Item Summary

An attack on Christianity and Christians by a convert to Islam.

Descriptive Information

Title
النصيحة الايمانية فى فضيحة الملة النصرانية / للشيخ نصر بن يحيى بن عيسى بن سعيد المتطبب.
Transliterated Title
al-Naṣīḥah al-īmānīyah fī faḍīḥat al-millah al-Naṣrānīyah / lil-Shaykh Naṣr ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻĪsá ibn Saʻīd al-Mutaṭabbib.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 305L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8049gj39d
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1861
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 220 x 155 (142 x 80) mm bound to 221 x 164 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1537.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, pp. 351/2.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 207
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2208/9.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Text is followed by 5 lines of verse (fol. 60a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 60 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in reddish-brown.
Description: Watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet initials "AG") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Wednesday 11 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1277 (fol. 59b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي رفع منارالاسلام مکانا عليا ووفق لاتباعه من اختاره وكان عنده مرضيا وانقذ من مظهر الكفر والطفيان من ارادسعادته على وفق سبق العناية ...
Colophon: قدتم نقلها کتابة يوم الاربعاء احد عشرخلت من شهرذي الحجة الحرام سنة 1277
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and red paper with block-pressed design. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
132

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cefe0bbb-7fdb-4033-b9bb-748fec99a532/manifest