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'La chiesa Alessandrina fondata da S. Marco...'

MS. Marshall 18

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Title

'La chiesa Alessandrina fondata da S. Marco...'

Shelfmark

MS. Marshall 18

Summary

'La chiesa Alessandrina fondata da S. Marco, la quale é la chiesa delle Copti di Egitto, fedelmente rappresentata in quanto alla sua dottrina e riti e nel Cairo medesimo composta nelli anni 1672 e 1673 et in Constantinopoli perfecta nell anno 1674 dal P. Gio. Michele Vanslebio, di Erfordia, Domenicano' (fol. 1). Apparently Johann Michel Wansleben's autograph of his shorter and in detail partly independent work published in French at Paris (1677). The work, in five parts, is preceded by:

A Latin acrostic on the author by dr. Demetrio Pepano, 1674 (fol. 2)

A Latin epigram by [dr. Edward?] Bernardus (fol. 3)

An index of Arabic authors cited (fol. 7)

An index of chapters (fol. 8)

At fol. 165v is a 'Catalogo delli santi padri e scrittori illustri della chiesa orientale li quale ... hanno illustrato la religione Christiana insieme con un esatto catalogo di tutte lor opere, intieramente cauato dal mio Abulbaracat', and at fol. 174 a 'Catalogo di tutti li canoni e concilii ... che la chiesa Copta riceue e tiene per autentici... cauato dal Abulbaracat'.

(fols. 203-12 are blank).

Date

Written in 1674 by J.M. Wansleben

Language

Italian

Physical facet

On paper, bound in contemporary red calf

Physical extent

212 Leaves

Custodial history

'Ho finito di scriuer quest' opera in Constantinopoli li 15 di Giugno 1674 un giouedi, auanti mezzo giorno, dopo che l'haveno cominciato li 10 del mese passato. Vanslebius' (fol. 212v).

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