Turkey, Istanbul, Süleymaniye, 1582

Averroes' treatise "The Incoherence of the Incoherence"
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 145 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 145 x 217 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    not numbered
  • Condition Description:
    No trace of usage.
  • Layout:


    23 lines to the page
  • Hand Description:
    One hand; the manuscript is written in a script tending to Taʿlīq, body of text: 60 x 137 mm.
    Scribe (according to the colophon): a certain Mūsā ʿĪsā .
    The date "965 h." was corrected to "966 h.", the figure "5" being crossed out and replaced by "6".
  • Provenance:
    The manuscript includes the names of several owners: besides a certain مصطفى a person called محمد الطوسيوى is named, the last one together (added by another hand) with the date 1670-1 (1081 h.) . The hand, that added this last name, also gave the titel كتاب التهافت لابن الرشد on the recto of the flyleaf. Furthermore we find the stamp of the waqf of Grand-Vizier Shehīd ʿAlī Pasha (d. 1715-6 (1128 h.) ).
History
  • Origin Date: 1558-9 (966 h.)
  • Origin Place: Istanbul
  • Maurice Bouyges , Tahâfot at-Tahâfot ou "Incohérence de l'Incohérence" / Ibn Rushd, Beirut (1930) , pp. xv 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 1v - x
  • Note:
    Title added by a later hand on f. 1r : تهافت الفلاسفة لابن الرشد Many mistakes; a lot of variants regarding the text in other manuscripts.
  • Colophon:
    In the colophon, the scribe Mūsā ʿĪsā is mentioned; he declares having finished his work in Istanbul .