Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian National Library, Ant. B. Imp. 124

Averroes' Colliget
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 161 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 300 x 230 mm
Detailed Description
  • Condition Description:
    The manuscript was restored and rebound in the mid of the 19th century
  • Decoration:
    Black ink Titles are given in a greater script, subtitles are written in Red
  • Layout:
    Text is set in one column

  • Hand Description:
    One hand, Maghribi script
    Lines were engraved with the help of a wooden strip
  • Acquisition:
    Tsar Alexander I purchased Dubrovski 's collection in 1805 for the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg which persisted from 1795 to 1917 and which is knwon as The National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg today.
  • Provenance:
    The manuscript was preserved in the context of a Jewish intellectuel field.
    Later on it came into the possession of Piotr Dubrovski ( 1755 - 1816 ), Russian ambassador to France in the time of the French Revoulution; it was presumably in Paris while this time that he acquired his important collection of manuscripts, among this about 150 copies in oriental languages. It was this collection which should become the foundation of the today division of manuscripts in The National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg .
History
  • Origin Date: October 9th, 1270 (Ṣafar 21st, 669 h.)
  • Origin Place: Western Islamic World
  • Ahmed Djebbar , L'âge d'or des sciences arabes. Exposition présentée à l'Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 25 octobre 2005-19 mars 2006, Paris (2005)
  • Bernhard Dorn , Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque Impériale Publique de St.-Pétersbourg, St. Petersburg (1852) [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
Content
Averroes Colliget x - x