Netherlands, Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 2075

Netherlands, Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 2075

Two works of Averroes
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 55 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 285 x 205 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    There are two modern foliations, both by pencil and in European numbers; one (in the upper edges left) covers the whole manuscript, the other (lower margin) is only given from f. 1r- 1v to f. 109r- 109v .
  • Collation:
    Two parts of different manuscripts (differences in writing and paper) were bound together. The second part originally belonged to the manuscript Leiden Or. 2074.
    Both parts are in disorder: the third maqāla of Item 1 is intercalated in maqāla 1 and 2; Item 2 is bound as follows: 35r- 42v ; 43r- 48v ; 49r ; 49v - 50r- 50v - 51r- 55v
    The text of f. 49v preceds the text of f. 49r .
  • Condition Description:
    In bad condition: the manuscript is damaged, parts have gone lost.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column

  • Hand Description:
    Two hands; text 2 is written in maghribī style, presumably by the same hand as part n°1 of Ms. Leiden Or. 2074
    Text 2: On average 33 lines to the page (31-36); body of text: 228 x 150 mm
  • Acquisition:
    Manuscripts registered in Leiden in the period between 1871 and 1833 .
  • Provenance:
    Witkam dated this manuscript as
    According to Witkam it is not known how the manuscript entered the Royal Library in The Hague , but it does also originate from the Library of the Jesuit Collège Clermont (today Lycée Louis-le-Grand ) in Paris , from where it was sold by arrest of July 5, 1763 .
History
  • Origin Date: Partly 13th (7th h.) century?
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Jan Just Witkam , Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden Vol. Vol. III (Or. 2001 - Or. 3000), Leiden (2008) [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
Content
Averroes Middle Commentary on De Caelo 1v - 34v
Averroes Long Commentary on the Metaphysics 35r - 55v
  • Note:
    This is a fragment of the unique manuscript whith the original Arabic text of the treatise which originally belonged to today Ms. Leiden 2074. It does not, however, complete all the the missing folios in Ms. Leiden Or. 2074.