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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
With reference to my paper on the Apology of Al-Kindy, I have received the following letter from Professor Ignatius Guidi, dated Rome, 24th February:—
“You will he glad to hear that in the Propaganda Library (Museo Borgiani) I found a MS. of the Apology of Al-Kindî, together with the letter of his Moslem friend. The amanuensis was, I think, a Jacobite (the MS. is written in Karshuni character), hence he says (page 5, line 18 of the printed text):
The Roman MS. is apparently of the same family with the Paris MS. as described by Zotenberg, Catalogue des MSS. Syriaques de la Biblioth. Nationale, Nos. 204, 205.”
page 317 note 1 That is to say, the Moslem advocate is made to represent the Nestorian as the worst, and the Jacobite the best, form of the Christian religion. The Arabic MSS. reverse this statement, and make Al-Kindy a Nestorian, which no doubt he was.