Vatican Manuscripts from the Borg.ar Fond

Currently there are 76 of the 278 signatures in the collection digitized. The Arabic collection is one of the larger non-Latin collections within the Borgiani, second only to the Chinese in terms of size. It has particular strengths in Arab-Christian works, including two particularly old copies of the Gospel in Arabic: Borg.ar.71 from the 11th-12th C and Borg.ar.95 from the 9th C. F.60v from the later one can be seen to the right. In the 17th C the collection grew through acquisitions from the personal collection of Card. Camillo Massimo (1620- 1677) and also from the closing of the Maronite College in Ravenna in 1665.

There is an early catalogue in cards of the collection in Vat.lat.13206, ff. 300r-343v, of Borg.ar.1-29, 31-41, 100, 213, written by Francesco Mari (1873-1934). Furthermore Borg.lat.767, ff. 117r- 124r, has a handwritten topographical inventory of the Arabic codices of the Museo Borgiano di Propaganda.

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. (2011). Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca vaticana. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. pp. 360-361

Borg.ar.22 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.23, Quran (17th C)

Fragment, misbound

Borg.ar.30, Yahya b. Ibrahim b. 'Abd as-Salam az-Zangani Tosrif al-'Izzi (1323)

Borg.ar.40, Quran (17th C)

Borg.ar.41, Acts of the Apostles, Epistula ad Laodicenses (16th-17th C)

Borg.ar.43, Quran, fragment (17th C)

Borg.ar.51, Quran (12th C)

Maghrebi (Spanish?) script

Borg.ar.51.pt.A

Incipit: Nota primo. Stimo questo codice d'Alcorano in Pergamena essen antichissimo

Borg.ar.53, Quran, Pericope of the Quran, etc (1682-1683)

1094 AH (started December 1682)

Borg.ar.59 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.61, Quran (17th C)

Borg.ar.63, كتاب الابركسيس (1741)

Incipit: كتاب الابركسيس وهو عمال الرسل القديسين ثم الرسايل المختصة ببولس الرسول ثم يعقوب وبطرس ويوحنا ويعوذا (؟) منخ من على كتاب طبع حدثاً بمونية حلب المحمية المجمعة سنة الف سبعماية وسبعة مسيحية وهذه النسخة ينسخت سنة 1741 مسيحية

Incipit taken from Catalogue entry. Described as a praxapostolos, which contains the acts and epistles of the Apostles. Same scribe as Borg.ar.59

Borg.ar.64, Quran (17th C)

Borg.ar.65, Abu Hamid Gawahir al-quran (16th C)

Borg.ar.71, Gospel (11th-12th C)

Borg.ar.75, François de Romorantin Ayqān al-ṭarīq īlā malkūt al-samawāt (18th C)

Incipit: بسم الاب... نبتدى بتوفيق الله بتحرير الكتاب المدعو ايقان الطريق الهادي الى ملكوت السموات دياجة الكتاب والله المهدى... قد صحح ان البكآ والنوح يحق

An apologetic text against Islam

Borg.ar.78, Quran (18h C)

Borg.ar.79 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.91 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.95

Borg.ar.97 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.98 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.99 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.105 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.116 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.117 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.119 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.125 (Upgraded to HQ), Abu'l-Hasan Ahmad b. 'Abdallah al-Bakri Al-Anwar

Borg.ar.127, Abu 'Omar b. 'Abdallah b. Muhammad ibn Abdalbarr al-Kafi fi'l-fiqh 'ala madhab al-imam Malik b. Anas (1445)

dated "September 849", probably Jumada II, started Sept 8, 1445

Borg.ar.128 (Upgraded to HQ), Abu'l-Qasim ibn Bashkuwal al-Qurtubi (1304)

dated Rabi II 22, 704 AH (Nov 22, 1304)

Borg.ar.129

Borg.ar.130, De Excellentiis institutionum importoris statutis diversis sessionibus cum suis primis coadiutoribus, que inter canonica legibus connumerantur

title taken from f.Vv

Borg.ar.132, (c. 1430-1440)

