Germany, Göttingen, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Arab. 96

Germany, Göttingen, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Arab. 96

Averroes' Colliget (fragment)
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: III + 108 + II leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Modern Western foliation by pencil
  • Condition Description:
    Binding damaged
  • Decoration:
    Headings in a bigger and bolder script Black ink
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column.

    21 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand; Naskhī script indicating an Egypt origin; partly vocalization
  • Binding Description:
    Dammaged binding, cardboard, front and back inside cover with Ebru paper (ff. x1 and x10 ).
  • Acquisition:
    Bought in 1801 from the estate of Prof J. P. Berg , Duisburg .
  • Provenance:
    This manuscript once belonged to the Library of the Jesuit Collège Clermont (today Lycée Louis-le-Grand ) in Paris , see f. 1r below (faded): "Coll. Paris . socie[ta]tis Jesu". It must have been sold with other manuscripts in 1764 , see f. 108r : "Paraphé au desir de l’arrest du 5 Juillet 1763, Mesnil".
History
  • Origin Date: 15th / 16th c.
  • Origin Place: Egypt
  • N.N. , Die Handschriften in Göttingen. Nachlässe von Gelehrten, Orientalische Handschriften. Handschriften im Besitz von Instituten und Behörden. Register zu Band 1 - 3. (Verzeichniss der Handschriften im Preussischen Staate, 1, Hannover, 3) Vol. III, Berlin (1894)
  • Johann Christoph Bürgel , Averroes "contra Galenum": Das Kapitel von der Atmung Im Colliget des Averroes Als Ein Zeugnis Mittelalterlich-Islamischer Kritik an Galen, Göttingen (1967) , pp. 263 - 340
Content
Averroes Colliget 1r - 105v
  • Note:
    This text has been falsely attributed to ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Majūsī in the 1894 catalogue description (see f. x9 ).