Item Summary

An anti-Christian polemical treatise by a convert, originally a Franciscan friar from Majorca.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تحفة الاديب في الرد على اهل الصليب / تأليف العالم المهتدي الشيخ عبد الله بن عبد الله الميورقي
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tuḥfat al-adīb fī al-radd ʻalá ahl al-ṣalīb / taʼlīf al-ʻālim al-muhtadī al-shaykh ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Mayūrqī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 973H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfb494m936
Publisher
[1875]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1875
Format
Manuscript
Extent
32 leaves : paper ; 237 x 161 (151 x 105) mm.
Provenance
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
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1521
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
The text proper starts on fol. 2b, fol. 1b-2a being a preface presenting the text to Sulṭān Aḥmad Khān (Aḥmad I, 14th Ottoman Sulṭān, 1590-1617) and a description of contents by Abū al-Ghayth Muḥammad al-Qashshāshī, written in the same hand. Long note in the margin of fol. 21a-b.
Collation: Paper, fol. 32 ; 1-3¹⁰ 4² ; horizontal catchword on the verso of each leaf ; collation notes in the same hand ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 long lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small casual script in black ink, with some use of red. Glazed European paper with watermark. Collation notes in the same hand.
Origin: Copied by Muḥammad ibn Salāmah in Rajab 1292 (colophon, fol. 32a).
Incipit: بسم ... وبه ثقتي وصلي الله علي ... تسليما يقول الفقير الي ربه سبحانه وتعالي ابو الغيث محمد القشاشي لما نظرت هذا التاليف العجيب وعلمت ما فيه من الاسلوب ... [2ب] ... وسلم قال المولف رحمه الله تعالي الحمد لله الذي خصنا بخير الاديان و جعلنا من امة الفرقان
Explicit: و انا ارجو ان اجمع لبشارات جميع الانبياء به كتابا مفردا لذلك علي وجه التفصيل وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل ولاحول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Polemics—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Islam—Apologetic works—Early works to 1800
Islam—Relations—Christianity
Conversion—Islam
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
68

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f1266767-79e0-4a96-9233-67627f235c0a/manifest