Borg.ar.133 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.135 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.155, François de Romorantin Ayqān al-ṭarīq īlā malkūt al-samawāt (18th C)

An apologetic text against Islam

Borg.ar.163 (Upgraded to HQ), al-Mugadala ma'a al-Yahud, Masa'il Ibn Qarah, etc (14th C)

one of the texts is dated Rab'i I 21, 792 AH (March 9, 1390)

Borg.ar.165 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.168 (Upgraded to HQ), Kamaladdin Abu'l-fadl Ga'far b. Taglib Badr as-safir wa-uns al-musafir (1388)

Dated Rab'i I 7, 790 AH (March 16, 1388), volume 1 of 2

Borg.ar.172 (Upgraded to HQ), Legends of the Prophets, (qisas al-anbiya) (15th-16th C)

Borg.ar.175 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.184, Quran (17th C)

From the collection of the Colegii Urbani, given by Andrea Zmaievich, Archbishop of Montenegro (ex dono on f.2v). Possibly part of the same volume as Borg.ar.188 and Borg.ar.196

Borg.ar.185, Quran (18th C)

Volume 23 of 30

Borg.ar.186, Quran (18th C)

Borg.ar.187, Quran (17th C)

Volume 16 of 30

Borg.ar.188, Quran (18th C)

Borg.ar.189, Quran (18th C)

Volume 8 of 30

Borg.ar.190, Quran (16th-17th C)

Borg.ar.191, Quran (18th C)

From the collection of the Colegii Urbani, given by Andrea Zmaievich, Archbishop of Montenegro (ex dono on f.2v). Possibly part of the same volume as Borg.ar.192

Borg.ar.192, Quran (18th C)

From the collection of the Colegii Urbani, given by Andrea Zmaievich, Archbishop of Montenegro (ex dono on f.1v)Possibly part of the same volume as Borg.ar.191

Borg.ar.193, Quran (16th-17th C)

Borg.ar.194, Quran (17th C)

Volume 14 of 30

Borg.ar.195, Quran (18th C)

Volume 15 of 30

Borg.ar.196, Quran (18th C)

Possibly part of the same volume as Borg.ar.186 and Borg.ar.198

Borg.ar.197, Quran

Borg.ar.208, Quran (17th C)

Borg.ar.213

Borg.ar.215, Quran (17th C)

Borg.ar.217

Borg.ar.219 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.221

Borg.ar.228 (Upgraded to HQ), Nicon Raithuensis Kitāb al-ḥāwī (14th C)

This same work is sometimes known under the title Kitāb al-mustafād

Borg.ar.229, Nicon Raithuensis Kitāb al-ḥāwī (1342)

Also called the Kitāb al-mustafād

Borg.ar.230 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.232 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.250, Tatianus Diatessaron (16th C)

Borg.ar.253, Quran (18th-19th C)

Volume 30 of 30

Borg.ar.260 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.263, Quran (17th C)

Donated by Alexander Zmaievich, Archbishop Antibarensis

Borg.ar.265

Borg.ar.278 (Low Quality)

Borg.ar.279

Borg.arm.10, Pauli Piromalli, St. Athanasius, St. Gregory the Wonderworker, et al. Doctrina de Duabus Naturis in Christo, translated, etc (17th C)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 13-14

Borg.arm.18, Epistula Georgii doctoris Constantinopolitanii ad Sergium Lalfa, Canons of the Fifth Council of Constantinople (1735)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 22-23

Borg.arm.61, Lectionary (1268)

See Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 91-102

Borg.arm.65, Collection of works from the Monastery of John the Baptist (17th C-18th C)

See full contents listing in Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Conybeare, F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis)., Tisserant, E. (1927). Codices armeni Bybliothecae vaticanae Borgiani. Romae: Typis polyglottis vaticanis. pp. 104-108

Vatican Manuscripts from the Borgiani Arabi/Arabic Fond