From Medieval to Early Modern, from Christian to Muslim: Difficult Boundaries in the Arabic Gospels and Paul's Epistles of Biblioteca Nacional de España MS 4971 (Sixteenth-Century Spain).
This article analyzes the Arabic Gospels and Pauline Epistles of MS 4971 of Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid. One of six Gospel manuscripts related to the tenth-century Arabic translation of the Vulgate by the Cordoban Ishāq b. Balashk, MS 4971 is unique in several regards: it contains some of...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 26 - 51 |
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