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Decoration:
Text n°1: Cantica-verses: red ink, commentary: black ink. The Urjūza is written in red, the commentary in black ink. Text n°4: Medical notebook: Symptoms in red, cures in black ink.
Layout:
Text is set in one column.
Hand Description:
Several hands (e.g. from f. 155r onwards), in naskh-script.
Second copyist: dated 1575/1576 (983 h.) (f. 235r ).
F. 236v : blank
Binding Description:
Full-leather standard Library binding.
Acquisition:
Acquisitions in the period between 1609 and 1665 .
Provenance:
F. 2r : Red wax seal.
On ff. 2r- 3r owners's notes: Muhammad al-Sadiq al-Husayni , "al-Tabib bi-Madinat Halab al-Shahba" and Muhammad b. Sayyid Sadiq al-Husayni , "al-Tabib bi-Halab" (with seal).
This manuscript belongs to an acquisition of the Leiden University Library which comprised mainly the collections of Jacobus Golius ( 1629 ), Josephus Justus Scaliger ( 1609 ) and part of the collection of Levinus Warner ( 1665 ).

Jan Just Witkam , Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden Vol. Vol. I (Or. 1 - Or. 1000), Leiden (2007) [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, pp. 33 f., p. 47

Averroes	Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica	3v - 235r
Anonymous	Medical recipes	235r - 236r
Anonymous	Notes of magico-medical content, on toothache and other subjects	237r - 237r
Anonymous	Medical notebook	237v - 246v
Anonymous	Procedure for amulet making with surat al-Nabaʾ (Qurʾān 78)	247r - 247r
Anonymous	Magico-medical notes, with some drawings en jadawil	246v - 248r
Anonymous	Note on Jiraha, surgery	248v - 248v