United Kingdom, Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Arabic 374

United Kingdom, Manchester, John Rylands University Library, Arabic 374

Averroes' Commentaries on the Analytica Priora and Posteriora
Physical Description
  • Material: not available
  • Pages: 95 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 202 x 128 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    No rubrications. Some phrases commented upon are overlined with a black stroke.
  • Layout:


    20 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand.
    The writing is an Indian Naskhi of about A.D. 1600.
  • Provenance:
    There are three red seals of some Indian libraries: the first is dated 1244/1828 and bears the name of سليمان جاه; the second is dated 1260/1844 and bears the name of مجد علي شاه زمان عاليخناب, with ornaments resembling a large crown; the third is dated 1263/1846 and bears the name of علي سلطان عالم, with ornaments resembling a small crown, together with the usual Persian inscription bearing the date 1262/1846. These three seals, accompanied by the usual librarian's entry, are found in the majority of the MSS. of the Hamilton collection.
History
  • Origin Date: No date given. Writing of about 1600.
  • Origin Place: India
  • Alphonse Mingana , Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester, Manchester (1934) , 608-610
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Prior Analytics 1r - 36r
  • Incipit:
    البيان بالدور كما قلنا في الصنف الاول من الشكل الاول وهو الذى ينتج الموجب الكلي اما الصنف السالب منه الج.
  • Explicit:
    فلم يمكن ان تبين بذلك فى غير الاسد انه شجاع كما انه لو لم ينعكس الاوسط على الاكبر لم يكن عظيم الاطراف علامة خاصة بالشجاعة وهنا انقضى تلخيص معاني هذا الكتاب وهو القياس.
  • Note:
    Mingana: The Commentator is not mentioned by name, but it is to be presumed that he was ابو نصر محمد بن محمد بن طرخان الفرابي, who died in 339/950.
    The MS. is imperfect at the beginning, and it seems that it has been in this state for over a century, since the numeration of the pages, and the notes inscribed as to the number of leaves in the book agree in showing that it is still as is was then
    Quotations from Aristotle are introduced by قال, but there is no اقول preceding Fārābi's commentary. The last قال is as follows: Fol. 35r: قال واما قياس الفراسة فانما يكون وجوده ممكنا عند من يسلم ان الج.
    This book of القياس is referred to in the following treatise, where we read (fol. 48r): لانه ليس يلزم عن وجود التالي وجود المقام على ما تبين في كتاب القياس.
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Posterior Analytics 36r - 95r
  • Incipit:
    قال كل تعلم فكرى فانما يكون بمعرفة متقدمة للمتعلم.
  • Note:
    Aristotle's work is divided into two maḳālahs, each preceded with a Basmalah. The first maḳālah is found on ff. 36-79, and the second on ff. 79-95.
    The second maḳālah, which bears the title of Aristotle's work, is entitled المقالة الثانية من تلخيص كتاب البرهان لارسطو.