Netherlands, Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 912

Miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 248 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available

Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Text n°1: Cantica-verses: red ink, commentary: black ink. The Urjūza is written in red, the commentary in black ink. Text n°4: Medical notebook: Symptoms in red, cures in black ink.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column.


  • Hand Description:
    Several hands (e.g. from f. 155r onwards), in naskh-script.
    Second copyist: dated 1575/1576 (983 h.) (f. 235r ).
    F. 236v : blank
  • Binding Description:
    Full-leather standard Library binding.
  • Acquisition:
    Acquisitions in the period between 1609 and 1665 .
  • Provenance:
    F. 2r : Red wax seal.
    On ff. 2r- 3r owners's notes: Muhammad al-Sadiq al-Husayni , "al-Tabib bi-Madinat Halab al-Shahba" and Muhammad b. Sayyid Sadiq al-Husayni , "al-Tabib bi-Halab" (with seal).
    This manuscript belongs to an acquisition of the Leiden University Library which comprised mainly the collections of Jacobus Golius ( 1629 ), Josephus Justus Scaliger ( 1609 ) and part of the collection of Levinus Warner ( 1665 ).
History
  • Origin Date: 1575/1576 (983 h.)
  • Origin Place: Syria (?)
  • Jan Just Witkam , Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden Vol. Vol. I (Or. 1 - Or. 1000), Leiden (2007) [Link]
  • Maurice Bouyges , Notes sur les philosophes arabes connus des Latins au Moyen Age: V. Inventaire des textes arabes d'Averroès, Beirut (1922) , pp. 3 - 54, pp. 33 f., p. 47
Content
Averroes Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica 3v - 235r
Anonymous Medical recipes 235r - 236r
Anonymous Notes of magico-medical content, on toothache and other subjects 237r - 237r
Anonymous Medical notebook 237v - 246v
Anonymous Procedure for amulet making with surat al-Nabaʾ (Qurʾān 78) 247r - 247r
Anonymous Magico-medical notes, with some drawings en jadawil 246v - 248r
Anonymous Note on Jiraha, surgery 248v - 248v