Turkey, Istanbul, Süleymaniye, 734

Averroes' treatise "The Incoherence of the Incoherence"
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 94 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 128 x 176 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    not numbered
  • Layout:


    21 lines to the page
  • Hand Description:
    One hand; the manuscript is written in Naskhī script (not always dotted; carried out in fine, elegant calligraphy), body of text: 72 x 119 mm.
    Scribe (information given on f. 1r at the top of the text (under the title)): Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafā ibn Khalīl ; this scribe can be identified with the scholar طاشكبرى زاده ( 1495 (901 h.) - 1561 (968 h.) ).
  • Provenance:
    Before becoming part of the waqf of Sultan Aḥmed III around 1724 (1137 h.) this manuscript had several previous owners, among which a certain …عىىد الله بن عىد الله ; this name is given with the date 1587-8 (996 h. - the date is written by another hand as the name itself). Another owner's name is that of احمد بن ابراهيم الكمالى , accompanied by the date 1703-4 (1115 h.) .
History
  • Origin Date: March 15th, 1537 (Monday, Ramaḍān 23rd, 943 h.)
  • Origin Place: Istanbul
  • Maurice Bouyges , Tahâfot at-Tahâfot ou "Incohérence de l'Incohérence" / Ibn Rushd, Beirut (1930) , pp. xiv f.
  • 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 The Incoherence of the Incoherence x - x
  • Note:
    The today lost copy which provided the textual basis of the Cairo edition of 1885 (1302-3 h.) can be traced back to this manuscript. Ms. Cambridge, University Library, Or. 165.8 is a copy of this manuscript, too. There are many mistakes in this manuscript which presumably go back to its textual model. This may also explain the textual loss of some bigger parts because at least two folia were already missing in its textual source.
  • Colophon:
    In the colophon, the date is mentioned.