18 Manuscripts From Dayr Mār Mīkhāʼīl In Biskintā, Lebanon, Are Now Cataloged In Reading Room
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18 manuscripts from Dayr Mār Mīkhāʼīl in Biskintā, Lebanon, are now cataloged in Reading Room
Posted: 2024-05-23Cataloging is complete for 18 manuscripts from Dayr Mār Mīkhāʼīl (MKLB), the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Michael in Biskintā, Lebanon. The collection ranges from the 17th century to the 19th and is almost entirely Arabic, with one manuscript including some Greek written in Arabic script (MKLB 00010). The contents are primarily liturgical, theological, and grammatical, but there is also an early example of a treatise on logic by the 17th-century Muslim author Qāsim al-Khānī (MKLB 00007). One unique find is an otherwise unknown apology for Catholicism by the Coptic Catholic priest Yūḥannā Qudsī al-Ṭūkhī, written in the early 19th century (MKLB 00003). View now
Image caption: 18th-century copy of a rare 10th-century philosophical text by the Egyptian author Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, published in English under the title Affliction's physic and the cure of sorrow. (MKLB 00016)
