Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Polemical

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Vallicelliana

Collection

Present shelfmark

N 36, fols. 73-118

Former shelfmark

Total pages

III, 43 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

118r-96r

Title on manuscript

Dialogus Arabicus Inter duos Maumetanos Pro Instructione Rudium In Impia Secta eorum

Title position

94r, 118v

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بسملة \ الحمد لمن منّ علينا بهداته وثبت الانبيأ بمعجزاته اما بعد يقول العبد الحقير المحتاج الي رحمة رب القدير احمد التنوسي لما انطلقت الي الحج مع قاقلة [كذا] المصر في سنة تسعمايه واربعين لاقيت في تلك المنازل شيخا

Incipit position

118r

Explicit

وعلي ما عون الالهي يعطني القوة عهدت انا اطاعتك لاني اعرف ان منها يعلق حلاصنا [كذا] لكى نقف بسم الله العظيم

Explicit position

96r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1560

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/559HTU6W/search/girard/titleCreatorYear/items/3QXKQ4RN/item-list

Descriptive card

This witness, not identified before, transmits the longer recension of the work, which includes an introduction mentioning that one of the two speakers is also the author (or pseudo-) and the date on which the dialogue took place. It is bound within a folder containing different texts and documents related to the Ottoman Empire, mostly related to Venice and its emissaries and diplomats, all produced between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th c. The folder is entitled "Memorie Istoriche Spettanti alli Turchi. Loro Imperatore, Sede Imperiale, Costumi, Potenza e Dominio". In the same folder, there are Italian translations of the text.

Entry author

Sara Fani