide
- Scope & Content:
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This still largely unpublished tract was composed by a Western Syriac (Jacobite) physician and scholar commonly known as Abū Naṣr Yaḥyā ibn Jarīr al-Takrītī (d. 1103/4 CE), who seems to have been active in Mayyāfāriqīn in Upper Mesopotamia. It is a theological work in which the author explains common Christian topics, such as Trinity and Christology, claiming for instance, that differences between the Christian denominations are only nominal. Like many Eastern Christian theologians, Yaḥya draws extensively on the Bible in his arguments, as well as from the Church Fathers and Greek philosophy. It is also important as a source on Christian-Muslim relations.
The text is the Kitāb al-miṣbāḥ al-murshid ilā al-falāḥ wa-al-najāḥ (كتاب المصباح المرشد الى الفلاح والنجاح) also know as Kitāb al-Murshid (كتاب المرشد), a theological work divided into 54 chapters by Yuḥannā (also: Yaḥyā; يوحنا بن جرير التكريتي) ibn Yarīr al-Takrītī
The text contains a colophon on f 289v.
The manuscript is dated 759 AH (1357-8 CE).
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003461553
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003461553
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. 290
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100171516430.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1357
- End Date:
- 1358
- Date Range:
- 1357-58
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: ca. 170 mm x 120 mm leaf [ca 140 x 110 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: ca. lines per page: 17 lines
Script: Naskh. There are at least two hands writing on different paper; the second hand seems to supplement the first, as there are certain overlaps which are later crossed over. Whereas the first quires contain passages from both hands, the second hand wrote most of the codex including the colophon.
Ink: Black and dark-brown ink, with rubricated headings in red.Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Waterstains, wormholes, etc. Generally good condition; fols. 1-3 repaired; half page missing on fol. 1v; half of fol. 22 is gone. The backside or lower part of a folio is sometimes left blank by the first scribe.
Marginalia: a few notes.
Quires: normally quinions.
Quire marks: new quire marked with Arabic letters in the upper left corner.
Para-textual: Reader’s note on fol. f. 290r, dated 1778 CE (1192 hijra)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bought by Murad Baroody, 11 April 1908.
- Finding Aids:
- Ellis, A. G. and Edwards, E. Descriptive List of the Arabic manuscripts acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894, London: British Museum, 1912), p. 70.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)