Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Apologetic treatise]. Keşf ül-esrar fi ilzam ıl-Yahut ve ıl-ahbar.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1183H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dct722hn586
Publisher
1194 [1780]
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Date Created
1780
Format
Manuscript
Extent
92 leaves : paper ; 220 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Stamps (fol. (i)a and 92a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
References
Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 173, 174
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b- 67b leaves: [Apologetic treatise]. Treatise which attempts to prove the claims of Muḥammad from the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments.
2. 68b-92a: Keşf ül-esrar fi ilzam ıl-Yahut ve ıl-ahbar / Yusuf bin Ebi Ubeyd ed-Deyyan. Treatise on the reasons for the truthfulness of the claims of Muḥammad based on the Old Testament.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 92 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Apologetic treatise] Copy completed 8 Rabīʻ al-Akhir 1194 by Muḥammad Saʻīd (fol. 67b) -- [Keşf ül-esrar] Copied 1194 by Muḥammad Saʻīd Khayrīzādah (fol. 92a).
Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله ... اما بعد بو احقر عبد ملک منان و احوج خلق مستعان
Incipit (text 1): حمد بى حد و ثناى بى عد اول حلىم قدىم و علىم و کرىمه اولسو نکم

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Apologetic works—Early works to 1800
Islam—Relations—Judaism—Early works to 1800
Islam—Relations—Christianity—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
200

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f5d254c3-674c-4906-b968-505c056d602c/manifest