31 works by 17 authors

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31 works by 17 authors

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MS. Huntington 240

Language

Arabic

1. ff. iiir-viiv Title: Synaxarium of the Coptic Church, in Arabic.

2. f. x Author: Anonymous Title: Sharḥ al-amānāt al-urtuduksīyah

3. ff. xir-xviiiv Author: Paulus [Būlus] al-Rāhib al-Anṭākī fl. 13th cent. Title: Risālah [letter to a Muslim friend in Sidon].

4. ff. 2r-81r Author: Ibn al-Ṭayyib, al-Rashīd Abū al-Khair, fl. 1204-45. Title: Diryāq al-ʻuqūl fī ʻilm al-uṣūl.

5. ff. 82r-95v Author: Paulus [Būlus] al-Būshī 13th cent. Title: A treatise on the knowledge of the one God.

6. ff. 95v-99r Author: Ibn al-Ṭayyib, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd Allāh, al-ʻIrāqī 11th cent. Title: Maqālah fī al-tauḥīd wa-al-tathlīth.

7. ff. 99v-105r Author: Ibn al-Ṭayyib, Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd Allāh, al-ʻIrāqī 11th cent. Title: Maqālah fī al-tathlīth wa-al-tauḥīd.

8. ff. 105v-109v Author: John Philoponus [= Yaḥyá al-Naḥwī] 6th cent. Title: Dalālah ʻalá ḥudūth al-ʻālam [abstracts only (maʻānī) of the 3 maqālahs of the work].

9. ff. 110r-111r Author: Ibn al-Rāhib, Abū Shākir, 13th cent. Title: Maqālah fī ḥadath al-ʻālam wa-qidam al-ṣāniʻ, in 3 faṣl.

10. ff. 111v-113r Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq 808-873 or 877. Title: Fī kaifīyat idrāk ḥaqīqat al-adyān.

11. ff. 113v-114r Author: Anonymous Title: Kalām li-baʻd al-ābāʼ al-fuḍalāʼ fī aṣnāf siyāsat al-Bārī [on the varieties of Godʼs providence].

12. ff. 114v-115v Author: Gregory Theologus of Nazianzus 329-389. Title: Homily on bodily pleasures and the soulʼs rebirth entitled Maqālah fī malādhdh al-jasad wa-mīlād al-nafs [tr. by Antonius].

13. ff. 116r-117r Author: Basil the Great 329-379. Title: An epistle to Epiphanius "fī ṣifat taṣawwur al-ʻaql" [not otherwise recorded, and so of uncertain authenticity].

14. f. 117v Author: Basil the Great 329-379. Title: An epistle on "taqṣīr man ẓanna fī nafsihi idrāk al-maujūdāt" [presumably an extract from one of his books "against Eunomius"].

15. ff. 118r-119r Author: Anonymous Title: The meeting of ʻAbdishoʼ the Nestorian muṭrān, Abū Qurrah the Melchite bishop, and Abū Rābiṭah the Jacobite, in the presence of an Eastern vizier, who asked each for a non-polemical statement of his beliefs.

16. ff. 119v-124v Author: Arqādi, ʻAlī ibn Dāʼūd,. Title: A treatise on the essential doctrinal unity of Nestorians, Jacobites and Melchites.

17. ff. 131r-160v Author: Agathon [Īlīyā al-Ashall], muṭrān of Homs 13th cent. Title: Īḍāḥ al-īmān wa-sharf al-kahanūt.

18. ff. 161r-190v Author: Elias of Nisibis 975-1049<. Title: Majālis.

19. f. 191r, v Author: Elias of Nisibis [?]. Title: A passage allegedly a risālah of Elias, but perhaps spurious [in a different hand from the rest of the MS.].

20. ff. 196r-199r Author: Elias of Nisibis. Title: Risālah fī waḥdānīyat al-khāliq wa-tathlīth aqānīmihi.

21. ff. 199v-200v Author: Elias of Nisibis. Title: Maqālah fī naʻīm al-ākhirah.

22. ff. 201r-205v Author: Anonymous Title: A homily against fornication.

23. ff. 206r-210v Author: Severus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ 10th cent. Title: A risālah containing a general exhortation to the Christian life, allegedly delivered on his death-bed.

24. ff. 211v-231v Author: Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Muʼtaman Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, 13th cent. Title: Ādāb al-kanīsah.

25. ff. 232r-239r Author: Anonymous Title: Sirr al-thālūth fī khidmat al-kahanūt.

26. ff. 240r-243v Author: Anonymous Title: A homily in explanation of the Liturgy and on the necessity of preparation before Communion.**

27. ff. 244r-245r Author: Anonymous Title: A homily for the first week in Advent, followed (f. 245r) by a table of unlucky days in the Coptic year.

28. ff. 245v-248v Title: Cyrillus ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Church d. 1243 A homily on the meaning of the holy fast, delivered in 1236.

29. ff. 249r-250r Author: Ibn al-Rāhib, Abū Shākir, 13th cent. Title: Kitāb al-Shifāʼ [extract only on the difference between the words Allāh and al-Ilah].

30. f. 250v Author: Anonymous Title: An anecdote about a meeting in Baghdad between a man of Byzantium and Ibn al-Ṭayyib, in the presence of al-Kindī.

31. ff. 251r-259v Title: A collection of prayers.

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