Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, arab. 818

Germany, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, arab. 818

Averroes' Commentary onAvicenna's Cantica
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 106 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Western foliation; catchwords
  • Decoration:
    Avicenna 's verses are set in two columns. In the introduction the verses are separated by golden frames, later by red dots. On ff. 1v and 3v floral illuminations around the basmala. Headings in red. Body of text framed in gold or in red.
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one or two column(s).

    25 lines to the page.
  • Hand Description:
    One hand, nastaʿlīq script, black ink.
  • Binding Description:
    Binding with flap.
  • Provenance:
    F. 1r : Old owner entries and stamps.
    An adhesive label on f. x7 : Benjamin Duprat , Libraire de l' Institut de la Bibliothèque impériale etc., Langues et Littératures orientales, Paris , Cloître-Saint-Benoît, 7.
History
  • Origin Date: 1720-1 (1133 h.)
  • Origin Place: Iran or Turkey
  • Joseph Aumer , Die arabischen Handschriften der K. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in München, München (1866)
  • 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, p. 34, p. 47
Content
Averroes Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica 1v - 104v
  • Incipit:
    After some lines in prose: الثناء على الله تعالى وعلى رسوله صلغم [16 verses] الثناء على القاضى [37 verses] عرض الارجوزة [2 verses]
    قال القاضى الاجل ابو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد رحمه الله تعالى امّا بعد حمد الله المنعم بحيوة النفوس وصحة الاجسام الج ذكر قسمه الطب الطبّ حفظ صحة برء مرض | من سبب فى بدن مند عرض