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Short Commentaries ofAverroes
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 156 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 188 x 124 mm
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    Worm-holes, the last fol. is damaged.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column.

    21 lines to the page
  • Hand Description:
    One hand; Nastaʿlīq script; body of text: 140 x 72 mm
  • Acquisition:
    This collection was acquired by Princeton University Library in 1942 . This acquisition was possible thanks to two graduates of Princeton: Robert Garrett (Class of 1897 ) and his brother John W. Garrett (Class of 1895 ). A short account of this acquisition is given in the article of Philip K. Hitty . However, Princeton did not acquire the entire Yahuda -Collection of Islamic manuscripts. More details on the fate of this collection are described in the introduction of Mach 's catalogue (p. vii) .
  • Provenance:
    Mach dated this manuscript in the ; according to Puig , however, the manuscript was written in the .
    The manuscript originally belonged to Abraham Shalom Yahuda ( 1877 - 1952 ).
History
  • Origin Date: 16th/17th century
  • Origin Place: Iran
  • Rudolf Mach , Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section) in the Garrett Collection Princeton University Library, Princeton NJ (1977) [p. 254]
Content
Averroes Short Commentary on the Physics 1v - 33v
  • Note:
    The text of this treatise is preceded by:
    ... قال ... اما بعد حمد الله ... فان قصدنا فى هذا القول ان نعمد الى كتب ارسطو
Averroes Short Commentary on De Caelo 33v - 40r
Averroes Short Commentary on De Generatione et Corruptione 40r - 49r
Averroes Short Commentary on the Meteorology 49v - 78r
  • Explicit:
    In the colophon to the Meteorologica we read that the abridgement of the preceding books was completed by Averroes on 16th Rabīʿ al-awwal 554 h. ( 26.01.1109 ).
Averroes Short Commentary on De Anima 78r - 102v
Averroes Short Commentary on the Metaphysics 102v - 156r