Spain, Madrid, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 831
Averroes' Commentary onAvicenna'sCantica (including a fragmentary supplement)
Physical Description
Material: Paper
Pages: 60 leaves
Leaves Format:not available
Dimensions: 250 x 195 mm
Detailed Description
Collation:
At the end some pages are in disorder.
Layout:
33
to
35
lines to the page
Hand Description:
One hand, maghribī script
Scribe:
ʿUmar (or ʿAmr) b. ʿUthmān b. al-ʿAbbās al-Jarsīfī
of
Guercif
/
Morocco
Binding Description:
This manuscript was once bound together with Ms. El Escorial, 830; both manuscripts had the old signature "826". Ms. 830 contains fragments of
, the work of
Abū Naṣr Samauʾal b. [Abi l-Baqāʿ] Yaḥyā al-Maghribī al-Isrāʾilī
(d. after 580 h. / 1184-5). For more details see
Derenbourg
, p. 38.
Provenance:
According to
Cruz Hernández
this manuscript belonged to
Diego de Mendoz
.
History
Origin Date: 14th century
Origin Place: Morocco
Hartwig Derenbourg & Henri-Paul-Joseph Renaud ,
Les manuscrits arabes de l’Escurial, vol. 2, 2 (1941) , pp. 39 f.
[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
Miguel Cruz Hernández ,
Abū-l-Walīd Muhammad Ibn Rušd (Averroes). Vida, obra, pensamiento, influencia, Córdoba (1986)
Content
Averroes
Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica
1v - 60v
Incipit:
F.
1v
: الحمد لله الملك الواحد
F.
2r
: قال ... ابن رشد اما بعد حمد لله المنعم الخ
F.
2r
: ذكد قسم الطب، الطب حفظ صحة الخ
Note:
With introduction in prose as well as in verse; this introductory part of the text is lacking sometimes.
[Abū Mūsā] Harūn b. Isḥāḳ Ibn ʿAzrūn al-Isrā’ilī
Supplement to Avicenna 's Cantica (Fragments)
53r - 53v
Incipit:
F.
60r
: beginning الحمد لله العلى القادر
F.
57r
: 2nd faṣl القول فى حمى الدق
F.
58r
: part of 4th faṣl فى - الغب
F.
53r
: part of 6th and last faṣl فى علاج الاورام
Note:
Fragments in disorder; this poem was revised and commented several times in
Morocco
.
Spain, Madrid, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 831, meta data published by the Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE), URI: https://dare.uni-koeln.de/app/manuscripts/BOOK-DARE-M-ES-MAD-ESC-831