Spain, Madrid, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 863

Avicenna's Cantica, another medical poem,Averroes' Commentary on the Cantica

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 51 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 207 x 155 mm

Detailed Description
  • Hand Description:
    Three hands, Oriental script
    Text n°1: 19 lines to the page
    Text n°2: 20 lines to the page
    Text n°3: 23 lines to the page
History
  • Origin Date: No date given
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Hartwig Derenbourg & Henri-Paul-Joseph Renaud , Les manuscrits arabes de l’Escurial, vol. 2, 2 (1941) , pp. 71 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
Content
Avicenna Cantica 2r - 41r
  • Note:
    Without Averroes ' commentary - even though after the introduction the respective title is given: قال الامام ... القاضي ابو الوليد بن رشد

Avicenna Another medical poem / urjūza (on prouved medicines / mujarrabāt) 42r - 44r
  • Incipit:
    بدأت بسم الله في نظم حسن

Averroes Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica 45v - 51r
  • Note:
    Deficient writing