Iran, Tehran, Kitābkhānah va Mūzih-i Millī-i Malik (Malek Institute of Library and National Museum), 533

Iran, Tehran, Kitābkhānah va Mūzih-i Millī-i Malik (Malek Institute of Library and National Museum), 533

Averroes' Middle Commentaries on the Organon (the first four books)
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 199 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Foliation on the verso-pages with pencil, partly etched and rather difficult to read
  • Condition Description:
    Good condition
  • Decoration:
    Black ink. Keywords, overlinings and some notes in the margin in red ink
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column

    20 lines to the page
  • Hand Description:
    One hand, in Nastaʿlīq script
    Name of scribe (f. 199r ): Bāqer ibn Sayyid ʿAlī Ḥuṣainī
    With catchwords on the lower margin of the verso-pages
  • Binding Description:
    Two covers (non of them seems to be the original one), each with flyleafs.
  • Provenance:
    Old owner stamp on f. 101v ; stamp of the library in the folds
History
  • Origin Date: February / March 1663 (Rajab 1073 h.)
  • Origin Place: Isfahan
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Prior Analytics x - 185r
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Categories 1r - 47r
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Interpretatione 47v - x
Averroes Middle Commentary on the Posterior Analytics 185v - 199v
  • Note:
    Incomplete in the end
  • Colophon:
    With name of scribe and date on f. 199r .